| WOULDILIETOYOU | Game show featuring tall tales or true (5,1,3,2,3) |
| LIE | Tall tales or true? (Would I --- to You?) |
| DYSTOPIANNOVEL | "The Handmaid's Tale" or "The Hunger Games" |
| CASHCAB | Game show featuring unsuspecting taxi passengers |
| FEAR | US reality game show featuring scary stunts, ---- Factor (4) |
| JEOPARDY | Game show featuring the theme song in this audio clip |
| WIPE | Game show featuring a giant obstacle course, - out (4) |
| CHASE | Game show featuring James Holzhauer, with "The" |
| MYTHUS | Latin rendering of a Greek word for a symbolical or traditional story; a body of fables, folk tales or legends; the underlying belief system of a society expressed allegorically through art, drama or |
| DOUBLEDARE | Nickelodeon game show featuring a human-size hamster wheel and giant pickable nose |
| CINDERELLA | A drudge of sooty hearth or scullery; or, a "rags-to-riches" girl, idea, person or thing, in a fairy tale or real life (10) |
| LEGEND | His fame makes him a source of exaggerated or romanticized tales or exploits. (6) |
| SORDID | Like some tales or details |
| LURID | Like some tales or details |
| READERSHIP | Lecturers cool, so we like tales or tomes (10) |
| SNITCH | Tell tales or a police informer (6) |
| RELATIONS | Represented in tales or narratives |
| STORKNIGHTIES | Tales or, after making a capture, some lingerie for long-necked birds? |
| ALLEGORIES | Moral tales or possibly lies galore (10) |
| TALL | Like doubtful tales or difficult orders |
