Short Allegorical Tale Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 10, 2023

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	noun • a short moral story (often with animal characters) • (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
	37%	8		Allegorical tale
	noun • a short moral story (often with animal characters)
	30%	3		Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short"
	noun • an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code

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New York Times15 Feb 1979	Down 4
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