Fables
The crossword clue "Fables" is answered by TALES, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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 1952. 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.
- ESOPS (1 uses in xd)
- TALLTALES (1 uses in xd)
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
- Chaucer collection - 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.
- Source of ancient fables - AESOP, used 20 times
- Man of fables - AESOP, used 14 times
- Greek writer of fables - AESOP, used 10 times
- Famous font of fables - AESOP, used 8 times
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