| 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) |
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| Narrative with broader message (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
10 Jul 2025 |
| Narrative with a hidden moral/meaning (8) |
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| Everyone takes direction on gory but symbolic story (8) |
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| Tale with a lesson |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 May 2025 |
| Really go round in parable (8) |
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| Part tribal leg, or, you know what I'm trying to say (8) |
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| Really go wild with a symbolic story |
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| Dance performance exposed with bloody symbolic narrative |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Nov 2024 |
| Endless passage to bloodthirsty fable (8) |
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| Friend taking, say, gold as a metaphor (8) |
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| 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) |
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| A story, poem, etc in which the apparent meaning is used to symbolise a deeper moral or spiritual meaning (8) |
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| Tale of love in the gallery, possibly (8) |
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| 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) |
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| Butt of ridicule in completely gruesome tale with a hidden meaning (8) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Very exasperated at first with violent tale |
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| 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 |
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| Friend absorbs for example soldier's symbolic narration |
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| Story with a lesson |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Jan 2018 |
| "The Crucible," for McCarthyism |
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| Really go to rip apart a fable |
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| Meaningful story |
The Times Concise |
26 Sep 2017 |
| Completely grisly setting for end of detective story? |
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| 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 |
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| Tale of a cricket side in royal mess |
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| Symbol with meaning, completely base and disgusting |
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| 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 |
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| "Animal Farm," for one |
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| Moral tale about Ecstasy is wholly distasteful |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Jan 2015 |
| Fitzgerald returned with grisly tale |
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| Moral tale of a parrot holding the stage |
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| Story with symbolism |
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| "The Tortoise and the Hare," for one |
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| "The Tortoise and the Hare," for one |
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| Symbolic story |
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| "The Divine Comedy," e.g. |
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| Symbolic tale |
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| Parable's kin |
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| Symbolic story |
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| Fable |
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| "Pilgrim's Progress" is one |
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| Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is one |
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| Stretched-out parable |
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| Metaphor in story form. |
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| Metaphorical narrative. |
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| Work like "The Faerie Queene." |
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| "Pilgrim's Progress," for example. |
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