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Tell __ story: elicit sympathy

Last seen in LA Times Daily Crossword October 20, 2018 Answers

Trying to complete the LA Times Daily Crossword crossword from October 20, 2018? The clue "Tell __ story: elicit sympathy" stumps many solvers, but we've found 158 possible answers. Our top solution is ASOB (4 letters) with 99% confidence, determined by how often this answer has been used for this and related crossword clues.

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ASOB
Tell __ story: elicit sympathy
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 20, 2018
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EXODUS
Book that tells the story of Moses
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 20, 2026
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BANGLEANGLE
Reporter's approach to a story about a bracelet?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 17, 2026
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TWINSPIN
Reporter's approach to a story about a doppelgänger?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 17, 2026
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DRAKETAKE
Reporter's approach to a story about a male duck?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 17, 2026
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ANTSLANT
Reporter's approach to a story about a picnic pest?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 17, 2026
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CROCUSFOCUS
Reporter's approach to a story about a spring bloom?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 17, 2026
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ALIBI
Cover story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 16, 2026
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BALLAD
Song that tells a story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 13, 2026
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TEEN
Coming-of-age story subject, often
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 6, 2026
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SAYIT
"Just tell us!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 22, 2026
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HULA
Dance that tells a story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 19, 2026
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ATTIC
Unfinished story, perhaps
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 27, 2026
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ISAW
"You don't have to tell me!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 15, 2026
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CHRONICLED
Told the story of
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 8, 2026
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IVE
"__ been meaning to tell you ... "
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 1, 2026
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NDA
Promise not to tell, for short
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 31, 2026
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FEAR
Scary story emotion
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 19, 2026
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BTW
"forgot 2 tell u ..."
Universal Crossword · Apr 18, 2026
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FOOTMAN
Helper in a Cinderella story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 4, 2026
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PLOT
It might thicken in a story
Universal Crossword · Mar 28, 2026
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EDIT
Change one's story?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 12, 2026
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LOWPITCH
Thrown ball that might elicit a cry of "Ball!"
Universal Crossword · Mar 10, 2026
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IROBOT
Classic 1950 short story collection by Asimov
Universal Crossword · Feb 26, 2026
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SOB
Word before "story" or "sister"
Universal Crossword · Feb 13, 2026
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TALE
"Tall" story
Universal Crossword · Feb 4, 2026
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HARTE
American short story writer Bret
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 1, 2026
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MIME
Performer who's all show and no tell
Universal Crossword · Jan 31, 2026
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ROMANTASY
Genre for a vampire enemies-to-lovers story
Universal Crossword · Jan 25, 2026
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SAGA
Very long story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 13, 2026
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MEMOIR
Personal story
Universal Crossword · Jan 9, 2026
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LESMIS
Jean Valjean’s story, familiarly
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 21, 2025
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LIE
"I cannot tell a ___" (words that Washington may not have said, ironically)
Universal Crossword · Dec 20, 2025
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ASKANYONE
"Everybody will tell you the same!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 9, 2025
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SEE
"What'd I tell you?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 6, 2025
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SITON
Suppress, as a news story
Universal Crossword · Nov 18, 2025
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MORAL
Part of a good story?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 17, 2025
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AHS
Sounds of sympathy
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 15, 2025
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ANON
Short story writer?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 10, 2025
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ISMELL
"Please tell me the shower's available"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 8, 2025
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IDUNNO
"Couldn't tell ya"
Universal Crossword · Oct 29, 2025
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POE
Short story writer Edgar Allan __
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 27, 2025
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IBET
"A likely story!"
Universal Crossword · Oct 24, 2025
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ONCE
Start of a children's story
Universal Crossword · Oct 23, 2025
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IDK
"u tell me"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 25, 2025
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MYTH
Pandora's story, e.g.
Universal Crossword · Sep 17, 2025
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PLOTHOLE
Logical oversight in a story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 8, 2025
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LESSON
Moral of the story
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 29, 2025
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AUTOPSY
Exam in a detective story
Universal Crossword · Aug 11, 2025
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KEEPITBETWEENUS
"Don't tell anyone"
Universal Crossword · Aug 10, 2025
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NEWS
What Time will tell?
Universal Crossword · Aug 2, 2025
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TWISTMYARM
Ironic way of saying "You don't have to tell me twice!" ... or what the starred clues' answers do?
Universal Crossword · Jul 24, 2025
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PITYPARTY
"Gathering" for someone seeking sympathy
Universal Crossword · Jul 20, 2025
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TELLATALE
Participate in story time
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 19, 2025
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CRABBYCABBIE
"Don't try and tell me the route—I've been doing this job for 20 years," growled the __
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 16, 2025
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CODERS
They tell computers what to do
Universal Crossword · Jun 12, 2025
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KROC
Ray of McDonald's history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 2, 2026
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PEDANT
Intellectual stickler
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 30, 2026
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CALLLOG
Phone history list
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 17, 2026
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DIORAMA
Natural history museum display
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 9, 2026
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MARKERGENE
Clue in evolutionary history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 8, 2026
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SEER
Fortuneteller
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 7, 2026
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ANABSOLUTEGEM
Praise for a Hope Diamond history?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 2, 2026
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KNEEPAN
Quaint term for "patella"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 31, 2026
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PAST
History
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 19, 2026
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ERAS
History chapters
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 19, 2026
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ION
Particle in a stellar wind
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 19, 2026
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DREAMHOUSE
Three-story abode in Barbie pink
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 11, 2026
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KNEE
Patella locale
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 8, 2026
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ADLER
Stella who founded an acting school in New York City
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 1, 2026
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DAD
Stereotypical teller of terrible jokes
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 29, 2026
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ORAL
Like some history and hygiene
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 18, 2026
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PAUSEFOREFFECT
Stop mid-story to add suspense, say
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 16, 2026
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SPY
Intelligence agent
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 11, 2026
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NED
Kelly who narrates Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 6, 2026
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GRANDMA
Consultant on a family history project, perhaps
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 2, 2026
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SCHOLAR
Intellectual
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 25, 2026
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AMA
Reddit tell-all sesh
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 18, 2026
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SPUTNIK
Soviet satellite launched in 1957
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 18, 2026
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TEALEAF
Bit read by a fortune teller
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 12, 2026
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SELMA
Alabama city in civil rights history
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 12, 2026
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DRAMATICLICENSE
Something taken by a teller?
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 9, 2026
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ANGELSINAMERICA
Pulitzer-winning play chronicled in the oral history "The World Only Spins Forward"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 9, 2026
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IMDB
Place to find one's credit history?
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 1, 2026
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ERA
Chapter in history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 28, 2026
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IAGO
"Otello" baritone
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 26, 2026
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ETA
"What's the GPS telling you?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 18, 2026
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ALOUD
How a storybook may be read
Universal Crossword · Apr 16, 2026
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BIO
Brief history?
Universal Crossword · Apr 13, 2026
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MEAT
Tortellini filling option
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 8, 2026
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OMAHA
Nebraska city that's home to the Great Plains Black History Museum
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 8, 2026
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COPYRIGHT
Protection of intellectual property, or a phonetic hint to 16-, 23-, 30-, and 44-Across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 30, 2026
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ITSELF
History repeats ___
Universal Crossword · Mar 25, 2026
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YAZ
Big name in BoSox history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 25, 2026
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NEBULA
Interstellar cloud
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 24, 2026
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TICS
Some poker tells
Universal Crossword · Mar 16, 2026
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MODERNERA
Current stretch of human history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 16, 2026
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RANCHER
Single-story home
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 13, 2026
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ORION
Film production company named for a constellation
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 13, 2026
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CLIO
Muse of history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 11, 2026
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URSA
Constellation bear
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 3, 2026
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SUNBEAR
Stellar-sounding animal native to Southeast Asia
Universal Crossword · Mar 2, 2026
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KGB
USSR intelligence org.
Universal Crossword · Feb 26, 2026
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ADA
Lovelace of computer history
Universal Crossword · Feb 21, 2026
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MOTH
"The ___ Radio Hour" (storytelling series)
Universal Crossword · Feb 21, 2026
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ASSETS
Intelligence, sense of humor, etc.
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 13, 2026
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BRITS
They call TVs "tellies"
Universal Crossword · Feb 11, 2026
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URSAMINOR
Constellation containing Polaris
Universal Crossword · Feb 8, 2026
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POLYGRAPH
*Intelligence agent's tool
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 4, 2026
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TMNT
Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, for short
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 26, 2026
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PERON
Juan in Argentine history
Universal Crossword · Jan 23, 2026
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SHOW
___-and-tell
Universal Crossword · Jan 15, 2026
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ELLEN
“Interstellar” actress Burstyn
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 28, 2025
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EMU
Bird in an Aboriginal Australian constellation
Universal Crossword · Dec 22, 2025
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EPOCH
Slice of history
Universal Crossword · Dec 20, 2025
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TAROT
Fortuneteller's deck
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 17, 2025
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MOIRAROSE
"Schitt's Creek" character who tells her son to "stop acting like a disgruntled pelican"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 29, 2025
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STAR
One point of a constellation
Universal Crossword · Nov 19, 2025
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ACE
Stellar service?
Universal Crossword · Nov 18, 2025
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GPS
Tech that relies on satellites
Universal Crossword · Nov 8, 2025
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SITES
Browser history list
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 3, 2025
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RADIO
Satellite ___
Universal Crossword · Nov 2, 2025
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ALAMO
Something to remember from history class
Universal Crossword · Oct 30, 2025
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THEEND
Bedtime story's final words
Universal Crossword · Oct 21, 2025
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LEO
Lion constellation
Universal Crossword · Oct 13, 2025
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ACHOO
"Gesundheit" elicitor
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 29, 2025
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SSRS
Cold War satellites, briefly
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 28, 2025
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GOOGLEEARTH
*App with layered satellite images
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 23, 2025
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CANIS
__ Major: constellation with Sirius, the Dog Star
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 16, 2025
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ARTSY
Overly intellectual, maybe
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 16, 2025
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NOVELIST
Storyteller
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 14, 2025
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DOROTHEABATE
Archaeozoologist who was likely the first woman to work at London's Natural History Museum
Universal Crossword · Sep 10, 2025
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WHYTHEBIGGOLDRUSH
*Question on a history test about westward migration in the 1840s?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 7, 2025
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ISS
Satellite 250 miles above Earth, for short
Universal Crossword · Aug 26, 2025
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NOTSOGOOD
Less than stellar
Universal Crossword · Aug 24, 2025
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ROOF
Satellite dish spot
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 17, 2025
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LEARN
Grow intellectually
Universal Crossword · Aug 14, 2025
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FEB
Black History Mo.
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 13, 2025
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ESSAY
History assignment
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 12, 2025
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REST
"The ___ is history!"
Universal Crossword · Aug 10, 2025
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VEGA
Brightest star in the constellation Lyra
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 10, 2025
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LIARS
Whopper tellers
Universal Crossword · Aug 1, 2025
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LYING
Not telling the truth
Universal Crossword · Jul 24, 2025
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IDEA
"Eureka!" elicitor
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 24, 2025
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SOVIETERA
1922-1991, in Russian history
Universal Crossword · Jul 22, 2025
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GASPS
Reacts to a tell-all, maybe
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 16, 2025
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AESOP
"The Tortoise and the Hare" storyteller
Universal Crossword · Jul 14, 2025
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TAROTS
Fortunetelling decks
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 8, 2025
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RHEAPERLMAN
*Actress who played Carla Tortelli on "Cheers"
Universal Crossword · Jul 7, 2025
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LIAR
Tale teller
Universal Crossword · Jul 6, 2025
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OFMICEANDMEN
Title for a tell-all about Cinderella's early social life?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 6, 2025
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PRE
Beginning of history?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 2, 2025
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IVAN
"Terrible" man of history
Universal Crossword · Jun 25, 2025
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NASA
Launcher of the PACE satellite
Universal Crossword · Jun 25, 2025
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STBEDE
"Venerable" monk of Eng. history
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 19, 2025
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LYRA
Harp constellation
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 17, 2025
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ANNE
Hathaway in "Interstellar"
Universal Crossword · Jun 9, 2025
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LIP
Body part used in kissing and telling
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 4, 2025

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How many possible solutions does "Tell __ story: elicit sympathy" have?
We found 1 exact solution and 158 total potential answers including similar clues. The most likely answer is ASOB (4 letters).
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The best answer for "Tell __ story: elicit sympathy" is ASOB with 4 letters. This answer has a 99% confidence rating based on our database of crossword solutions.
Where has "Tell __ story: elicit sympathy" been used as a crossword clue?
This clue has appeared 1 time in our database. It has been featured in LA Times Daily Crossword. It was last seen in the LA Times Daily Crossword on October 20, 2018.
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