Tale with a moral
The crossword clue "Tale with a moral" is answered by FABLE, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus.
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FABLE
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Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 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
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- Story with a moral - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale from Aesop - used 16 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
- Apologue - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Fill with joy - ELATE, used 232 times
- Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
- Moral principle - ETHIC, used 89 times
- Connect with - TIETO, used 87 times
- Go with the flow - ADAPT, used 77 times
- Moral code - ETHIC, used 75 times
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