"Fabled" author of "The Tortoise and the Hare" — Daily Themed Crossword Answer
This clue appeared in the September 15 2023 Daily Themed Crossword. The answer is below, with its letter count.
The answer
AESOP
5 letters
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Where this clue appears
September 15 2023
Daily
Daily Themed Crossword September 15 2023
AESOP
"The Tortoise and the Hare" author
AESOP
5
"The Fox and the Grapes" fable-writer
AESOP
5
Famous fabulist who authored "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
AESOP
5
Fable writer?
AESOP
5
Famed fable writer of yore
AESOP
5
Famous fabulist who wrote "The Fox and the Grapes"
AESOP
5
Author whose fables often had a moral twist
AESOP
5
Famous fabulist who authored "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
AESOP
5
Ancient Greek storyteller who is known for popular fables such as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
AESOP
5
Famed fable writer of yore
AESOP
5
Fables of ___ ("The Ant and the Grasshopper" author)
AESOP
5
"The Fox and the Grapes" fabulist
AESOP
5
Lose firmness, as a sofa
SAG
3
"All good things must come to an ___"
END
3
"___-la-la" (chorus syllable)
TRA
3
Words ___ minute (typist's speed)
PER
3
"Hinky Dinky Parlay ___" (popular song from the 1920s)
VOO
3
Prepare a banana for eating
PEEL
4
"That" in Tijuana
ESA
3
Ray of sunshine
BEAM
4
Upper ___ Side, Manhattan neighborhood
EAST
4
"Demon ___," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
COPPERHEAD
10
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