Historical clue formulations

• A ___ as old as time — 2026-08-31
• Bit of folklore — 2026-08-09
• A tall one may be inflated — 2026-07-24
• Tall story — 2026-07-08
• Bit of writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne — 2025-09-09
• Edgar Allan Poe writing — 2025-08-19
• Old wives' ___ — 2025-06-09
• Account — 2025-04-06
• Fairy ___ — 2025-03-30
• Account — 2024-08-28
• Story — 2024-06-17
• Related thing — 2024-05-18
• Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer — 2024-03-12
• One of 24 in a Chaucer book — 2024-01-16
• Urban legend, e.g. — 2023-09-26
• Word after tall or tell — 2023-09-11
• Related thing — 2023-09-10
• Account — 2023-07-21
• Bit of fiction — 2023-06-24
• Chaucer chapter — 2022-07-28
• Chronicle — 2022-06-03
• Account — 2022-02-11
• Parable or allegory — 2021-12-26
• Grimm account — 2021-12-12
• Yarn — 2021-08-18
• That's some story — 2021-04-08
• Account — 2021-03-05
• Fairy ___ — 2020-12-12
• Account — 2020-04-23
• A tall one is exaggerated — 2020-04-07
• Food cooked in a cornhusk — 2020-03-05
• Yarn — 2019-10-27
• Made-up story — 2019-06-04
• Story — 2018-11-19
• "A ___ of Two Cities" — 2018-08-14
• Whodunit, e.g. — 2018-07-19
• What a fisherman might bring home even if he doesn't catch any fish — 2018-07-16
• Account — 2018-06-09
• Something to spin — 2018-02-16
• Fish story — 2017-08-15
• Shakespeare's "The Winter's ___" — 2017-06-26
• Yarn — 2016-11-27
• Chaucer offering — 2016-08-02
• It may be recounted — 2016-06-26
• Fish story — 2016-06-14
• "The Twilight Zone" episode, usually — 2016-04-23
• See 47-Across — 2015-10-21
• Bit of campfire entertainment — 2015-10-07
• Related thing — 2015-09-26
• Minstrel's offering — 2015-07-25