TALE

Legend

• 'A ___ of Two Cities'

• 'The ___ of Despereaux' (2004 Newbery winner)

• 'The ___ of Genji' (11th-century Japanese novel)

• 'The Winter's ___' (Shakespeare comedy)

• A Bronx ___ (1993)

• A Knight's ___

• A Knight's ___ (2001)

• A Prairie Home Companion feature

• And the ___ of the bricks (Ex 5:8)

• Canterbury episode

• Canterbury story

• Decameron division

• Leatherstocking piece

• Metamorphoses component

• Peter Rabbit, for one

• Tall story

• The ___ of Genji

• The Gift of the Magi, e.g.

• The Handmaid's ___

• The Handmaid's ___ (Margaret Atwood novel)

• The Handmaid's ___ by Margaret Atwood

• The Handmaid's ___: Atwood novel

• The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, e.g.

• The Tell-___ Heart (Poe poem)

• The Winter's ___

• Thereby hangs a

• Treasure Island, e.g.

• Treasure Island, for one

• Treasure Island or Moby Dick

• VH1 Storyteller features

• A fisherman may bring one home

• A fisherman may spin one

• A fisherman might bring back a big one

• Account

• Account that joins words in seven of this puzzle's answers

• Adventure story.

• An account of incidents

• An intriguing yarn

• Andersen offering

• Anecdote

• Any Twilight Zone episode

• Any Poe story

• Atwood novel The Handmaid's ___

• Atwood's 'The Handmaid's ___'

• Ballad, often

• Bedside story

• Big lie

• Biggest part of a fish?

• Bit of fiction

• Bit of folklore

• Bit of gossip

• Bunch of baloney

• Bunch of bunk

• Campfire entertainment

• Campfire oration

• Campfire story

• Chaucer bit

• Chaucer chapter

• Chaucer creation

• Chaucer effort

• Chaucer offering

• Chaucer piece

• Chaucer product

• Chaucer selection

• Chaucer specialty

• Chaucer work

• Chaucerian account

• Chronicle

• Cock and bull story

• Collectible for a folklorist

• Colorful account

• Conte

• Dickens wrote one about two cities

• Disinformation

• Division of Chaucer's masterwork

• Don't believe it

• Doubtful story

• Dubious story

• Elaborate invention

• Fable

• Fable, e.g.

• Fabrication

• Fabricator's forte

• Fairy ___

• Fairy follower

• Fairy milieu

• Fairy or folk follower

• Fairy story

• False rumor

• Falsehood

• Fat Joe's Bronx ___

• Fiction

• Fictional account

• Fictional piece

• Fictional story

• Fireside recitation

• Fireside yam

• Fish story

• Fish story, e.g.

• Fisherman's offering?

• Fisherman's relation?

• Fisherman's story

• Fisherman's whopper?

• Fishing souvenir?

• Fishy yarn

• Folk item

• Folk or fairy follower

• Folk story

• Folklore component

• Folklore tidbit

• Folklorist's recital

• Folksy account

• Full amount

• Ghost story, e.g.

• Grimm account

• Grimm offering

• Grimm story

• Grimm work

• Hard-to-believe story

• Hoary story

• Hoffmann creation

• Hoffmann offering

• Hoffmann product

• I>Peter RabbitI>, e.g.

• Idiot's offering?

• If it's tall, it might not fly

• Imaginary narrative

• It can be spun

• It can be tall

• It may be hard to believe

• It may be hard to swallow

• It may be related to you

• It may be shared over a campfire

• It may be spun around a campfire

• It may be spun at sea

• It may be supernatural

• It may be tall and short at the same time

• It may be tall or belong to The Handmaid

• It may be tall or spun

• It may be twice-told

• It might be tall

• It might be tall or sordid

• It's hard to believe

• It's often tall and sometimes hangs

• It's related

• It's related to others

• It's spun

• It's tall when exaggerated

• Kind of bearer

• Lamb product

• LATE story, unscrambled?

• Liar's forte

• Lie

• Load of bunk

• Long story

• Malamud product

• Malicious rumor

• Mariner's yarn

• Maupin effort

• Myth

• Narative

• Narrated yarn

• Narration

• Narrative story

• Narrator's words

• O. Henry offering

• O. Henry product

• O'Flaherty product

• Old wives' ___

• Old wives' production

• One can be tall

• One involves Two Cities

• One might be hard to believe

• One might be tall

• Output from Washington Irving

• Parable or fable

• Paul Bunyan account

• Piece of gossip

• Poe offering

• Poe piece

• Poe piece, typically

• Poe product

• Poe story, e.g.

• Poe work

• Poe writing

• Queen A Winter's ___

• Questionable account

• Raconteur's delivery

• Raconteur's offering

• Raconteur's specialty

• Reading matter

• Recital of events

• Recitation by Scheherazade

• Related thing

• Rock and roll myth

• Romance

• Romance, e.g.

• Romance, perhaps

• Rumor

• Saga

• Saga, e.g.

• Sailor's tall one

• Scheherazade offering

• Scheherazade specialty

• Scheherazade's lifesaver

• Scheherazade's recital

• Scherezade specialty

• Sci-fi or whodunit, e.g.

• Second word of a Dickens title

• Shaggy-dog story

• Skakespeare's The Winter's ___

• Slow story

• Snow job

• Some story

• Something passed on from an old wife?

• Something related

• Something spun

• Something that's related

• Something that's spun

• Something to spin

• Something to weave

• Something told

• Sometimes it's sad

• Spellbinder

• Spinner's yarn

• Spun thing

• Spun yarn

• Story

• Story by Chaucer

• Story that may be tall

• Story to tell

• Story told around the campfire

• Story told at a campfire

• Storybook chapter

• Storybook offering

• Storybook story

• Suspicious story

• Tall one?

• Tall or fairy follower

• Tall thing

• Tall writing?

• Taradiddle

• Tattle follower

• Tattle tail

• Tattler's story

• The story of the one that got away, e.g.

• This could become late

• This could become late if mixed up

• Uncle Remus offering

• Unlikely story

• Welty product

• What a fisherman may bring home

• Whopper

• Wife of Bath's offering

• Woolly yarn

• Word after A in a Dickens title

• Word after fairy or folk

• Word after fairy or tall

• Word in a Dickens title

• Word in an Atwood novel title

• Word with folk or tall

• Word with fairy or tall

• Word with folk or fairy

• Writing of Chaucer

• Yam

• Yarn from a pirate

• Yarn from an old pirate

• Yarn that is spun

• An account describing incidents or events

• A trivial lie