Utterly Base And Gruesome Moral Tale Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	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
	36%	9		Utterly gruesome
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	30%	10		Moral and ethical concept of having a moral standing and being a subject of moral concern
	noun • being a person

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	Clue	Source
1	"To point a moral, or ___ tale": S. Johnson New York Times - 16 Jul 1986	New York Times / 16 Jul 1986
2	Fellow in moral tale is not beyond redemption The Guardian Cryptic - 07 Mar 2016	The Guardian Cryptic / 07 Mar 2016
3	Grinding of her teeth prefaces 10's moral tale The Guardian Cryptic - 26 Aug 2022	The Guardian Cryptic / 26 Aug 2022
4	Moral and ethical concept of having a moral standing and being a subject of moral concern
5	Moral tale has the bloody lot on ecstasy The Guardian Cryptic - 24 Jan 2002	The Guardian Cryptic / 24 Jan 2002
6	Tale with a moral New York Times - 05 Dec 1992	New York Times / 05 Dec 1992
7	Utterly gruesome

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
"The Crucible," for McCarthyism
Symbolical narrative
Everyone beginning to enjoy gruesome parable
25, perhaps, turned up with grisly tale
Everyone wants end to the bloody story

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