TALE is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for TALE in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "TALE" answer was first appeared in "10 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Chaucer piece (4)". It was authored by Alex K. Justin. Recently, the "TALE" answer has been used for "4 Oct 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Story or mosaic piece". It was authored by Gary Larson. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Account (9)". "TALE" appeared 161 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "TALE" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2023 | 19A | Story or mosaic piece | Gary Larson |
| 26 Sep 2023 | 16A | Urban legend, e.g. | Shannon Rapp and Rebecca Goldstein |
| 11 Sep 2023 | 60A | Word after tall or tell | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| 10 Sep 2023 | 24D | Related thing | Adam Wagner |
| 21 Jul 2023 | 10A | Account | Robyn Weintraub |
| 24 Jun 2023 | 45A | Bit of fiction | Spencer Leach and Quiara Vasquez |
| 28 Jul 2022 | 56D | Chaucer chapter | Bill Pipal and Jeff Chen |
| 17 Jul 2022 | 7D | Yarn | Greg Slovacek |
| 3 Jun 2022 | 7D | Chronicle | Robyn Weintraub |
| 11 Feb 2022 | 31A | Account | Trenton Charlson |
| 26 Dec 2021 | 38D | Parable or allegory | Christina Iverson |
| 12 Dec 2021 | 5A | Grimm account | Daniel Okulitch and Doug Peterson |
| 18 Aug 2021 | 70A | Yarn | Alina Abidi |
| 8 Apr 2021 | 56D | That’s some story | Jake Halperin |
| 5 Mar 2021 | 8D | Account | Sridhar Bhagavathula |
| 12 Dec 2020 | 62A | Fairy ___ | Sid Sivakumar and Brooke Husic |
| 23 Apr 2020 | 35D | Account | Yacob Yonas and Erik Agard |
| 7 Apr 2020 | 10A | A tall one is exaggerated | Trent H. Evans |
| 27 Oct 2019 | 109D | Yarn | Michael Paleos |
| 4 Jun 2019 | 15A | Made-up story | Jake Halperin |
| 19 Nov 2018 | 12D | Story | Jim Hilger |
| 14 Aug 2018 | 36D | “A ___ of Two Cities” | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| 19 Jul 2018 | 61D | Whodunit, e.g. | Mike Knobler |
| 16 Jul 2018 | 15A | What a fisherman might bring home even if he doesn’t catch any fish | Erik Agard |
| 9 Jun 2018 | 20A | Account | Roland Huget |
| 16 Feb 2018 | 8D | Something to spin | David Steinberg |
| 15 Aug 2017 | 35D | Fish story | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 26 Jun 2017 | 5D | Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s ___” | Brian Greer |
| 27 Nov 2016 | 92A | Yarn | Matt Ginsberg |
| 2 Aug 2016 | 61A | Chaucer offering | Paula Gamache |
| 26 Jun 2016 | 83A | It may be recounted | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen |
| 14 Jun 2016 | 57A | Fish story | Tracy Gray |
| 23 Apr 2016 | 53D | “The Twilight Zone” episode, usually | Paolo Pasco |
| 21 Oct 2015 | 32A | See 47-Across | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| 7 Oct 2015 | 21A | Bit of campfire entertainment | Julian Lim |
| 26 Sep 2015 | 1A | Related thing | David Woolf |
| 25 Jul 2015 | 24A | Minstrel’s offering | Kevin G. Der |
| 7 Jul 2015 | 18A | Account from Scheherazade | Daniel Raymon |
| 20 May 2015 | 32D | Chaucer piece | Jacob Stulberg |
| 26 Feb 2015 | 35A | Woven piece | Caleb Emmons |
| 18 Feb 2015 | 37D | Campfire story | Ed Sessa |
| 9 Feb 2015 | 24D | Offering from the Brothers Grimm | Lynn Lempel |
| 17 Jan 2015 | 53A | Something not to be believed | Josh Knapp |
| 23 Nov 2014 | 28A | Yarn | Patrick Berry |
| 20 Mar 2014 | 1A | “Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox,” e.g. | Victor Barocas |
| 8 Sep 2013 | 63A | Relation? | Pete Muller and Sue Keefer |
| 17 Jul 2013 | 25A | Fish story | Robyn Weintraub |
| 26 Apr 2013 | 46A | It might be spun around a campfire | Michael Ashley |
| 8 Dec 2012 | 10D | It’s often handed down | Barry C. Silk |
| 26 Nov 2012 | 57D | Scheherazade offering | Ed Sessa |
| 17 Apr 2012 | 68A | Poe writing | Milo Beckman |
| 18 Mar 2012 | 65D | 88-Across, for one | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| 17 Jan 2012 | 17A | Dickens wrote one about two cities | Elizabeth A. Long |
| 6 Jan 2012 | 44A | One can be tall | David Steinberg |
| 22 Sep 2011 | 27D | Fisherman’s relation? | Jeff Dubner |
| 25 Feb 2011 | 45D | Account | Henry Hook |
| 11 Feb 2011 | 2D | Something that’s related | Adam Cohen |
| 21 Nov 2010 | 28D | Chaucer piece | Clive Probert |
| 19 Nov 2010 | 49D | Something to weave | Victor Fleming |
| 22 Aug 2010 | 104A | Recitation by Scheherazade | Patrick Berry |
| 10 Jun 2010 | 54D | Something that’s spun | Mike Nothnagel |
| 9 Feb 2010 | 64A | “Treasure Island,” for one | Robert Cirillo |
| 7 Feb 2010 | 112D | Fireside recitation | Patrick Berry |
| 11 Apr 2009 | 5D | Related thing | Karen M. Tracey |
| 26 Nov 2008 | 32D | Fisherman’s whopper? | Harvey Estes |
| 25 Nov 2008 | 15A | “Treasure Island,” e.g. | Caleb Madison |
| 15 Sep 2008 | 70A | Poe story, e.g. | Sharon E. Petersen |
| 20 May 2008 | 60A | Tall story | Billie Truitt |
| 15 Mar 2008 | 50A | Romance, e.g. | David Quarfoot |
| 7 Jun 2007 | 63A | Something that’s spun | Nancy Salomon |
| 15 Mar 2007 | 35D | Output from Washington Irving | Michael Shteyman |
| 20 Feb 2007 | 3D | Legend | Jonathan Gersch |
| 4 Sep 2006 | 2D | A fisherman might bring back a big one | Mike Nothnagel |
| 29 Aug 2006 | 6D | Something to spin | David Pringle |
| 24 Aug 2006 | 12A | Falsehood | Gary Steinmehl |
| 5 Mar 2006 | 112D | Yarn | Ashish Madhukar Vengsarkar |
| 15 Feb 2006 | 34A | Fisherman’s story | Byron Walden |
| 5 Sep 2005 | 55D | Chronicle | Lynn Lempel |
| 18 May 2005 | 16A | It may be supernatural | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 9 May 2005 | 3D | Hard-to-believe story | Jim Hyres |
| 1 May 2005 | 23A | Account | Joe DiPietro |
| 30 Mar 2005 | 58A | Poe product | Richard Silvestri |
| 31 Jan 2005 | 62D | Story | Randall J. Hartman |
| 27 Oct 2004 | 9D | Story | Nathaniel Weiss |
| 14 Sep 2004 | 15A | Chaucer offering | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| 29 Dec 2003 | 11D | Fable | Gregory E. Paul |
| 14 Dec 2003 | 73A | “The Gift of the Magi,” e.g. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 12 Nov 2003 | 33A | Something to spin | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 18 Aug 2003 | 35D | Narrative | Ed Early |
| 31 Jul 2003 | 3D | Grimm offering | Paula Gamache |
| 23 Jul 2003 | 12D | Raconteur’s offering | Ed Early |
| 15 Jun 2003 | 82A | Uncle Remus offering | Cathy Millhauser |
| 26 May 2003 | 70A | Any Poe story | Lynn Lempel |
| 29 Apr 2003 | 11D | It may be spun around a campfire | Norma Johnson |
| 24 Apr 2003 | 15A | Whopper | Paula Gamache |
| 17 Dec 2002 | 28A | Load of bunk | Tyler Hinman |
| 14 Dec 2002 | 52D | Romance, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| 9 Dec 2002 | 41D | It may be tall | Sarah Keller |
| 3 Nov 2002 | 103D | Any “Twilight Zone” episode | Patrick Berry |
| 27 Oct 2002 | 56A | It’s related | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 20 Sep 2002 | 29A | Something that’s spun | Kevin Hagen |
| 8 Jul 2002 | 62A | Writing of Chaucer | Sheldon Benardo |
| 31 May 2002 | 42A | Scheherazade’s lifesaver | Patrick Berry |
| 24 Mar 2002 | 28A | Whopper | Con Pederson |
| 3 Mar 2002 | 45D | Romance, perhaps | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 21 Feb 2002 | 50D | Yarn that is spun | Peter Gordon |
| 2 Dec 2001 | 44D | Something spun | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 3 Oct 2001 | 36A | Raconteur’s offering | Lisa Bunker |
| 31 Aug 2001 | 50D | Yarn | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 15 Jul 2001 | 61A | Whopper | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 4 Jun 2001 | 55D | Chaucer piece | Patrick Jordan |
| 15 Apr 2001 | 67D | Big lie | Richard Silvestri |
| 2 Apr 2001 | 54D | Tall story | Peter Gordon |
| 26 Mar 2001 | 16A | Spellbinder | Gregory E. Paul |
| 23 Oct 2000 | 61A | A fisherman may spin one | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg |
| 22 Oct 2000 | 28A | Wife of Bath’s offering | Henry Hook |
| 30 Jul 2000 | 75A | It’s tall when exaggerated | Randolph Ross |
| 17 Jul 2000 | 61A | It’s hard to believe | Mitch Komro |
| 16 Jul 2000 | 67D | Rumor | David J. Kahn |
| 3 May 2000 | 59D | Whopper | Nancy Salomon |
| 29 Feb 2000 | 51D | A fisherman may bring one home | Peter Gordon |
| 12 Feb 2000 | 60A | Account | Dave Tuller |
| 28 Dec 1999 | 52D | Whopper | Randall J. Hartman |
| 4 Aug 1999 | 72A | Scheherazade specialty | Richard Silvestri |
| 20 Jul 1999 | 63A | It may be spun at sea | Joy L. Wouk |
| 23 Mar 1999 | 53D | It may be spun | Nathaniel Weiss |
| 6 Mar 1999 | 56D | Don’t believe it | Fred Piscop |
| 23 Feb 1999 | 57A | Yarn | Robert Zimmerman |
| 30 Nov 1998 | 23A | A fisherman may spin one | Cynthia Joy Higgins |
| 23 Oct 1998 | 46A | Woolly yarn | Manny Nosowsky |
| 9 Oct 1998 | 62A | Ballad, often | Cathy Millhauser |
| 14 Sep 1998 | 51D | Saga | Gregory E. Paul |
| 4 Aug 1998 | 17A | Poe writing | Janet R. Bender |
| 6 Jan 1998 | 16A | Fisherman’s offering? | Ed Early |
| 24 Dec 1997 | 65A | Yarn | Nancy S. Ross |
| 25 Oct 1997 | 42A | It’s hard to believe | John Scott Marrone |
| 5 Sep 1997 | 46D | Scheherazade specialty | Harvey Estes |
| 26 Aug 1997 | 2D | Saga | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| 16 Jul 1997 | 20D | Myth | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| 27 Jun 1997 | 16A | Account | Dean Niles |
| 29 May 1997 | 59A | Some story | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| 3 Nov 1996 | 4D | “Peter Rabbit,” for one | M. Nosowsky |
| 25 Aug 1996 | 9D | Spun yarn | R. Silvestri |
| 22 Jul 1996 | 18A | Sailor’s tall one | S. L. Robbins |
| 16 Jul 1996 | 52D | Suspicious story | R. Hamel |
| 27 Jun 1996 | 23A | Saga | R. Norris |
| 11 Mar 1996 | 14A | Story | R. Zimmerman |
| 23 Aug 1995 | 23D | It’s hard to believe | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| 7 Aug 1995 | 12D | Paul Bunyan account | Sidney L. Robbins |
| 16 Jul 1995 | 138D | “Peter Rabbit,” for one | Naomi Geller Lipsky |
| 30 Jun 1995 | 8D | Whopper | Rich Norris |
| 24 May 1995 | 12D | Whopper | Wayne Robert Williams |
| 9 Mar 1995 | 14A | Whopper | Alex Vaughn |
| 19 Feb 1995 | 39D | It’s hard to believe | Alfio Micci |
| 29 Jan 1995 | 86D | Scheherazade’s recital | Bryant White |
| 16 Dec 1994 | 9A | Falsehood | A.J. Santora |
| 12 Oct 1994 | 58D | Yarn | Gregory E. Paul |
| 24 Aug 1994 | 24A | Doubtful story | Robert Herrig |
| 1 Feb 1994 | 18D | Tall writing? | Robert Zimmerman |
| 26 Dec 1993 | 24A | Yarn | Tom Underhill |
| 10 Dec 1993 | 53D | Chaucer piece | Alex K. Justin |
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