The Clue
"The Gift of the Magi," e.g. (4 letter answer)
The Answer
TALE
Tags
Notes
The answer TALE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
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Account
Conte
Fiction
Legend
Lie
Narrative
Rumor
Spellbinder
Story
Whopper
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Yarn
Dinesen offering
Fable, e.g.
Falsehood, sometimes
Fibber's forte
Fish story
Fisherman's relation?
Hawthorne offering
Hoffmann product
Kind of bearer
Related thing
Scheherazade specialty
Scheherazade's recital
Something spun
Tall follower
Tall story
Welty product
Writing of Chaucer
A fisherman may spin one
O. Henry product
Something that's related
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Wife of Bath's offering
It may be supernatural
Dickens wrote one about two cities
A fisherman might bring back a big one
Definition
TALE as a noun:
1. (narrative, narration, story, tale) = a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
2. (fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle) = a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"