Clues for the word "TALES"
We've had 142 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 348 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 30, 2025.
Definition of tales
- n. - Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.
- syntactically sing. - The writ by which such persons are summoned.
Referring Clues
- Yarns
- "The Canterbury ___"
- They're passed around campfires
- Raconteur's repertoire
- Sailors are famous for them
- They're made of whole cloth
- Lore
- Adventurer's stock
- Scheherazade's stock-in-trade
- Grimm collection
- Chaucer chapters
- Grimm works
- 47-Across and the like
- Spinners' output
- Canterbury collection
- Chaucer collection
- They can be spun
- Some Poe works
- Armistead Maupin's "___ of the City"
- Canterbury stories
- Stories by Chaucer
- "___ from the Crypt"
- Stories
- Whoppers
- Fabricated stories
- Accounts
- Narratives
- Some are tall
- Tall stories
- Long stories
- Beatrix Potter products
- Narrative stories
- "Tall" accounts
- Fishy stories
- Entertaining anecdotes
- Anecdotes
- "___ From the Vienna Woods" (Strauss)
- Raconteur's inventory
- Hawthorne's were told twice
- They may be passed around campfires
- Tattler's supply
- Imaginative accounts
- Fishy or fishing stories
- Canterbury units
- They're related
- "Twice-Told ___"
- Fairy stories
- "___ From the Vienna Woods" (Strauss)
- They may be related
- "Tall" accounts
- Whole cloth materials?
- They're cooked in corn husks
- They may be told by fishermen
- Spun things
- "The ___ of Hoffmann"
- Yarn material?
- Folksy accounts
- Bard's output
- Lamb's "___ From Shakespeare"
- Sagas
- They may be tall
- Folk stories
- Outlandish stories
- Accounts of Scheherazade
- Much lore
- Poe output
- Grimm stories
- Chaucer output
- Old wives' forte?
- People summoned to fill jury vacancies
- Fables
- Chaucerian stories
- Chaucer works
- Stories from Chaucer
- Chronicles
- Some Chaucer stories
- Things voyagers bring home
- Like salior's stories
- Old wives' output?
- "Tall" stories
- Tap options
- Contents of a Hawthorne collection
- "The Twilight Zone" episodes, e.g.
- Chaucer's claim to fame
- Campfire stories
- Grimm Brothers' collection
- "Canterbury" stories
- H. P. Lovecraft output
- Drinks supplied after end of short stories
- Stories least translated
- Fish stories
- Some Springsteen songs
- "Ten Summoner's ___" Sting
- Primus "___ From the Punchbowl"
- Tori Amos comp "___ of a Librarian"
- Lies
- Arctic Monkeys "Fake ___ of San Francisco"
- Some songs tell these
- See 15
- Shilling put back in old accounts
- Thanks to the French, we have fiction
- Thanks to the French, they're associated with Canterbury
- 21's clue to self-hate?
- As told in hospital, especially?
- Lies in legal writ
- Call heard for works of Hoffmann
- Grimm offerings
- Stories are cliched from beginning to end
- Stores with least circulation
- Least tangled yarns
- Stuff of legend
- The stories least edited
- Fanciful stories
- Falsehoods
- Romantic relations!
- Brothers Grimm offerings
- Gathering around a campfire?
- Follower of "Twice-Told" or "old wives'"
- Stories about slate
- Some are cautionary
- Chaucerian creations
- Loads of bunk
- Stories at a campfire
- Stories from the Grimms
- Some Poe writings
- Accounts for the said shadows
- Storyteller's repertoire
- Campfire exchange
- Thanks, boy, for the stories
- Stories of immortal essayists
- They’re related to campfire attendees
- Stories that may be "tall"
- Storybook contents
- Grimm accounts
- Chaucer pilgrims' offerings
- Many works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Padded accounts?
- "___ of the City" (novel series set in San Francisco)
- As told in hospital, especially?
- Bits of fiction
- Poe works
- Pranksters may have tall ones
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 30, 2025
- New York Times - October 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 22, 2025
- Daily American - October 12, 2025
- LA Times - September 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 16, 2025
- New York Times - July 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 02, 2025
- LA Times - June 24, 2025
- LA Times - June 20, 2025
- LA Times - May 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 26, 2025
- LA Times - March 09, 2025
- Daily American - March 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 21, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 18, 2025
- Daily American - January 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 07, 2025
- LA Times - December 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 05, 2024
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