- STORY
- Alibi
- Whodunit, e.g.
- Fifth or sixth, perhaps
- Yarn
- Bedtime request
- A bungalow has one
- Drudge Report link
- Globe piece
- Pre-bedtime ritual
- Plot line
- Newspaper piece
- It might involve a character assassination
- Edifice level
- Lie
- Floor
- Narrative
- One often ironically described as "likely"
- It's judged most important when it's in the lead
- Load of baloney
- ___ line (plot)
- Building floor
- Word after short or tall
- Tale
- See 56-Across
- Tall tale
- Newshound's pursuit
- News feature
- Child's bedtime reading
- Every picture tells one
- Skyscraper level
- Level
- Reporter's piece
- The dog ate it, for example
- Bedtime ritual for many children
- One of many in a skyscraper
- One is hidden in 17-, 27-, 47- and 63-Across
- It usually has less than 140 characters
- Anecdote
- Bedtime tale
- Fabrication
- Reporter's pursuit
- Short __
- Building level
- See 61-Across
- It may be long
- Stephen King work
- Account
- Apartment building unit
- Kid's bedtime request
- A likely __!
- Fairy tale
- Fairy tale, e.g.
- Toddler's bedtime demand
- Bit of fiction
- Bedtime reading
- Kid's bedtime ritual
- Stand-up bit
- Floor of a building
- Common film credit
- Newspaper article
- Floor level
- Bedtime reading to a tot
- Bedtime ritual for children.
- Distance covered by a flight
- Newspaper account.
- The Las Vegas ___.
- Any news article: Journalism.
- Bedtime desideratum.
- Reporter's goal.
- Parable.
- Report.
- Newsman's neverending quest.
- News article, in journalism.
- Tell me a ___.
- Anthology item.
- O. Henry specialty.
- Plot.
- See 13 Down.
- One kind of book.
- Legend.
- Narration.
- Ballad's usual basis.
- Short-short.
- Polite word for a falsehood
- Segal product
- News account
- See 35 Across
- Love ___
- News piece
- Azimov product
- Bedtime or second
- Short or second
- Sometimes tall item
- Tall or short
- O. Henry product
- Reporter's report
- Tall or short item
- Conte
- Work by O'Hara or O. Henry
- Saga
- This may be tall or short
- Welty product
- Layer
- Recital
- Bedtime ___
- Malamud product
- Lehman's "The Inside ___"
- Segal's "Oliver's ___"
- Excuse
- Hansel and Gretel, for one
- Child's bedtime treat
- See 27-Across
- Many a parent/child bedtime ritual
- End of a flight?
- Level ... or a three-word hint to 20-, 38- and 60-Across
- Likely ___!
- O. Henry work
- Campfire entertainment
- See 47-Across
- Child's request
- See 18-Across
- Alibi, say
- Part of a child's bedtime ritual
- Child's bedtime request
- Part of a child's bedtime routine, perhaps
- It may be tall
- Social D "___ of My Life"
- Rod Stewart "Every Picture Tells a ___"
- Level ... or a tale that's not level
- Toddler's bedtime request
- It can be just plain baloney
- Song and dance
- Building division
- Building part
- Novel idea
- Parent/child bedtime ritual
- It's one for the books
- Tot's bedtime request
- One for the books?
- Thing to tell at bedtime
- End of ___!
- West Side ___ (1957 musical)
- Level in a building
- Love ____
- A Christmas Carol, e.g.
- Bedtime recital
- Bedtime prolonger
- Word after tall or short
- It's a long ___
- Campfire recitation
- Reporter's submission
- Bunch of baloney
- Temporary Instagram post
- A likely ___! ("Doubtful!")
- Bedtime soporific
- Fish __ (whopper)
- Piece of paper?
- Erich Segal bestseller
- Newscast segment
- High-rise unit
- Skyscraper unit
- Woody vehicle?
