| GEST | Tale or exploit |
| USE | Utilize or exploit unfairly |
| ESCAPADE | Daring adventure or exploit (8) |
| CASHIN | Take advantage of or exploit (a situation) (4,2) |
| LEGEND | His fame makes him a source of exaggerated or romanticized tales or exploits. (6) |
| 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) |
| RIPSOFF | Swindles, cheats or exploits (4,3) |
| USES | Some adventurous escapades or exploits |
| BAM | Informal word for a cheating, deception, diddle, false tale or hoax; or, an interjection imitating a loud blow or impact, to convey suddenness (3) |
| YARN | Thread for embroidery or sewing; sailor's long, incredible tale; or, a general shaggy-dog story (4) |
| STORY | Word, from "history", for a legend, saga, tale or yarn about a fairy, ghost, shaggy dog or anything else (5) |
| 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 |
| TALL | Type of tale or order |
| FAIRY | Word before tale or ring |
| EPIC | Grand-scale tale or grand-scale fail |
| RAT | Squealer with a tale or a tail |
| SAD | Kind of tale or fate |
| MYTH | Old folk tale or legend (4) |
| CHARLIE | A cleaner tale or a daft one |
| LORE | Tale or a myth |
