tale : 9 answers – Crossword-Clue

___ A. Talese (Doubleday imprint) ___ Bill (tall tale hero) ___ Defarge of "A Tale of Two Cities" ___ Fox of Uncle Remus tales ___ Lewis, 2006 winner on U.K. talent show "The X Factor" ___ tale ___ tale (far-fetched story) ___ talent ___ Tales, magazine where many H. P. Lovecraft stories first appeared ______ Tales, 1999 Hal-lowe'en hair raiser ''__ the Sons'' (Talese book) ''A WINTER's Tale'' playwright ''Bedtime'' tale ''Honor ___ Father'' (Talese novel) ''Leatherstocking Tales'' name ''The Handmaid's Tale'' author ''Wise Men and Their Tales'' author '80s-'90s Ed McMahon talent competition show 'A Tale of Two ___' 'A Tale of Two Cities' hero 'A tale told by an ___ ...' 'Britain's Got Talent' phenom Susan 'Britain's Got Talent' sensation 'Leatherstocking Tales' figure 'Tales of the City' writer 'The Tell-Tale Heart' taleteller 'Twice-Told Tales' author [1804] " . . . a tale ___ an idiot . . . ": Macbeth " . . . a tale told by an ___ . . . ": Macbeth " . . . a tale/Told ___ idiot" " . . . tale told by an ___": Shak. "___ (Tales of Yankee Power)" "___ an old tale, and often told" (Scott) "___ Chan," T. N. Page tale "___ Christmas told the merriest tale": Scott "___ Factor" (TV talent show) "___ Fairy Tales" "___ hangs a tale" "___ in Boots" (classic fairy tale) "___ Neighbor's Wife" (1981 Gay Talese book) "___ Neighbor's Wife": Talese "___ tale told . . . ": Macbeth "___ tale told by . . . ": Macbeth "___ Tales" "___ the Sons" (Gay Talese best seller) "___ the Sons" (Gay Talese) "--- the Sons" (Talese epic) "... a tale / Told by an idiot": Macbeth "... a tale told by an ---" "...my tale is long ___": Chaucer "[Life] ___ tale told by an idiot," per Macbeth "A Bronx Tale" director "A Tale ___ Cities" "A Tale of Two Cities" character "A Tale of Two Cities" city "A Tale of Two Cities" ender? "A Tale of Two Cities" hero Charles "A Tale of Two Cities" heroine "A Tale of Two Cities" or "War and Peace," e.g. "A Tale of Two Cities" setting "America's Got Talent" host "America's Got Talent" judge "America's Got Talent" judge Heidi "America's Got Talent" judge Mandel "America's Got Talent" network "America's Got Talent" season 3 runner-up Mattson "American ___" (talent show) "And ___ hangs a tale" "And thereby ___ a tale" "Canterbury Tales "character "Canterbury Tales" beverage "Canterbury Tales" drink "Canterbury Tales" group "Canterbury Tales" inn "Canterbury Tales" pilgrim "Cap'n ___" (1904 maritime tale) "Devil in a Midnight ___" Billy Talent "Downton Abbey" co-star's tale of the gods? "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" "Erec et ___," Chrétien de Troyes tale "Fairy tale" "Fairy tales" "For you there's rosemary and ___": "The Winter's Tale" "Hachi: A Dog's Tale" star "He used to make up unbelievable tales" "Honor Thy Father" author Talese "Hop-___," Poe tale "Horton Hears a ___" (Dr. Seuss tale) "I ___ a tale unfold . . . " "I ___ a tale unfold . . . ": Hamlet "I ___ a tale unfold . . . ": Shak. "I won't grow up" proclaimer in a classic tale "Il était ___ fois ..." (French fairy-tale starter) "Il était ___ fois" (French fairy tale start) "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" director Boll "It is a tale told by an __ . . ." "It is a tale told by an ___ ..." "Leatherstocking Tales" hero "Little" wheat grower in a folk tale "Pepe ___ Skunk Tales" (assorted shorts) "Seven Gothic Tales" author Dinesen "Seven Gothic Tales" writer Dinesen "Sleepy Hollow" tale "Tale of ___," old poem "Tale of the tape" statistic "Tales from Shakespear" cowriter "Tales From Shakespeare" writer "Tales From the ___ Woods," Strauss waltz "Tales From the ___" "Tales from the ___" (horror series) "Tales From the ___": '50s horror comic "Tales From the Crypt" offerer "Tales From the Vienna Woods" composer "Tales of a Wayside ___" (Longfellow) "Tales of the City" author Armistead "Tales of the City" novelist "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" author "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" writer "Tales of Trail and Town" author "Ten Summoner's Tales" singer "The ___ Duckling" (fairy tale) "The ___ of Amontillado" (Poe tale) "The ___ Show" (TV talent contest) "The ___ Tree," Andersen fairy tale "The ___-tale Heart" "The Bottle ___" (Stevenson tale) "The Canterbury Tales" author "The Canterbury Tales" character "The Canterbury Tales" charlatan "The Canterbury Tales" estate manager "The Canterbury Tales" inn "The Canterbury Tales" pilgrim "The Canterbury Tales" setting "The Canterbury Tales" traveler "The Cat Who Had 14 Tales" author ___ Jackson Braun "The Handmaid's Tale" character ___ Joy "The Handmaid's Tale" novelist Margaret "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" author's initials "The Old Wives' Tale" dramatist "The Old Wives' Tale" dramatist George "The Old Wives' Tale" playwright "The Old Wives' Tale" playwright George "The Phantom ___": Kipling tale "The Professor: A Tale" novelist "The Summoner's Tale" author "The Tale of the Giant ___ of Sumatra" (Firesign Theatre album) "The Tale of the Rising Yeast"? "The Talented Mr. Ripley" actor "The Talented Mr. Ripley" star "The Tell-Tale Heart" author "The Tell-Tale Heart" monogram "The Tell-Tale Heart" penner "The Tell-Tale Heart" teller "The Tell-Tale Heart" writer "The Three Princes of ___" (fairy tale) "The Winter's Tale" chorus "Thereby ___ a tale" "Therein ___ tale" "Three Tales from the Life of Knulp" novelist "To ___ tale of length . . . " "Twice-___ Tales" "Twice-___ Tales": Hawthorne "Twice-Told Tales" writer, with 70 Across "Winter's Tale" author "Winter's Tale" lord "Winter's Tales" author Dinesen *20th-century cartoonist who wrote "He Done Her Wrong," a 300-page pantomime tale *Brer Rabbit tale teller *Brer Rabbit taleteller *Fairy tale meanie *Villainous noble of a classic French tale 19th century tale of South Seas travel 19th-century South Seas tale 1847 South Seas tale 1847 tale of the South Seas 1960 Jerry Lewis fairy tale spoof 1962 Roger Corman film, "Tales of ___" 1971 Gay Talese title derived from one of the Ten Commandments 1977 whale of a tale 1980s-'90s talent show 1980s-'90s talent show, and what you need to do to find this puzzle's theme 1991 novel subtitled "Tales for an Accelerated Culture" 1993 movie about a talent agent 1998 film based on a Chinese folk tale A long tale such as "Beowulf" A lord in "The Winter's Tale" A musical talent A tale of Troy Abode in a Stowe tale About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" Adjective for fairy tales and Nick Jr. shows Adler in a Sherlock Holmes tale Adventure tale Adventure tale of 1847 Adventure tales Adventurers' tale Adventurous tale Aesop tale Aesop's tale Aesopian tale