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25 Perhaps Turned Up With Grisly Tale Crossword Clue

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99%8Exact Match!
noun

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

• an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

28%8Turned to glass, perhaps
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28%9Turned to dust, perhaps
verb

• break down

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