Fish story
The crossword clue "Fish story" is answered by TALE, a 4-letter entry. Used 36 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TALE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TALE answer page.
Used 36 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- TALLTALE (11 uses in xd)
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
- Bit of folklore - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Whopper - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Long story - SAGA, used 247 times
- It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
- Colorful fish - OPAH, used 112 times
- "A likely story!" - IBET, used 102 times
- Story line - PLOT, used 89 times
- Food fish - SHAD, used 86 times
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