- TALE
- A ___ of Two Cities
- Fabrication
- It may be tall
- Myth
- Account
- Bunch of baloney
- Chaucer specialty
- Fictional story
- Fireside yam
- Fish story
- Cock and bull story
- Fable
- Questionable account
- Yarn
- Some are tall
- Story
- It might be tall
- Unlikely story
- Grimm story
- The Bard's ___
- Fairy ___
- It may be shared over a campfire
- Spun yarn
- Fairy story
- Campfire staple
- Lie
- Fibber's creation
- Scheherazade's story
- Fictional account
- Narrative
- Whopper
- Storybook chapter
- Campfire oration
- Raconteur's offering
- Poe offering
- Raconteur's specialty
- Raconteur's delivery
- The Handmaid's ___ (Margaret Atwood novel)
- Chaucer chapter
- The ___ of Genji (11th-century Japanese novel)
- Atwood's "The Handmaid's ___"
- Word in a Dickens title
- The ___ of Despereaux (2004 Newbery winner)
- Beatrix Potter work
- Division of Chaucer's masterwork
- Offering at a campfire, maybe
- It's not to be believed
- It's unbelievable
- Many a fish story
- Tall or fairy follower
- It's hard to believe
- Chaucer selection
- Folk or fairy follower
- Chaucer piece
- Homonym of 53-Down
- Tattler's story
- Falsehood
- Something related
- Story told around the campfire
- Bedtime story
- Chaucer offering
- It may be hard to believe
- Part of Scheherazade's repertoire
- Maupin story of the city
- Word after fairy or folk
- Canterbury episode
- Fishy yarn
- Grimm work
- Uncle Remus offering
- Wife of Bath's offering
- Tall story
- Yarn that is spun
- Story by Chaucer
- Andersen offering
- Bit of folklore
- Folklore tidbit
- Liar's forte
- Chronicle
- Fairy follower
- Folksy account
- Campfire story
- Collectible for a folklorist
- It may be twice-told
- Account hidden inside 17-, 35-, and 53-Across
- Snow job
- Spinner's yarn
- The ___ of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter book)
- Adventure story
- Chaucer creation
- Item in the Grimm brothers' collection
- Narrator's offering
- It's always related
- Narrated yarn
- Novel presentation?
- It may be spun
- A ____of Two Cities
- Saga
- Tattle follower
- Bedside story
- Hoffmann product
- Malicious rumor
- Narative
- Old wives' ___
- Yam
- Tall one?
- Dickens wrote one about two cities
- Folk story
- Grimm offering
- Canterbury story
- Metamorphoses component
- Dubious story
- Narration
- Fabricator's forte
- It may be hard to swallow
- Elaborate invention
- One might be tall
- Ghost story, e.g.
- Fishing souvenir?
- One might be hard to believe
- The Gift of the Magi, e.g.
- The Handmaid's __: Atwood novel
- A __ of Two Cities
- Grimm account
- Shakespeare's "The Winter's __"
- See 98-Down
- It may be cautionary
- Cautionary account
- Beatrix Potter's "The __ of Peter Rabbit"
- Cooper work
- Tall __
- It is a __ told by an idiot: Macbeth
- A fisherman may spin one
- Fabulist's work
- It may be a tall one
- One shared at a campfire
- Yarn relative
- See 124-Across
- I caught a fish thiiiiis big, e.g.
- Cautionary __
- Unbelievable story
- Long story
- Scheherazade offering
- What a fisherman may bring home
- Shaggy-dog story
- Tall thing
- Something spun
- Extended account
- Narrative story
- Fairy or folk follower
- Folklorist's recital
- Hoffmann offering
- Poe product
- The Winter's __
- Story to tell
- False rumor
- Piece of gossip
- Yarn that's spun
- Bit of fiction
- Questionable story
- With 32 Across, pity party elicitor
- Wild story
- Colorful story
- Folklore sample
- It might be hair-raising
- Story that might be tall
- Chaucer concoction
- Improbable concoction
- Chaucer story
- Folk __
- Narrated story
- Storybook story
- Gripping recounting
- Kind of account
- Story that may be "tall"
- Chaucerian subdivision.
- Scheherazade specialty.
- Tall yarn
- Chaucerian excerpt
- Gossipy report
- Sample of folklore
- See 51 Down
- Story that's often "tall"
- Chaucer narrative
- Parable or fable
- Hidden theme of the puzzle
- See 35 Across
- See 69 Across
- Yarn woven orally
- Legend
- Mariner's yarn
- Romance
- See 43-Across
- Woolly yarn
- The Winter's ___ (Shakespeare comedy)
- Hoary story
- The Winter's ___
- Storybook offering
- ___ of a Tub.—Dean Swift.
- Conte.
- Dean Swift's "___ of a Tub."
- Libelous report.
- Told by Mr. I. Magination.
- Cinderella, for instance.
- Fiction.
- Recital.
- Something told.
- Relation.
- Gossip's report.
- Word in a Shakespeare title.
- Wife of Bath's story.
- Idle talk.
- Reader's choice.
- The Wife of Bath's ___.
- A fiction.
- Reading matter.
- Untrue report.
- Canterbury item.
- A Winter's ___
- Thereby hangs a ___
- Rumor
- Fib
- Chaucerian account
- Swift's tub opus
- ___ of woe
- Canterbury offering
- Chaucer unit
- Tall ___
- Wayside Inn fare
- ___ bearer
- Bit of gossip
- Decameron unit
- Libelous account
- . . . a ___ told by an idiot . . .
- A likely story
- Fibber's forte
- Anecdote
- Apologue, e.g.
- Chaucerian form
- Isak Dinesen product
- Shakespearean hanger
- A Christmas Carol is one
- Chaucer's "The Miller's ___"
- Hawthorne creation
- Chaucerian unit
- Dinesen offering
- O. Henry offering
- Tall follower
- Dinesen product
- Ship of Fools, e.g.
- Hand-me-down, sometimes
- Lie, perhaps
- Hawthorne offering
- Poe specialty
- I woud a ___ unfold . . . : Shak.
- Fable, e.g.
- Falsehood, sometimes
- Malamud product
- O. Henry product
- I could a ___ unfold . . . : Shak.
- Asimov product
- Hawthorne product
- Full amount
- Lamb product
- Welty product
- Chaucer product
- Kind of bearer
- Märchen
- O'Flaherty product
- Slow story
- Anagram for teal
- Tattle tail
- Two cities' story
- Leatherstocking piece
- Doubtful story
- Tall writing?
- Peter Rabbit, for one
- Paul Bunyan account
- Scheherazade's recital
- Sailor's tall one
- Suspicious story
- Some story
- Ballad, often
- Fisherman's offering?
- Poe writing
- Don't believe it
- It may be spun at sea
- A fisherman may bring one home
- It's tall when exaggerated
- Big lie
- Spellbinder
- Any "Twilight Zone" episode
- It's related
- Load of bunk
- Romance, e.g.
- Romance, perhaps
- Scheherazade's lifesaver
- Something that's spun
- Writing of Chaucer
- Any Poe story
- It may be spun around a campfire
- Something to spin
- Hard-to-believe story
- It may be supernatural
- A fisherman might bring back a big one
- Fisherman's story
- Output from Washington Irving
- Treasure Island, e.g.
- Fisherman's whopper?
- Poe story, e.g.
- Related thing
- Treasure Island, for one
- Fireside recitation
- Recitation by Scheherazade
- Something to weave
- Fisherman's relation?
- Something that's related
- 88-Across, for one
- It's often handed down
- One can be tall
- It might be spun around a campfire
- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, e.g.
- Account from Scheherazade
- Bit of campfire entertainment
- Minstrel's offering
- Offering from the Brothers Grimm
- See 47-Across
- Something not to be believed
- Woven piece
- Parable or allegory
- That's some story
- The Twilight Zone episode, usually
- It may be recounted
- Shakespeare's "The Winter's ___"
- What a fisherman might bring home even if he doesn't catch any fish
- Whodunit, e.g.
- Made-up story
- A tall one is exaggerated
- Food cooked in a cornhusk
- Urban legend, e.g.
- Word after tall or tell
- Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer
- One of 24 in a Chaucer book
- Something that can be spun
- Hoffmann creation
- Biggest part of a fish?
- Saga, e.g.
- Chaucer bit
- Parable, e.g.
- Rock and roll myth
- VH1 Storyteller features
- Queen "A Winter's ___"
- Sting might tell a "Summoner's" one
- Arctic Monkeys might tell a "Fake" one of San Francisco!
- Cream might tell one of "Brave Ulysses"
- Primus might tell one "From the Punchbowl"
- Sting song, often
- Story that sounds like an ending
- Second word of a Dickens title
- First word of Celine Dion's "Beauty and the Beast"
- The ___ of Peter Rabbit
- It may be related to you
- Folk item
- Imaginary narrative
- It may be tall or belong to "The Handmaid"
- Recital of events
- Sci-fi or whodunit, e.g.
- Fictional piece
- Folklore component
- Taradiddle
- The story of the one that got away, e.g.
- Word with fairy or tall
- It may be tall or spun
- This could become late if mixed-up
- Atwood novel "The Handmaid's _____"
- Atwood's "The Handmaid's _____"
- Fairy milieu
- Bunch of bunk
- Word with folk or fairy
- Fish story, e.g.
- The Handmaid's ___
- A Knight's ___ (2001)
- Fireside yarn
- It can be spun
- Word with "folk" or "tall"
- Yarn from an old pirate
- An intriguing yarn
- Old wives' production
- Something to weave or spin
- Account of incidents
- Account of incidents or events
- Fictional narrative
- An angler may spin one
- Angler's account
- Minstrel's recitation
- Charming story
- Fanciful story
- Something a sailor spins
- Tall ___ (yarn)
- Piece of lore
- Fairy-___ romance
- Word after "tall" or "fairy"
- Brothers Grimm story
- Piece of folklore
- Word after "tell" or "tall"
- The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, e.g.
- The Mirror of Matsuyama, for one
- Story that might be "cautionary"
- Fairy-___ ending
- Yarn you can't knit with
- Atwood's The Handmaid's ____
- Part of 54 Across
- It can be tall
- Sometimes it's sad
- A Prairie Home Companion feature
- <I>Peter Rabbit<I>, e.g.
- See 29 Across
- This could become late
- Word in an Atwood novel title
- An account of incidents
- Something passed on from an old wife?
- Campfire entertainment
- Yarn from a pirate
- A fisher may spin one
- Relative of 1-Across
- When twisted, it could become late
- Load of baloney
- Many a Poe work
- Brothers Grimm offering
- Offering from Chaucer's miller or cook
- Story that's "spun"
- Chaucer work
- Folklorist's account
- Folklorist's story
- Part of a literary anthology
- Part of an anthology
- Tall account
- Folksy narrative
- Folksy story
- Woeful story, perhaps
- Bit of 2-Down
- Cautionary ___
- The Green Frogs, for example
- Bit of lore
- Cautionary story
- ___ as old as time . . .
- Bunch of 93 Down
- Narrator's words
- Poe work
- It's spun
- Account that joins words in seven of this puzzle's answers
- Invented account
- Colorful account
- One may be related to you
- Account that might earn interest
- It might be related
- Storybook entry
- Teller's offering