| Recitation by Scheherazade | 26 |
| Queen "A Winter's ___" | 36 |
| Primus might tell one "From the Punchbowl" | 52 |
| Poe story, e.g. | 15 |
| Poe specialty | 13 |
| Paul Bunyan account | 19 |
| Parable, e.g. | 13 |
| Output from Washington Irving | 29 |
| One might be tall | 17 |
| One might be hard to believe | 28 |
| One can be tall | 15 |
| O'Flaherty product | 22 |
| Narrator's offering | 23 |
| Narrated yarn | 13 |
| Mariner's yarn | 18 |
| Load of bunk | 12 |
| Libelous account | 16 |
| Liar's forte | 16 |
| Kind of bearer | 14 |
| Item in the Grimm brothers' collection | 42 |
| It's often handed down | 26 |
| It might be spun around a campfire | 34 |
| It may be supernatural | 22 |
| It may be shared over a campfire | 32 |
| It may be related to you | 24 |
| It can be tall | 14 |
| It can be spun | 14 |
| Isak Dinesen product | 20 |
| Invented account | 16 |
| Inside story found in five puzzle answers | 41 |
| Hoffmann product | 16 |
| Hoffmann offering | 17 |
| Hoary story | 11 |
| Hawthorne offering | 18 |
| Hawthorne creation | 18 |
| Hard-to-believe story | 21 |
| Hand-me-down, sometimes | 23 |
| Ghost story, e.g. | 17 |
| Folklorist's recital | 24 |
| Folk or fairy follower | 22 |
| Fishing souvenir? | 17 |
| Fisherman's whopper? | 24 |
| Fisherman's whopper | 23 |
| Fisherman's story | 21 |
| Fish story, e.g. | 16 |
| Fireside recitation | 19 |
| Fictional narrative | 19 |
| Fibber's forte | 18 |
| Falsehood, sometimes | 20 |
| Fairy or folk follower | 22 |
| Fairy follower | 14 |
| Elaborate invention | 19 |
| Doubtful story | 14 |
| Division of Chaucer's masterwork | 36 |
| Dinesen product | 15 |
| Dinesen offering | 16 |
| Dickens wrote one about two cities | 34 |
| Cream might tell one of "Brave Ulysses" | 49 |
| Colorful account | 16 |
| Chaucerian unit | 15 |
| Chaucerian form | 15 |
| Chaucerian account | 18 |
| Chaucer's "The Miller's ___" | 46 |
| Chaucer unit | 12 |
| Chaucer product | 15 |
| Chaucer bit | 11 |
| Cautionary ___ | 14 |
| Canterbury offering | 19 |
| Bedtime story | 13 |
| Beatrix Potter work | 19 |
| Ballad, often | 13 |
| Atwood's "The Handmaid's ---" | 47 |
| Atwood's "The Handmaid's ___" | 47 |
| Atwood's The Handmaid's ____ | 39 |
| Atwood novel "The Handmaid's ---" | 47 |
| Asimov product | 14 |
| Arctic Monkeys might tell a "Fake" one of San Francisco! | 66 |
| Apologue, e.g. | 14 |
| Any Poe story | 13 |
| Any "Twilight Zone" episode | 37 |
| Andersen offering | 17 |
| Anagram for teal | 16 |
| An intriguing yarn | 18 |
| An account of incidents | 23 |
| Account that joins words in seven of this puzzle's answers | 62 |
| Account of incidents | 20 |
| A likely story | 14 |
| A fisherman might bring back a big one | 38 |
| A fisherman may bring one home | 30 |
| "VH1 Storyteller" features | 36 |
| "Treasure Island," for one | 36 |
| "Treasure Island," e.g. | 33 |
| "Thereby hangs a ___" | 31 |
| "The Winter's __" | 31 |
| "The Handmaid's __": Atwood novel | 47 |
| "The Handmaid's ___" (Margaret Atwood novel) | 58 |
| "The Bard's ___" | 30 |
| "The ___ of Peter Rabbit" (Beatrix Potter book) | 57 |
| "Tattle" follower | 27 |
| "Ship of Fools," e.g. | 31 |