Chaucer collection

The answer

TALES

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TALES answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; 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 clues for TALES

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

• Stories - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Yarns - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Accounts - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• "Tall" stories - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Canterbury __" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Narratives - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Adventurer's stock - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Folk stories - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ from the Crypt" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Narrative stories - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• "___ of Hoffmann" - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• Whoppers - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Fables - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Lore - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Some are tall - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Map collection - ATLAS, used 43 times
• Chaucer pilgrim - REEVE, used 24 times
• Collection of maps - ATLAS, used 22 times
• Valuable collection - TROVE, used 17 times
• Photo collection - ALBUM, used 15 times
• Cartography collection - ATLAS, used 9 times

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