| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| BALLADEER | One putting a tale in the air? |
| STEWSIDESTORY | Digression in the tale of a one-pot meal? |
| bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |
| LACER | One putting "punch" in the punch |
| fabliaux | A metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry |
| FISHY | Like a tale of "the one that got away" |
