Word "FABLE" Definitions:


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

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
Synonyms:
legend

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a deliberately false or improbable account
Synonyms:
fabrication, fiction

Crossword Clues for FABLE

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Loud, competent story (5) Mirror Cryptic 01 Aug 2025
Myth (5) Mirror Quick 01 Aug 2025
Myth (5) Mirror Quick 23 Jul 2025
Loud, competent story (5) Mirror Cryptic 23 Jul 2025
Moral story following murder victim with a twist at the end The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Jun 2025
Loud, competent story (5) Mirror Cryptic 06 Jun 2025
Note, free to create an old wives' tale (5)
Myth (5) Mirror Quick 06 Jun 2025
It's not true it comes to a moral conclusion
Tale marvellous - extremely labyrinthine? (5)
Moral story, as written by Aesop (5) Puzzler 14 May 2025
Story with a moral Commuter 29 Apr 2025
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 25 Apr 2025
Myth Mirror Quick 25 Apr 2025
Two leading characters dropped from pleasant story (5)
Fiction, myth (5)
A cross between a bee and a flea? It can't be true!
Aesop's product
Instructive tale Newsday 20 Feb 2025
Instructive story (5)
Tale by Aesop (5)
Moral tale Mirror Tea Time 01 Feb 2025
Story that can get strongly moralistic (5)
Myth or moral story
Story with a moral Newsday 16 Dec 2024
Myth Mirror Quick 14 Dec 2024
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 14 Dec 2024
Moral story The Times Sunday Concise 01 Dec 2024
Short story with a moral (5)
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 22 Nov 2024
Myth Mirror Quick 22 Nov 2024
Story that teaches a moral lesson (5)
Legend The Telegraph Quick 13 Nov 2024
Short story conveying a moral (5) The Guardian Speedy 10 Nov 2024
Moral tale The Telegraph Mini 12 Oct 2024
First fib - "fit to provide story" (5)
Story that's about Elba loudly returned (5)
Story with a moral Commuter 20 Sep 2024
Apologue New York Times 07 Sep 2024
Moral tale Mirror Tea Time 06 Sep 2024
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 22 Aug 2024
Myth Mirror Quick 22 Aug 2024
Story from Aesop Commuter 05 Aug 2024
Myth Mirror Quick 02 Aug 2024
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 02 Aug 2024
Female competent to produce old wives' tale The Times Quick Cryptic 14 Jun 2024
Moralistic story (5)
Myth Mirror Quick 15 May 2024
Story is loud and competent Mirror Cryptic 15 May 2024
Moral tale The Sun Two Speed 06 May 2024
Female with skills creates story The Sun Two Speed 06 May 2024
Short moral tale (5)
Left outlet for clever story (5)
Aesopian story Eugene Sheffer 23 Apr 2024
Moral tale can follow loudly (5)
In such a story animals and objects may be humanised (5)
Story by Aesop (5)
"The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g. USA Today 27 Mar 2024
Fairy returning to embrace sailor in story with a moral (5)
Aesop's story with a moral
Moral-teaching tale
Aesop tale LA Times Daily 05 Mar 2024
Fredrick the First able to produce Aesop story (5)
Female sailor left half a story (5)
Moral tale The Times Concise 20 Feb 2024
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 16 Feb 2024
Tale with a moral Mirror Quick 16 Feb 2024
Short moral story Mirror Classic 10 Feb 2024
One of Aesop's stories, e.g.
Fictitious story
Great little shell story...
A made-up story with a message or lesson to be learned
Loud, competent story Mirror Cryptic 05 Jan 2024
Myth Mirror Quick 05 Jan 2024
Animal tale Newsday 29 Dec 2023
Great line in cut story
Story from Aesop Commuter 14 Dec 2023
Moral story The Telegraph Quick 28 Nov 2023
Fictional story
France returning Italian island? That's a lie The Telegraph Toughie 08 Nov 2023
Flaubert’s first clever story The Times Cryptic 25 Oct 2023
Story with a lesson LA Times Daily 20 Oct 2023
Myth The Telegraph Quick 10 Jun 2023
Story with a moral USA Today 27 May 2023
Moral story The Telegraph Quick 16 May 2023
Story from Aesop Newsday 15 May 2023
Aesopian tale Eugene Sheffer 02 May 2023
Story with a point Thomas Joseph 31 Mar 2023
Story of competent female at the fore The Times Cryptic 16 Nov 2022
Aesop work LA Times Daily 23 Oct 2022
Aesop story Newsday 17 Oct 2022
One of Aesop's stories? The Guardian Quick 03 Oct 2022
Aesop's story with a moral
Female on island resurrected romance
Tale from Aesop Universal 17 Jan 2022
Story with a moral Universal 29 Nov 2021
Aesop story Universal 20 Nov 2021
Moral tale The Telegraph Quick 04 Nov 2021
“The Fox and the Grapes,” e.g. New York Times 27 Oct 2021
Moral tale The Telegraph Quick 10 Oct 2021
Aesop's tale
Story in super French article
Great French article and story The Sun Two Speed 17 May 2021
Moral tale The Sun Two Speed 17 May 2021
Great, extremely labyrinthine story The Telegraph Toughie 04 May 2021
''The Fox and the Stork,'' e.g Newsday 01 May 2021
Aesop's story
Animal tale Newsday 21 Mar 2021
Story with a moral?
'The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing,' for one New York Times 15 Jan 2021
Aesop creation The Washington Post 28 Dec 2020
Aesop creation LA Times Daily 28 Dec 2020
"The Tortoise and the Hare," for one Universal 21 Dec 2020
Story from Aesop Newsday 26 Oct 2020
Cautionary tale Universal 14 Oct 2020
Tale with a moral Newsday 27 Sep 2020
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf," e.g LA Times Daily 12 Aug 2020
'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' e.g The Washington Post 12 Aug 2020
'The Tortoise and the Hare,' e.g New York Times 28 Jul 2020
Story super with French article The Sun Two Speed 06 Jun 2020
Tale with a hidden moral
George Orwell's 'Animal Farm,' e.g New York Times 08 Apr 2020
Story and great French article The Sun Two Speed 01 Mar 2020
Literary term for a story with a moral, often featuring anthropomorphized characters
Fictional story, the kind Aesop is associated with
Parable kin Wall Street Journal 10 Aug 2019
Myth, legend The Times Concise 17 Jul 2019
Doubtful story The Washington Post 07 Apr 2019
Doubtful story LA Times Daily 07 Apr 2019
Tale from Aesop Newsday 12 Feb 2019
Aesop's specialty
Doubtful story
Parable kin
Allegorical story Wall Street Journal 16 Jul 2018
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf," for e.g.
Aesop specialty Universal 14 May 2018
'The Miser and His Gold,' e.g The Chronicle of Higher Education 11 May 2018
Story with a lesson
Story in book abridged in another leaf
Aesop specialty
"The Fox and the Grapes," e.g.
Allegorical story
"The Miser and His Gold," e.g.
Aesop story The Sun Two Speed 05 Dec 2017
Excellent, the French mythical tale The Sun Two Speed 05 Dec 2017
Tale with a moral Universal 28 Apr 2017
Short moral story Universal 22 Apr 2017
Aesopian story Eugene Sheffer 18 Apr 2017
Short moral story
Tale with a moral
Tale with a point Universal 13 Nov 2016
Tale with a moral USA Today 09 Nov 2016
Force accomplished account
Aesop's story? The Telegraph Quick 10 Jun 2016
It isn't true it comes to a moral conclusion The Telegraph Cryptic 09 May 2016
Story The Guardian Quick 28 Apr 2016
Aesopian tale Eugene Sheffer 18 Mar 2016
Story with a lesson LA Times Daily 15 Dec 2015
Offering from Aesop New York Times 08 Dec 2015
Myth or legend The Times Concise 13 Nov 2015
Material to lie on
Aesop's specialty Universal 10 Mar 2015
Story with a moral Universal 22 Jan 2015
Instructive tale Newsday 22 Jan 2015
Aesop creation USA Today 09 Jan 2015
Instructive tale
Aesop's specialty
Story with a moral
Story with a lesson
Aesop creation
Offering from Aesop
Story starring animals, at times
Tale with a moral
Moralistic tale
Tale with an epigrammatic ending
It has a moral
It has a moral
Tale with a moral
Illustrative story
Aesop story
Aesop's output
Story told by 15 Across
Cautionary tale
Jean de La Fontaine story
Aesopian story
Work with animals
Aesop work
Jean de La Fontaine story
Aesop work
Talking-animal tale
Aesop work
Aesop tale
Big lie
Aesop's tale
Allegorical tale
Aesop offering
Moral story
Aesopian narrative
Aesop tale
"The Tortoise and the Hare," for one
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf," e.g.
Legend
Aesop tale
Moralistic tale
Not a true story
Legend
Story with a moral
Aesop's forte
"Animal Farm," e.g.
Tale with a point
"The Fox and the Grapes," e.g.
Aesop work
It has a moral
Tale with a point
Aesop story
It's an old story
"The Fox and the Grapes," e.g.
Story with a moral
Story with a moral
Aesop's opus
It has a point
It ends in a point
Story from Aesop
33-Down output
Tale with a point
Moralistic tale
Tale of Aesop
Animal tale
Tale with a moral
Cautionary tale
It's an old story
Aesop's genre
Tale
Aesop's output
Instructive tale
One of Aesop's stories
Aesop tale
It ends in a point
"Animal Farm" form
Moralistic tale
"The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g.
Lie
"Animal Farm," e.g.
"The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g.
Allegory
It's an old story
Epigrammatic tale
Tall tale
Aesop opus
Aesop product
Apologue
Aesop specialty
Teaching tale
Creation of Ade or Aesop
La Fontaine opus
"The Fox and the Grapes," e.g.
George Ade piece
Legend
Old Greek writing.
Allegory.
Invented tale.
Type of story.
Legend.
Beast tale.
Faulkner's "A ___."
Talking-animal story.
Story not founded on fact.
Aesop's forte.
Fiction.
Moral tale.
La Fontaine story.
Apologue.
Short tale.
Story with talking animals
Idle story.
Tall story
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