25 Perhaps Turned Up With Grisly Tale Crossword Clue

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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: ALLEGORY

Updated: October 12, 2023 by Nicoli Westwood

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Rank		Letters	Answer	Clue
1	99%	8		Exact Match!
2	28%	8		Turned to glass, perhaps
3	28%	9		Turned to dust, perhaps

We think the answer is "ALLEGORY" which means:

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

An example sentence would be:

• "The novel is an allegory for the political situation in the country."
• "In the painting, the artist used animals as an allegory to represent different personality traits."

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A track, say, at the opponent's ground
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	Clue	Source
1	Family of 100 dined with grisly … The Guardian Cryptic - 30 May 2018	The Guardian Cryptic / 30 May 2018
2	Fitzgerald returned with grisly tale The Guardian Everyman - 16 Feb 2014	The Guardian Everyman / 16 Feb 2014
3	Grisly death? C-in-C took the risk The Guardian Cryptic - 10 Jul 2018	The Guardian Cryptic / 10 Jul 2018
4	Grisly end of relegation The Guardian Cryptic - 10 Sep 2009	The Guardian Cryptic / 10 Sep 2009
5	He wrote 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan', an opera based on a Pushkin fairy tale
6	Science a little bit grisly, ultimately The Guardian Cryptic - 15 Jan 2020	The Guardian Cryptic / 15 Jan 2020
7	Turned to glass, perhaps

Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is one
"Pilgrim's Progress" is one
Its characters are personifications
Go really wild with a symbolic tale
Girl repelled by bloody tale
Moral tale has the bloody lot on ecstasy
Symbolic tale - early log (anag)
Girl taken aback by grisly story
Symbolic narrative
The Spanish upset the French with bloody symbolic art

Go really wild with "Pilgrim's Progress", for example
Work of art intended to be understood symbolically
Fitzgerald returned with grisly tale
"Animal Farm," for one
Utterly base and gruesome moral tale
"The Crucible," for McCarthyism
Symbolical narrative
Everyone beginning to enjoy gruesome parable
Everyone wants end to the bloody story

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