Crossword Clue:

Told a tale

Answer	Crossword Clue
SPUN	Told a tale
LIED	Told a tale
FIBBED	Told a tale

SPUN	Told, as a tale
LIED	Told a tall tale
IDIOT	"... a tale told by an ....."
DANCERECITAL	Tale told by a ballerina?
TRITE	Like a thrice-told tale
DOWNHILLLIE	Tale told by a skier?
IDIOT	"A tale told by an ...": Macbeth.
IDIOT	" . . . a tale told by an ... . . . ": Macbeth

KNITTINGYARN	Tale told by a sweater maker?
HALFTRUTH	Twice-told, it's still a tale
AESOP	He told a hare racing tale
ALIBABA	Hero of a tale told by Scheherazade
IDIOT	"It is a tale told by an .. . . ."
LIFE	"... a tale - Told by an idiot": Macbeth
IDIOT	"It is a tale told by an .."
MARINER	He told his tale to a wedding guest.

SECONDSTORY	Tale told by an assistant at a duel?
ITISA	"... tale told . . . ": Macbeth
OLDSTORY	Oft-told tale
ITISA	"... tale told by . . . ": Macbeth
IDIOT	". . . tale told by an .."
RERUN	Twice-told TV tale
ITISA	".. tale told by an idiot"
WOVE	Told, as an elaborate tale

SOBSTORY	Tale told to elicit tears
SWISSACCOUNT	Tale told by William Tell?
IDIOT	" . . . tale told by an ...": Shak.
ANECDOTE	Tale told by an oldster
ITISA	"..tale told by an idiot"
TWAS	".. Christmas told the merriest tale": Scott
BELLYWHOPPER	Tale told by an Arabic dancing girl?
TIS	"... an old tale, and often told": Scott

TIS	"... an old tale, and often told" (Scott)
DAYTHEYSHOOKTHEPLUMTREE	Tale of Green fortune told (with "The").
ISA	"[Life] ... tale told by an idiot," per Macbeth