| Telling fibs |
USA Today |
02 Nov 2025 |
| Resting horizontally: - |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
22 Oct 2025 |
| Dissimulation (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Oct 2025 |
| Fibbing |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Duplicity (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Prostrate |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Aug 2025 |
| Being responsible for a (and putting round a) fabrication (5) |
|
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| Deceptively situated |
|
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| Not telling the truth |
Universal |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Prone to deceit? |
|
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| Making false statements |
|
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| Prone to storytelling? (5) |
|
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| Remaining dishonest |
|
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| Fibbing |
The Times Concise |
11 Jul 2025 |
| Dishonesty on the floor, perhaps |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
03 Jul 2025 |
| Fish bit the fly finally - you're not telling the truth (5) |
|
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| Fibbing |
The Telegraph Mini |
29 Jun 2025 |
| Prone to be misleading (5) |
|
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| Not standing untruths (5) |
|
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| Taking a rest from being truthful (5) |
|
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| Telling fibs |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 May 2025 |
| Telling untruths when resting? (5) |
|
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| Bluffing |
LA Times Daily |
01 May 2025 |
| Addicted to pork pies? (5) |
|
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| Duplicitous (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Misrepresenting flat (5) |
|
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| Not straight |
New York Times |
11 Apr 2025 |
| Telling untruths(5) |
|
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| Being dishonest (5) |
Puzzler |
04 Apr 2025 |
| Reclining |
Premier Sunday |
23 Mar 2025 |
| E.g. prone to falsehood? (5) |
|
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| Reclining telling stories (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
08 Mar 2025 |
| Dishonesty at work to dispel pressure (5) |
|
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| In a relaxed position retailing pork pies? |
|
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| Rushing to dismiss loud fabrication |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 Feb 2025 |
| Telling fibs |
Newsday |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Prone to be untruthful (5) |
|
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| Two-faced |
New York Times |
24 Feb 2025 |
| Making up in bed, perhaps (5) |
|
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| Telling untruths unknown in fish (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Not standing for being mendacious (5) |
|
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| Telling a story to in bed, perhaps (5) |
|
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| Taking a rest from veracity (5) |
|
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| Telling untruths |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Jan 2025 |
| Head off, travelling by plane and telling stories (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
08 Jan 2025 |
| Prone to be misrepresenting the facts (5) |
|
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| Ricky Gervais comedy, The Invention of ___-- (5) |
|
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| Some family in Germany telling fibs (5) |
|
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| Being untruthful |
The Sun Mini |
02 Dec 2024 |
| con artist's skill |
|
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| Kelly in Greggs keeps serving up Whoppers! (5) |
|
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| Prone to be departing from the facts (5) |
|
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| Lounging somewhat drunkenly in Goa (5) |
|
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| Telling a whopper (5) |
|
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| Being mendacious (5) |
|
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| Don't start flying supine! (5) |
|
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| Is situated in a way that's untruthful (5) |
|
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| Prone to telling stories (5) |
|
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| Being false when prostrate? (5) |
|
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| Prone to perjury (5) |
|
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| Some bully in green being untruthful |
|
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| Prone to be distorting the facts (5) |
|
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| Resting on bed |
|
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| Reclining horizontally (5) |
|
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| Certainly not upright or truthful (5) |
|
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| Mendacious (5) |
Puzzler |
14 Sep 2024 |
| Dishonesty only in Government's division (5) |
|
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| Supine untruthfulness (5) |
|
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| Being horizontal |
|
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| Heading off, speeding and telling stories (5) |
|
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| Telling untruths |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Sep 2024 |
| Not standing for being dishonest (5) |
|
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| Being dishonest, engaging in folly in Galway |
|
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| Mendacious |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Guilty of deception at length (5) |
|
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| Making quick getaway, dodging fine for dishonesty |
|
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| Telling tall tales |
New York Times |
13 Aug 2024 |
| Relaxing, retailing pork pies |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Aug 2024 |
| Deceitful (5) |
Puzzler |
22 Jul 2024 |
| Being dishonest |
USA Today |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Deceitful, dishonest (5) |
|
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| PlusWord No 789 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Telling stories - some only in German |
|
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| Not standing for falsehoods? (5) |
|
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| Prostrate through untruthfulness? (5) |
|
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| Dishonesty currently in government? Not altogether (5) |
|
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| Mendacious (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
14 Jun 2024 |
| Pinocchio's verbal practice (5) |
|
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| 2009 comedy movie with Ricky Gervais, The Invention of ___-- (5) |
|
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| As it's recumbent, it should not be believed (5) |
|
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| Is prone to untruth? |
|
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| Fabricator's forte |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Jun 2024 |
| Telling falsehoods ? some only in German |
|
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| Telling mistruths (5) |
|
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| Being deceptive, is not stood up (5) |
|
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| Being deceptive, one is not stood up (5) |
|
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| In a supine or prostrate position |
|
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| Why Pinocchio's nose grows |
New York Times |
30 Apr 2024 |
| In a horizontal position (5) |
|
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| Prostrating oneself; not telling the truth (5) |
|
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| Not standing for falsehood (5) |
|
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| Is not up to being untruthful (5) |
|
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| Telling tales such as 'piloting jets without a wing' |
|
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| Telling tibs (5) |
|
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| Untruthfulness(5) |
|
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| Telling a fib |
|
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| Resting and being mendacious (5) |
|
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| Insinuating no rascal is telling tales (5) |
|
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| Being deceptive about resting (5) |
|
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| Telling a story to in bed? (5) |
|
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| Deceitful |
The Guardian Quick |
16 Mar 2024 |
| "The Invention of ___"; 2009 Ricky Gervais film |
|
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| Prone to mendacity |
|
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| Not standing for untruthfulness (5) |
|
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| Untrustworthy in bed, perhaps? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
26 Feb 2024 |
| Committing perjury, e.g. |
|
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| Prone to fabricating (5) |
|
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| Said why Heather's clothing is not straight |
The Times Cryptic |
16 Feb 2024 |
| Prone to being deceitful |
|
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| Being deceitful |
Newsday |
31 Jan 2024 |
| Mendacious |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Jan 2024 |
| Telling stories in bed, perhaps (5) |
|
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| Positioned prominently in group's sample |
The Guardian Quiptic |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Positioned prominently in group's sample (5) |
|
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| Crooked and heartless lackey in government... (5) |
|
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| Very quick, missing fine story-telling |
|
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| Ricky Gervais comedy, The Invention of ----- (5) |
|
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| Telling fibs |
Puzzler Backwords |
03 Dec 2023 |
| Mendacious bit of reclining? (5) |
|
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| Not telling the truth |
USA Today |
18 Nov 2023 |
| Deception from wally in Government |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Nov 2023 |
| Prostrate |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Nov 2023 |
| Problem for Pinocchio |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Oct 2023 |
| Untruthful |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Oct 2023 |
| Fibbing |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Untrustworthy |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Oct 2023 |
| In a recumbent position |
New York Times |
18 Sep 2023 |
| 'I'd love to hang out some time, no ___!' |
New York Times |
30 Aug 2023 |
| Mendacity |
The Times Concise |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Prone to dishonesty |
The Guardian Cryptic |
14 Aug 2023 |
| Fibbing |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Prone or supine? |
The Guardian Quick |
08 May 2023 |
| Prevaricating |
New York Times |
07 May 2023 |
| Full of beans |
LA Times Daily |
07 Apr 2023 |
| Deliberate fabrication |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Apr 2023 |
| Creating pork pies from fish with unknown filling |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Mar 2023 |
| "Stop ___" ("tell the truth") |
|
|
| Not moving fish nets close to quay |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Feb 2023 |
| Duplicitous |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Jan 2023 |
| Telling falsehoods |
Newsday |
18 Jan 2023 |
| Prone to dishonesty? |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Oct 2022 |
| Remaining untruthful |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Aug 2022 |
| Deceitful probably, inglorious hosts |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Aug 2022 |
| Mendacious |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jul 2022 |
| Pretence with intent to deceive |
The Guardian Quick |
21 May 2022 |
| It's stretching the truth to say Bob has no part in lobbying |
Irish Times Crosaire |
28 Apr 2022 |
| Not standing up for the truth? |
|
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| Not standing up for the truth? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
18 Apr 2022 |
| Not standing as a politician, many would assume? |
|
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| Not standing as a politician, many would assume? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
22 Mar 2022 |
| Prone, racing, to go to topless |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Mar 2022 |
| Prone, racing, to go to topless |
|
|
| Deceitful |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Oct 2021 |
| Being deceitful |
Universal |
13 Sep 2021 |
| Deviating from the truth |
Irish Times Simplex |
09 Sep 2021 |
| Telling untruths |
The Times Concise |
02 Sep 2021 |
| Leaning back and spinning tales |
|
|
| It's stretching the truth to say Bob has no part in lobbying |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Jul 2021 |
| 'You aren't ___!' |
New York Times |
06 Jul 2021 |
| Banking not about to be providing dodgy data? |
|
|
| Spinning a yarn |
USA Today |
03 Jun 2021 |
| Telling porkies |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 May 2021 |
| Pinocchio's problem |
LA Times Daily |
10 May 2021 |
| Pinocchio's problem |
The Washington Post |
10 May 2021 |
| Horizontal |
New York Times |
08 May 2021 |
| It's stretching the truth to say Bob has no part in lobbying |
Irish Times Crosaire |
11 Feb 2021 |
| Deception from Emily in Godalming |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Being untruthful |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Not upstanding, in either sense of the word |
New York Times |
18 Jan 2021 |
| Dropping introduction to brief is being dishonest |
|
|
| Working steadily? Not at first, that would be mendacious |
|
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| Telling fibs |
USA Today |
18 Aug 2020 |
| Prone, possibly, to be retailing pork pies? |
|
|
| Yankee catching fish? On the contrary -- fibbing |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Aug 2020 |
| Prostrate |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Jul 2020 |
| Deception from Connolly in Glasgow |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Jul 2020 |
| Mendacious |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Twisting the truth |
|
|
| Making stuff up |
USA Today |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Telling untruths |
The Times Concise |
23 May 2020 |
| Limits to liability in Government's initial misrepresentation |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 May 2020 |
| Deviating from the truth |
Irish Times Simplex |
16 Apr 2020 |
| Mendacious |
The Guardian Speedy |
12 Apr 2020 |
| Anything but straight up? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Apr 2020 |
| Not true |
The Washington Post |
03 Apr 2020 |
| Not true |
LA Times Daily |
03 Apr 2020 |
| Telling untruths flat out? |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Apr 2020 |
| Concocting a tale |
|
|
| Prone; fibbing |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Feb 2020 |
| Telling stories, very brief, without introduction |
|
|
| Fabricator’s forte |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Dec 2019 |
| Being deceitful |
Newsday |
02 Dec 2019 |
| Deception from Connolly in Galway |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Nov 2019 |
| After leaving force, brief is serving up Whoppers |
|
|
| Fibbing |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Sep 2019 |
| Prone to fibbing |
|
|
| Not being straight |
Newsday |
09 Aug 2019 |
| In the air? Not initially -- on the ground |
|
|
| Deception from ally in game |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Jun 2019 |
| Telling untruths |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Jun 2019 |
| Not standing for mendacity |
|
|
| Deception from wally in Government |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Apr 2019 |
| Deception from Billy in Gateshead |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Mar 2019 |
| Mendacious |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Mar 2019 |
| Fibbing |
The Times Concise |
06 Mar 2019 |
| Mendacious |
|
|
| Dishonest part of family in Genoa |
|
|
| Tricky working without leader |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Making up stories |
New York Times |
15 Oct 2018 |
| Not up for deceitful action |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Sep 2018 |
| Fish eating Yankee is misleading |
|
|
| Deceitful |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jun 2018 |
| Telling fibs |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Apr 2018 |
| Pinocchio's habit |
The Washington Post Sunday |
15 Apr 2018 |
| Not telling the truth |
The Times Concise |
13 Apr 2018 |
| Being untruthful |
The Times Concise |
09 Apr 2018 |
| In a prone position |
Newsday |
25 Mar 2018 |
| Being unfaithful maybe in bed? |
|
|
| Part of reply, in general dishonest |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Feb 2018 |
| Telling stories in bed? |
|
|
| Dishonest swimmer given unknown injection? |
|
|
| Telling stories mostly in Greek houses |
|
|
| Making up stories |
|
|
| Telling stories in bed, perhaps? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Oct 2017 |
| In no sense upstanding! |
|
|
| Offering "alternative facts" |
USA Today |
13 Aug 2017 |
| Telling untruths |
Family Time |
10 Jul 2017 |
| Stretched out or crooked |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Jun 2017 |
| Fast, but not initially friendly, pork pie delivery? |
|
|
| Telling tales |
|
|
| Invention is airborne without force |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 May 2017 |
| Deceiving |
Universal |
03 May 2017 |
| What causes the circled letters to grow? |
New York Times |
04 Apr 2017 |
| Being prone to dishonesty |
|
|
| Prone to begin fast late |
|
|
| Making stuff up |
The Washington Post |
22 Feb 2017 |
| What causes the circled letters to grow? |
|
|
| Offering "alternative facts" |
|
|
| Deceiving |
|
|
| A romancer specialises in this position in bed? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Prone |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 May 2016 |
| Is in great form off one's head telling fictitious stories |
Irish Times Crosaire |
28 Apr 2016 |
| Telling untruths |
Irish Times Simplex |
26 Apr 2016 |
| Deceitful, doing well to skim off capital |
|
|
| Fabricating |
USA Today |
01 Mar 2016 |
| Flunking a polygraph |
Universal |
01 Mar 2016 |
| Being dishonest |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Feb 2016 |
| Prone to telling fibs |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Feb 2016 |
| Telling tales |
LA Times Daily |
07 Feb 2016 |
| Telling tales |
|
|
| Telling whoppers |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Nov 2015 |
| Mendacious; recumbent |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Nov 2015 |
| Being situated |
Family Time |
02 Nov 2015 |
| Relaxing and telling stories |
|
|
| Flat or crooked? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Sep 2015 |
| Prostrate, perhaps — unlike George Washington? |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Sep 2015 |
| Prone to be telling fibs |
|
|
| Mendacity |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Aug 2015 |
| Prostrate |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jul 2015 |
| Covering up the truth |
Universal |
30 Jun 2015 |
| Stretched out in the air, topless |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 May 2015 |
| Deceitful salesman evades answering |
|
|
| Deception |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Mar 2015 |
| Telling fibs |
Newsday |
26 Jan 2015 |
| Perjury |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Jan 2015 |
| Fabricating |
|
|
| Covering up the truth |
|
|
| Telling fibs |
|
|
| Left Scotch for one German telling stories |
|
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| More than misleading |
|
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| Not upfront |
|
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| Telling it like it isn't |
|
|
| With 58-Across, Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, per a 2003 Al Franken book title |
|
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| Bearing false witness |
|
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| Prone |
|
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| Inventing things |
|
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| Prone |
|
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| "Advertising is legalized __": Wells |
|
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| Deceitful |
|
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| Mendacity |
|
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| Full of baloney |
|
|
| "Advertising is legalized __": Wells |
|
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| Full of baloney |
|
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| Bearing false witness |
|
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| Perjury |
|
|
| Failing the polygraph |
|
|
| Flunking a polygraph |
|
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| Fooling the polygraph |
|
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| Being situated |
|
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| Perjurer's predilection |
|
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| Telling it like it isn't |
|
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| Making things up |
|
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| Pinocchio's problem |
|
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| Two-faced |
|
|
| Being deceitful |
|
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| Dishonest |
|
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| Dishonest |
|
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| Telling stories |
|
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| Pinocchio's problem |
|
|
| Flunking a polygraph |
|
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| Making things up |
|
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| Making things up |
|
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| Yarn-making? |
|
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| Perjury |
|
|
| Telling fibs |
|
|
| Breaking a commandment |
|
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| Telling fibs |
|
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| Untruthful |
|
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| Telling it like it isn't |
|
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| Recumbent |
|
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| Fabricator's forte |
|
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| Mendacity |
|
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| Concocting a tale |
|
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| Not straight? |
|
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| Inventing things |
|
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| Inventing things |
|
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| Prevarication |
|
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| Telling fibs |
|
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| Untruthfulness |
|
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| Untrue |
|
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| Untrue |
|
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| Fisherman's resort? |
|
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| Recumbent |
|
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| Inventing facts |
|
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| Two-faced |
|
|
| Twisting the truth |
|
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| Committing perjury |
|
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| Committing perjury |
|
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| False |
|
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| Pinocchio's problem |
|
|
| Possible cause of a spanking |
|
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| Reason for a spanking, maybe |
|
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| Twisting the truth |
|
|
| Mendacious |
|
|
| Perjuring oneself |
|
|
| Not being straight |
|
|
| Prevaricator's penchant |
|
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| Telling tales |
|
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| Falsifying |
|
|
| Telling tall tales |
|
|
| Flunking a polygraph? |
|
|
| Telling a fish story |
|
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| Fibbing |
|
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| Prevarication |
|
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| Deceiver's activity |
|
|
| Dishonest, in a way |
|
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| Telling fibs |
|
|
| Situated |
|
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| Dishonest |
|
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| ___ in wait (ready to ambush) |
|
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| Untruthful |
|
|
| Situated, as a golf ball |
|
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| Recumbent |
|
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| Staying at anchor |
|
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| False. |
|
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| Extending. |
|
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| Emulating Ananias. |
|
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| Resting (on). |
|
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| Breaking one of the Commandments. |
|
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| Misstating. |
|
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| Full of it |
|
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| Committing perjury. |
|
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| Resting (upon). |
|
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| Deceitful. |
|
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