| Lie |
USA Today |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Little lie |
|
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| Fiction book provided must be returned |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
13 Jun 2025 |
| Small stretch? |
Wall Street Journal |
31 May 2025 |
| Minor misstatement |
Newsday |
04 May 2025 |
| Stretch the truth |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Apr 2025 |
| Porky |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Apr 2025 |
| Lightweight lie |
|
|
| Stretch the truth |
Universal |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Minor untruth |
LA Times Daily |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Could one mislead the FBI? (3) |
|
|
| Tell a lie |
The Times Concise |
05 Mar 2025 |
| Tell a tale, in a way |
USA Today |
01 Mar 2025 |
| Fudge the facts |
New York Times |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Cover story? |
New York Times |
12 Feb 2025 |
| Tell a lie |
Mirror Tea Time |
05 Feb 2025 |
| Falsehood |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Jan 2025 |
| The FBI are confused by this deception |
|
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| Minor misstatement |
Newsday |
15 Dec 2024 |
| A trivial lie (3) |
|
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| Bit of baloney |
LA Times Daily |
17 Nov 2024 |
| Taradiddle |
New York Times |
03 Nov 2024 |
| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Oct 2024 |
| Small lie |
Puzzler Backwords |
27 Oct 2024 |
| Harmless lie (rhymes with "nib") |
|
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| Small invention |
New York Times |
26 Oct 2024 |
| Tiny lie |
|
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| Female with one book that's not true |
|
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| Lie |
The Telegraph Mini |
11 Oct 2024 |
| White lie |
LA Times Daily |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Small-scale lie |
Family Time |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Insignificant lie (3) |
|
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| Tell falsehood |
|
|
| "I'm on my way," maybe |
USA Today |
17 Aug 2024 |
| If turning black, don't tell the truth |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
15 Aug 2024 |
| Small lie |
USA Today |
02 Aug 2024 |
| Stretch the truth a little |
|
|
| Tell tales |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Falsehood |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Jun 2024 |
| White lie |
|
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| Minor prevarication |
New York Times |
09 May 2024 |
| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Stretch the truth |
LA Times Daily |
15 Apr 2024 |
| Little lie |
Universal |
01 Apr 2024 |
| Trivial and harmless lie |
Mirror Classic |
31 Mar 2024 |
| Tell lies (3) |
|
|
| "I'm busy that night," often |
New York Times |
20 Mar 2024 |
| Lie: tell a - |
|
|
| Lie, untruth |
The Times Concise |
11 Mar 2024 |
| You could call it a pork pie |
|
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| White lie |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Girl primarily broadcasting false information |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
27 Feb 2024 |
| White lie |
LA Times Daily |
26 Feb 2024 |
| Part of rebuff I believed to be a harmless lie (3) |
|
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| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Feb 2024 |
| Little lie |
USA Today |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Equivocation, maybe |
|
|
| Slight untruth |
|
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| Little lie, but still a lie |
Family Time |
07 Jan 2024 |
| Minor mistruth |
|
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| "Sorry for my late reply; your message was in my spam folder," maybe |
|
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| Little lie |
USA Today |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Minor untruth |
Newsday |
24 Dec 2023 |
| Tell tales |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Dec 2023 |
| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Nov 2023 |
| Little white lie |
|
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| Porky pie |
The Guardian Quick |
17 Nov 2023 |
| Unimportant lie |
Universal |
10 Nov 2023 |
| Little white lie |
|
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| Tiny lie |
|
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| Untruth |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Oct 2023 |
| Little lie |
USA Today |
05 Sep 2023 |
| Bit of fiction |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Aug 2023 |
| Itty-bitty lie |
|
|
| Small lie |
Universal |
03 Jul 2023 |
| Little lie |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Jul 2023 |
| Little lie |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jun 2023 |
| Little lie |
|
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| Teeny-weeny lie |
|
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| Small white lie |
|
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| Small lie |
|
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| Tell a tall tale |
|
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| Do some making up |
New York Times |
05 Feb 2023 |
| Lie that's no biggie? |
|
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| Stretch, as the truth |
|
|
| Tell 62-Across |
LA Times Daily |
30 Dec 2022 |
| Piece of fudge? |
New York Times |
18 Dec 2022 |
| Little lie |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Little lie |
Universal |
13 Nov 2022 |
| Untruth |
USA Today |
07 Nov 2022 |
| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Oct 2022 |
| Tiny lie |
|
|
| Bend the truth, a little |
|
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| Small lie |
|
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| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Aug 2022 |
| Small lie |
Universal |
20 Aug 2022 |
| 'Traffic was terrible,' maybe |
New York Times |
17 Aug 2022 |
| Tiny little lie |
USA Today |
14 Aug 2022 |
| Small lie |
USA Today |
07 Aug 2022 |
| Tell a lie |
|
|
| Minor misstatement |
Newsday |
29 Jul 2022 |
| White lie |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2022 |
| Minor untruth |
Universal |
23 Jul 2022 |
| Lie a little |
Universal |
17 Jul 2022 |
| Harmless lie |
|
|
| Tell tales |
Thomas Joseph |
27 May 2022 |
| Little lie |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Bit of truth-stretching |
|
|
| Little lie |
Newsday |
15 Feb 2022 |
| Tell tales |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Jan 2022 |
| Trivial lie |
The Times Concise |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Invented story? |
|
|
| Small fabrication |
USA Today |
30 Nov 2021 |
| Simple lie |
USA Today |
22 Nov 2021 |
| Small lie |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Nov 2021 |
| Trivial lie |
The Times Concise |
02 Nov 2021 |
| Little lie |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Oct 2021 |
| Stretch the truth |
Universal |
25 Jul 2021 |
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| False statement one seen in Facebook? |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jun 2021 |
| Untruth |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jun 2021 |
| Little lie |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Jun 2021 |
| Little white lie |
|
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| Little lie |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 May 2021 |
| Tiny lie |
|
|
| Untruth |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 May 2021 |
| Whopper junior? |
New York Times |
03 May 2021 |
| Tell a trivial lie |
|
|
| Mistruth |
New York Times |
11 Apr 2021 |
| Little lie |
USA Today |
08 Apr 2021 |
| Tell a little untruth |
Newsday |
24 Mar 2021 |
| Bit of fiction |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Mar 2021 |
| Taradiddle |
New York Times |
04 Mar 2021 |
| 'Of course it looks good on you!,' maybe |
New York Times |
27 Feb 2021 |
| Sort of misinformation |
Newsday |
07 Feb 2021 |
| Petty little lie |
|
|
| Little white lie |
Universal |
17 Jan 2021 |
| Make stuff up |
New York Times |
16 Dec 2020 |
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Little lie |
New York Times |
08 Dec 2020 |
| False claim a twist in the tail for Feds |
|
|
| Little lie |
Universal |
27 Oct 2020 |
| Small untruth |
LA Times Daily |
18 Sep 2020 |
| Small untruth |
The Washington Post |
18 Sep 2020 |
| Whopper Jr.? |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Jun 2020 |
| Minor untruth |
Newsday |
14 Apr 2020 |
| Little lie |
The Washington Post |
03 Apr 2020 |
| Little lie |
LA Times Daily |
03 Apr 2020 |
| Small lie |
|
|
| Tell an untruth |
Universal |
28 Mar 2020 |
| A lie |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| "This tastes delicious!," maybe |
|
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| Tiny tale |
Family Time |
06 Jan 2020 |
| White lie |
LA Times Daily |
24 Sep 2019 |
| White lie |
The Washington Post |
24 Sep 2019 |
| “I’m five minutes away,” often |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Sep 2019 |
| Do a little stretching? |
New York Times |
10 Jul 2019 |
| Tell a tale |
The Washington Post Sunday |
09 Jun 2019 |
| Bit of fudge? |
New York Times |
08 Jun 2019 |
| Just a lie |
|
|
| Subtract a year or two from one's age, say |
New York Times |
23 May 2019 |
| Teeny lie |
USA Today |
24 Apr 2019 |
| Innocuous falsehood |
The Washington Post |
23 Apr 2019 |
| Innocuous falsehood |
LA Times Daily |
23 Apr 2019 |
| Lie |
Family Time |
25 Feb 2019 |
| It's petty but misleading |
The Washington Post |
01 Feb 2019 |
| It's petty but misleading |
LA Times Daily |
01 Feb 2019 |
| "I'm five minutes away," often |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| Innocuous falsehood |
|
|
| Teeny lie |
|
|
| Subtract a year or two from one's age, say |
|
|
| Bend the truth |
|
|
| It's petty but misleading |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Bit of fudge? |
|
|
| Do a little stretching? |
|
|
| Little untruth |
New York Times |
26 Dec 2018 |
| Untruth I found in key book |
|
|
| Bit of baloney from someone's mouth? |
The Washington Post Sunday |
09 Sep 2018 |
| Spare a friend's feelings, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2018 |
| Spare a friend's feelings, maybe |
The Washington Post |
01 Sep 2018 |
| Whopper junior? |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Jul 2018 |
| Little untruth |
The Washington Post |
18 Jul 2018 |
| Little untruth |
LA Times Daily |
18 Jul 2018 |
| Tell a ___ (little lie) |
|
|
| "I didn't know I was speeding, officer," e.g. |
|
|
| It's not quite a whopper |
USA Today |
17 Apr 2018 |
| Fudge a fact |
USA Today |
27 Mar 2018 |
| Bit of fiction |
Premier Sunday |
11 Mar 2018 |
| Small stretch |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Mar 2018 |
| Bit of baloney |
New York Times |
18 Feb 2018 |
| Fudge the facts |
USA Today |
04 Feb 2018 |
| Little untruth |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| Little untruth |
|
|
| Spare a friend's feelings, maybe |
|
|
| Bit of baloney |
|
|
| Whopper junior? |
|
|
| It's not quite a whopper |
|
|
| Fudge the facts |
|
|
| Statement made while crossing the fingers, maybe |
New York Times |
31 Dec 2017 |
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Revolutionary provided origin of background story |
|
|
| It's not a bad lie |
The Washington Post |
05 Nov 2017 |
| It's not a bad lie |
LA Times Daily |
05 Nov 2017 |
| Something that might be said with fingers crossed behind the back |
New York Times |
16 Oct 2017 |
| No Clue |
Canadiana |
17 Jul 2017 |
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Minor misstatement |
Newsday |
07 Jul 2017 |
| White lie |
Universal |
04 Jul 2017 |
| It's a piece of fiction involving characters in Franz Josef I biography |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Jul 2017 |
| Bend the truth |
USA Today |
15 May 2017 |
| White lie |
Canadiana |
08 May 2017 |
| Petty falsehood |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Apr 2017 |
| Petty lie |
|
|
| Trivial lie |
|
|
| Bit of baloney |
USA Today |
07 Feb 2017 |
| Small lie |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jan 2017 |
| Not quite a whopper |
USA Today |
02 Jan 2017 |
| Not quite a whopper |
|
|
| Statement made while crossing the fingers, maybe |
|
|
| It's not a bad lie |
|
|
| Something that might be said with fingers crossed behind the back |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Bend the truth |
|
|
| Fudge a fact |
|
|
| Little white 64-Down |
USA Today |
26 Oct 2016 |
| Little white lie |
USA Today |
14 Jul 2016 |
| Little white lie |
Irish Times Simplex |
16 Jun 2016 |
| Little lie |
Newsday |
25 Apr 2016 |
| Lie a little |
New York Times |
19 Apr 2016 |
| Wee lie |
The Washington Post |
24 Mar 2016 |
| Small invention |
New York Times |
28 Feb 2016 |
| Small lie |
USA Today |
18 Jan 2016 |
| Small lie |
|
|
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Casual invention |
New York Times |
05 Dec 2015 |
| Bend the truth |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Nov 2015 |
| Piece of fudge |
Newsday |
08 Aug 2015 |
| Embroider, perhaps |
Newsday |
23 Apr 2015 |
| Tell tales |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Apr 2015 |
| Teensy tale |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Apr 2015 |
| Teeny tale |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Jan 2015 |
| Little white lie |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jan 2015 |
| Casual invention |
|
|
| Piece of fudge |
|
|
| Minor misstatement |
|
|
| Embroider, perhaps |
|
|
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Tell tales |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| Trumped-up story |
|
|
| Not a very big invention |
|
|
| Fudging of fact |
|
|
| Little story |
|
|
| Tall tale |
|
|
| Minor falsehood |
|
|
| Taradiddle |
|
|
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Bit of fiction |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| "I didn't know I was speeding, officer," e.g. |
|
|
| Small story |
|
|
| Bit of fiction |
|
|
| Minor invention |
|
|
| Minor invention |
|
|
| Wee lie |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Stretch the truth |
|
|
| Tiny tale |
|
|
| Tell a white lie |
|
|
| Wee lie |
|
|
| Little white lie |
|
|
| "The dog ate my homework," e.g. |
|
|
| Suspect story, maybe |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| Suspect story, maybe |
|
|
| "The dog ate my homework," e.g. |
|
|
| Whopper junior? |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| It's not a very big story |
|
|
| Trivial lie |
|
|
| Whopper junior? |
|
|
| Stretching of the truth |
|
|
| Kid's story |
|
|
| Taradiddle |
|
|
| Lie a little |
|
|
| Bit of fiction |
|
|
| Trumped-up bit |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Small stretch |
|
|
| Piece of misinformation |
|
|
| Bend the truth |
|
|
| Wee whopper |
|
|
| Small stretch |
|
|
| It's more than a stretch |
|
|
| It may be said while crossing the fingers |
|
|
| Bend the truth |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| Much less than a whopper |
|
|
| Embellishment, perhaps |
|
|
| Tell an untruth |
|
|
| Myth statement? |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| Much less than a whopper |
|
|
| Embellishment, perhaps |
|
|
| Teeny tale |
|
|
| Wee whopper |
|
|
| Tell tales |
|
|
| Not so tall a tale |
|
|
| Harmless lie |
|
|
| Take lying down? |
|
|
| Tiny tale |
|
|
| Not so tall a tale |
|
|
| Tell a little lie |
|
|
| Take lying down? |
|
|
| Harmless lie |
|
|
| There's no truth to it |
|
|
| Trumped-up story |
|
|
| Trivial lie |
|
|
| Small tale |
|
|
| Small tale? |
|
|
| Create fiction? |
|
|
| There's no truth to it |
|
|
| Small tale? |
|
|
| Create fiction? |
|
|
| Untruth |
|
|
| Small tale |
|
|
| Little white lie |
|
|
| Tiny untruth |
|
|
| Stretch the truth a bit |
|
|
| Inconsequential invention |
|
|
| Inconsequential lie |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| Not be entirely truthful |
|
|
| Little white lie |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Whopper junior? |
|
|
| Little lie |
|
|
| Story |
|
|
| Cock-and-bull story |
|
|
| Taradiddle |
|
|
| Bit of baloney |
|
|
| Taradiddle |
|
|
| Tell a story, say |
|
|
| Untruth |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Small untruth |
|
|
| Whopper junior? |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Tiny tale |
|
|
| Minor falsehood |
|
|
| Petty prevarication |
|
|
| Minor invention |
|
|
| Bit of baloney |
|
|
| Bit of truth-stretching |
|
|
| "Little white lie" |
|
|
| Tiny tale |
|
|
| Exaggerate |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Untruth |
|
|
| Piece of disinformation |
|
|
| Taradiddle |
|
|
| Prevaricate |
|
|
| White lie |
|
|
| Falsehood |
|
|
| Piece of disinformation |
|
|
| Not quite a truth |
|
|
| Stretch the truth |
|
|
| Wee lie |
|
|
| Lie |
|
|
| Wee whopper |
|
|
| Mild untruth |
|
|
| Small lie |
|
|
| Small untruth |
|
|
| Tallish tale |
|
|
| Lie |
|
|
| Little liar's lapse |
|
|
| Distortion |
|
|
| Truth evasion |
|
|
| Tale |
|
|
| Mendacity |
|
|
| Low-key lie |
|
|
| Tell a lie. |
|
|
| Innocent lie. |
|
|
| Lie. |
|
|
| Falsehood. |
|
|
| Little white lie. |
|
|
| Tell some tales |
|
|
| Stretch out? |
|
|
| Slight exaggeration |
|
|
| Minor invention |
|
|
| Don't believe it |
|
|
| Trivial lie. |
|
|
| Untruth. |
|
|
| White lie. |
|
|
| Falsehood |
|
|