Apologue
The crossword clue "Apologue" is answered by FABLE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FABLE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FABLE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FABLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by FABLE, most used first.
- Story with a moral - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale from Aesop - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale with a moral - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Story from Aesop - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale with a point - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Aesop story - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Aesop tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Aesopian tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- "The Fox and the Grapes," e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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