Unlikely story

The answer

TALE

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

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 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.

• YARN (5 uses in xd)
• TALLTALE (4 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
• 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
• A fisherman may spin one - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• 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
• 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

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
• "A likely story!" - IBET, used 102 times
• Story line - PLOT, used 89 times
• Sweeping story - EPIC, used 65 times
• Epic story - SAGA, used 48 times

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