"The Canterbury __"

The answer

TALES

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

Used 16 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 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
• 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
• 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.

• In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
• To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
• Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
• Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
• In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
• Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times

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