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Word "ALLEGORY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Synonyms:
apologue, fable, parable

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
Synonyms:
emblem

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

Crossword Clues for ALLEGORY

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Plato's cave, e.g. The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 21 Aug 2025
Artwork in which the characters and events are symbols of something else (8)
Narrative with broader message (8) The Guardian Quick 10 Jul 2025
Narrative with a hidden moral/meaning (8)
Everyone takes direction on gory but symbolic story (8)
Tale with a lesson Eugene Sheffer 13 May 2025
Really go round in parable (8)
Part tribal leg, or, you know what I'm trying to say (8)
Really go wild with a symbolic story
Dance performance exposed with bloody symbolic narrative The Telegraph Toughie 08 Nov 2024
Endless passage to bloodthirsty fable (8)
Friend taking, say, gold as a metaphor (8)
Tale with a hidden meaning Commuter 22 Aug 2024
Story with a lesson Thomas Joseph 12 Jun 2024
Fable perhaps in English, quite bloodthirsty all round The Times Cryptic 16 May 2024
Tale with a message (8) Puzzler 28 Apr 2024
Myth for everyone, having energy and full of blood and guts (8)
A story, poem, etc in which the apparent meaning is used to symbolise a deeper moral or spiritual meaning (8)
Tale of love in the gallery, possibly (8)
Everyone wants end to the bloody story The Guardian Quiptic 11 Mar 2024
Story totally grisly about Spain The Sun Two Speed 05 Mar 2024
Symbolic tale The Sun Two Speed 05 Mar 2024
Symbolic narrative (8)
Butt of ridicule in completely gruesome tale with a hidden meaning (8)
New gallery housing old, symbolic work of art The Times Quick Cryptic 10 Oct 2023
25, perhaps, turned up with grisly tale The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Aug 2023
It symbolises everything horrific about ecstasy The Times Cryptic 05 Jul 2023
Move right into passage for story with moral The Times Cryptic 05 Jun 2023
Everyone beginning to enjoy gruesome parable The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Mar 2023
Sweetheart consumed by every bloody story The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Nov 2022
Story or symbol with a hidden meaning Irish Times Simplex 08 Apr 2022
Really go crazy producing a fable Irish Times Crosaire 26 Jan 2022
Really go crazy producing a fable Irish Times Crosaire 20 Sep 2021
Story totally grisly about Spain The Sun Two Speed 19 Jun 2021
It symbolises everything base and grisly The Telegraph Toughie 08 Jun 2021
Story with hidden meaning The Times Concise 29 May 2021
Really go crazy producing a fable Irish Times Crosaire 18 Mar 2021
Symbolic story Wall Street Journal 17 Feb 2021
Story etc in which there is a hidden moral meaning Irish Times Simplex 04 Jan 2021
Symbolical narrative The Guardian Speedy 22 Nov 2020
Story with symbolism The Washington Post 08 Oct 2020
Ecstasy within completely horrific symbolism
Story with symbolism LA Times Daily 08 Oct 2020
A short moral story Family Time 14 Jun 2020
Totally grisly, gripping end to macabre tale
Very exasperated at first with violent tale
Really upset about travel metaphor, perhaps The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Dec 2019
Run through really strange moral story The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Symbolic tale The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Run through really unusual sort of story The Sun Two Speed 31 Aug 2019
Female finally in extremely bloody parable The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Aug 2019
'Animal Farm,' e.g Thomas Joseph 24 Apr 2019
Metaphor The Telegraph Quick 05 Dec 2018
Parable of galley rowed unyoked at sea The Telegraph Toughie 07 Nov 2018
Story totally grisly about east The Sun Two Speed 30 Oct 2018
'The Crucible,' for McCarthyism New York Times 09 Sep 2018
Completely grisly setting for end of Poe story
Friend absorbs for example soldier's symbolic narration
Story with a lesson Thomas Joseph 03 Jan 2018
"The Crucible," for McCarthyism
Really go to rip apart a fable
Meaningful story The Times Concise 26 Sep 2017
Completely grisly setting for end of detective story?
Symbolic tale Newsday 08 Mar 2017
Story with metaphorical characters USA Today 23 Dec 2016
Turn right in passage for 'Gulliver's Travels', for example The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Dec 2016
Story revealing a hidden meaning The Times Concise 06 Dec 2016
Proceed right into passage of short story
Tale of a cricket side in royal mess
Symbol with meaning, completely base and disgusting
Symbolic work The Telegraph Quick 31 May 2016
Wholly English triumph left out in story The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Apr 2016
A parrot biting limb invites symbolic interpretation The Telegraph Toughie 06 Apr 2016
Metaphor; parable The Times Concise 16 Feb 2016
'Animal Farm,' for one New York Times 05 Jan 2016
Story with metaphorical characters
"Animal Farm," for one
Moral tale about Ecstasy is wholly distasteful The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Jan 2015
Fitzgerald returned with grisly tale
Moral tale of a parrot holding the stage
Story with symbolism
"The Tortoise and the Hare," for one
"The Tortoise and the Hare," for one
Symbolic story
"The Divine Comedy," e.g.
Symbolic tale
Parable's kin
Symbolic story
Fable
"Pilgrim's Progress" is one
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is one
Stretched-out parable
Metaphor in story form.
Metaphorical narrative.
Work like "The Faerie Queene."
"Pilgrim's Progress," for example.
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