"Bedtime" tale
The crossword clue ""Bedtime" tale" is answered by STORY, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STORY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STORY answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for STORY
Every other clue in this collection answered by STORY, most used first.
- Tale - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Yarn - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Bedtime reading - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Bedtime request - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Building level - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
- Floor - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Narrative - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Alibi - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Account - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Novel idea - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Anecdote - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Newspaper article - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Bit of fiction - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Child's bedtime request - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Reporter's pursuit - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Fairy tale monsters - OGRES, used 46 times
- Fairy tale baddies - OGRES, used 27 times
- Tale tellers - LIARS, used 25 times
- Fairy tale villains - OGRES, used 18 times
- Late bedtime - ONEAM, used 16 times
- Tale from Aesop - FABLE, used 16 times
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