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Drinks supplied after end of short stories (5)

Ross

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tales

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'stories' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for tales that I've seen before include "Stories, perhaps tall ones" , "Stale kind of stories" , "Lies" , "Relations" , "accounts" .)

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