A fisherman may spin one

The answer

TALE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TALE answer page.

Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TALE

Every other clue in this collection answered by TALE, most used first.

• Story - used 293 times, most recently in 2026
• Yarn - used 187 times, most recently in 2026
• Account - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Narrative - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• "Tall" story - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• "A ___ of Two Cities" - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Folk story - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Saga - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Fish story - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Bit of folklore - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Whopper - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
• Fable - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Story that might be "tall" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Chaucer offering - used 19 times, most recently in 2020
• Colorful story - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Falsehood - used 16 times, most recently in 2007
• Legend - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Raconteur's offering - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Chaucer chapter - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Conte - used 13 times, most recently in 1997
• Grimm story - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Handmaid's ___" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Chronicle - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• It may be tall - used 11 times, most recently in 2009
• Chaucer piece - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Fictional account - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Piece of gossip - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Uncle Remus offering - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Unlikely story - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Anecdote - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Fabrication - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Imaginary narrative - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Campfire story - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "Canterbury" story - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Fictional story - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Fireside yarn - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Narrative story - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Something to spin - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Bit of lore - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Bunch of baloney - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Cock-and-bull story - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "The Winter's ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Atwood's "The Handmaid's ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Cautionary ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Fairy ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Fairy story - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Fiction. - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Fictional piece - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• It may be spun - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• It's hard to believe - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Long story - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Myth - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Narration - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Spun yarn - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Story that may be tall - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Story told around the campfire - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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• From square one - ANEW, used 181 times
• Wise one - SAGE, used 146 times
• One - UNIT, used 118 times
• "Not guilty," for one - PLEA, used 117 times

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