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Other crossword clues for answer "LIE"

LIE
Fiction
The check is in the mail, often
Course position
Fish story
Flunk a polygraph
Golfer's consideration
Make the polygraph go nuts
Pinocchio's downfall
Sprawl
Swear that black is white
Tell a whopper
Throw the bull
Fairway position
It may be bold-faced
More than stretch the truth
Position for Woods
Truth decay
Whopper
Little white thing
Position at Augusta
Prevaricate
Tell a tall tale
Imprison, in a way
Love the Way You ___ (Eminem ft. Rihanna)
Say "Leaving right now!" while stepping into the shower, say
Deception
Fabrication
Risk a perjury conviction
This clue have no grammatical mistakes, e.g.
Proffer a falsehood
Tell a story?
Grow one's nose
Be perjurious, perhaps
Bullshit cousin
I wouldn't ___ to you, baby / It's mainly a physical thing
Attribute your plagiarism to an imaginary team of 60 crossword constructors, for example
Half-truth, to an absolutist
Talk about your girlfriend whom no one can meet because she lives in Canada, say
The parenthetical comment in 48-Across, e.g.
Bit of BS
Be horizontal
Be totally down?
Tiger's position
Links position
Be prone
Golfer's concern
Ball don't ___ (trash talk from a hoopster)
Fairy tale
I gave at the office, e.g.
I was just about to call you!, e.g.
I wasn't looking at porn, e.g.
Just wrapping up the project, maybe
A white one is little
Engage in some myth-making?
Fail a polygraph test
Imposture
It made Pinocchio's nose grow
It's beyond belief
Make believe
Pull a fast one
Shovel shit
Shovel snow?
Slice of baloney
Tiger's position (read into that clue how you'd like)
Driver's position?
Lame out
Alternative fact
It might cause you to touch your nose
Bullshit
Utter baloney
Fact-checker's headache
Slab of baloney
Golf ball location
Make stuff up
The big ___
Where is the ___?
Serving of baloney
You'd better not believe it
Perjure
Links location
Commit perjury
Early UN bigwig
Anathema to 110 Down
Common invention
Misrepresentation
Overembellish
Be in repose
Embellish the truth
Polygraph activator
Defy a polygraph
Make it all up
Untruth
Polygraph's find
Position on a course
Go beyond embellishment
Situation after driving
Be prone or supine
Pinocchio's undoing
Embellish reality
Flunk the polygraph test, perhaps
Falsehood
Prevarication
Make up facts
The truth in masquerade: Byron
Cover for someone, possibly
Fail the polygraph
Witness-stand no-no
Polygraph no-no
Say what isn't so
Golf-ball position
Sand-trap concern
Make something up
In ___ of (rather than)
Piece of fiction
I didn't know I was speeding, officer, probably
*Björn's victim in the 1976 Wimbledon final
Let sleeping dogs ___
Fish tale
The next clue will be short and sweet, I promise you, e.g.
Not stand
Campaign staple, to many
Cover story?
Some people do it face-down
Don't go straight
Don't stand, maybe
Per Sophocles, it "never lives to be old"
Résumé no-no
Tell it like it isn't
Not be the best eyewitness
PolitiFact judgment
Would I ___ To You? (Eurythmics tune)
Blip on the polygraph, maybe
Rough problem?
Tell a good one
Tell tall tales
Baldfaced bit
Create whoppers
Stretch the truth
Tale
Good one, so to speak
Polygraph indication, maybe
Test a polygraph, perhaps
Type of detector
What a polygraph test may reveal
Break a witness stand oath
Convey a false impression
Perjure oneself
Polygraph's disclosure
Cooked-up story
Intentional inaccuracy
Links situation
Speak with forked tongue
Thing to do in waiting?
The world's longest parking lot (abbr.)
Get prone
It's cooked up
Polygraph wave, maybe
Polygraph wave, perhaps
Tell tales
Titleist's position
Use a little bit of make-up?
Rest, dog-style
A white one is small
Engage in mendacity
Fudge the facts
Cock-and-bull story
Falsification
Whopper you can't eat
Challenge a polygraph
Polygraph detection
Risk a perjury charge
Statement from Pinocchio
A small one is white
Bit of deception
Misstatement
Twist the truth
Terminological inexactitude, to Churchill
Alibi, maybe
Be a make-up artist?
Bit of disinformation
Make like a rug
Post-drive position
Rest in a horizontal position
A ___ of the Mind (Sam Shepard drama)
Bit of baloney
Disappoint the Blue Fairy, in a way
Golfer's position
It may be caught by a polygraph
Basis for a libel suit
Courtroom taboo
Deceitful declaration
Fail a polygraph
Go flat?
Little white item?
Polygraph blip, presumably
It can be white or bald-faced
It makes Pinocchio's nose grow
Pinocchio peccadillo
Rest horizontally
Risk a perjury rap
Tell a fib
Crooked line?
Excuse, sometimes
Polygraph's target
Song and dance, perhaps
Big fib
Go prostrate
It's not a ___ if you believe it: George Costanza
A naïf might buy one
Be un-50-Across
Go prone
Say the wrong thing?
On my way, often
Golf position
Tall tale
It wasn't me, in the song "It Wasn't Me", e.g.
Statement not likely to receive the Geppetto Checkmark from WaPo's Fact Checker
Recline
Flimflam
Exaggeration
Fib
Pebble Beach position
Stretch a point
Woods' position
Are situated
Excuse, at times
Links condition
Serve up a whopper
Taradiddle
Yarn spinning result
One of a pack, perhaps
Rest
Be false
Pack animal?
A little bull
Become prone
Perjurer's answer
Story of Pinocchio?
Barefaced utterance
Conceal the truth
It may be white
Call a spade a club?
Relax
Stretch out
Be tactful, perhaps
Lounge
Alibi, perhaps
Courtroom revelation
One might precede "Not!"
There's no truth to it
You might find a bad one in the rough
Alibi, at times
Fairway situation
Invention
It's made up
One may do it through one's teeth
Story, maybe
Way the ball sits
Tell stories
Be untruthful
It's not true
-
Amateur golfer's score, perhaps
Henry Blake's rank in "M*A*S*H*"
It's not good to get caught in one
Landlocked Alpine principality
Links concern
Blow smoke
Distortion, perhaps
Fib, e.g.
Pack item?
Concern on the course
It may influence which club you choose
Pinocchio's peccadillo
Tell a tale
Whopper, e.g.
Concern in the rough
More than a fib
One in a pack?
__ Down In Darkness: Styron novel
A bad one can raise one's score
Be supine
Moment of dishonesty
Unconvincing excuse, probably
One of a rat's pack?
Twist facts
Deliberate omission, some say
It's little when it's white
Whopper, but not a Big Mac
You might get a bad one in the rough
Be an incredible speaker?
Hips Don't __: Shakira hit
It's not you, it's me, maybe
Blip on a polygraph, maybe
Bit of perjury
Factor in club selection
Factor in golf club selection
Make up a story, maybe
More-than-stretchy statement
Fail to be straight
Speak like a rug?
Fish story, so to speak
Shakira's "Hips Don't __"
More than a stretch
Relax, maybe
Tell tales, maybe
On my way! text, maybe
Two truths and a __: icebreaker game
Today's Wordle word is TRUE, e.g.
Be deceitful
Blip on a polygraph
Golf ball's position
Placement, on the links
Trumped-up story
__ low (stay hidden)
First UN head
First UN secretary- general
Golf situation
Hammarskjold's predecessor
Norwegian statesman
Be situated
Important name in UN history
Be deceptive
Break an oath
Be duplicitous
Be mendacious
Fairway location
Rumor, often
Situation for Tiger
Stay prone
Be positioned
Dissemble
Fabricate
Disregard the truth
Position for Palmer
State what's not so
Outright fabrication
Rest, with "by"
Say what's not so
See 52 Across
Trumped-up tale
Go beyond embroidery
Pinocchio no-no
Tell fibs
Position, in golf
Use a chaise longue
Weave a tangled web
Invention of a sort
Tell a big one
White __
Canard
Deliberate falsification
Fictitious account
False tale
It's not so
Thing in some packs
Spin yarns
__ low
Fabricate one's facts
Stretch things too far
Twist the facts
Call a spade a diamond
False account
Tell an untruth
Tell untruths
Be grounded
Club-selection factor
Deliberate misstatement
Exercise tact, perhaps
Incorrect affirmation
Overstretch
Become horizontal
Fabricated statement
Tell whoppers
Total fabrication
What you'd be embarrassed to be called on
Whopper of a tale
See 62 Down
False statement
Very tall tale
What Huck Finn called a "stretcher"
Back down?
Depart from the facts
False story
Inveracity
Unlikely story, likely
Overstretch yourself
Remain prone
Tell false tales
Trust buster
Make an untrue assertion
Tell it like it ain't
Just what I wanted, often
Oral fabrication
Duffer's concern
Rough position
Be a prevaricator
Palter
Be a false witness
Polygrapher's detection
Utter a falsehood
Be prostrate
Fanciful story
Story
Misstate the facts
What a polygraph might detect
The check is in the mail, maybe
Be flat
Nassau County hwy.
Polygraphist's detection
Tell a falsehood
___ detector (polygraph)
Bear false witness
To credit his own ___.—The Tempest.
DNB report.
Create a wrong impression.
Hitlerian statement.
Norwegian U. N. official.
Recent traveler through Europe.
Secretary General of UNO.
Secretary General, U. N.
U. N. official.
Trygve ___.
World Citizen No. 1.
Children and fools cannot ___.”—John Heywood. nyt 1948 LIE Fish story. nyt 1948 LIE U. N. Secretary General. nyt 1948 LIED German song. nyt 1948 LIED Told a whopper. nyt 1948 LIEGE Fortress city of Belgium. nyt 1948 LIEGE Historic city of Belgium. nyt 1948 LIEN Legal claim on property. nyt 1948 LIENS Legal claims. nyt 1948 LIERNE Type of rib in Gothic vaulting. nyt 1948 LIES Told by Nessus. nyt 1948 LIGHTERAGES Fees for transporting freight in or about harbors. nyt 1948 LIL Diamond ___” with Mae West.
U. N. Secretary-General.
U.N. personage.
A U. N. veteran.
He commutes between Oslo and New York.
His U. N. job is extended for three years.
Peacemaker from Oslo.
Stretch.
Entrance requirement for the Tall Story Club.
Russia opposed his U. N. reappointment.
Technique of the "Big ___."
The U. N.'s Trygve.
Top UN-er.
U. N. leader.
U. N. personality.
U. N. spokesman.
U. N. veteran.
White ___.
I can't tell a ___.
Truth crushed to earth.” nyt 1952 LIE Famous name in the U. N. nyt 1952 LIE Norse diplomat. nyt 1952 LIE Norwegian diplomat. nyt 1952 LIE One of world's key statesmen. nyt 1952 LIE Statesman from Norway. nyt 1952 LIE Trygve Halvdan ___. nyt 1952 LIE U. N. Secretary General. nyt 1952 LIE U. N. personality. nyt 1952 LIEABED Habitual late-riser. nyt 1952 LIED A song in Hamburg. nyt 1952 LIED Conveyed a false impression. nyt 1952 LIED German song. nyt 1952 LIEDER Items on Lotte Lehmann programs. nyt 1952 LIEGE Belgian fortress city. nyt 1952 LIEN A charge on property. nyt 1952 LIEN Claim against property: Law. nyt 1952 LIEN Legal claim. nyt 1952 LIEN Mortgage. nyt 1952 LIEN Security for payment. nyt 1952 LIENOR Holder of a legal charge. nyt 1952 LIER A recumbent. nyt 1952 LIER One concealed, who waits. nyt 1952 LIES Falsehoods. nyt 1952 LIES Fish stories. nyt 1952 LIES Perjuror's output. nyt 1952 LIEST Say falsely: Poet. nyt 1952 LIEU Place or stead. nyt 1952 LIFE Biography. nyt 1952 LIFEBELTS Relatives of Mae Wests. nyt 1952 LIFER Long-term inmate. nyt 1952 LIFER Man sentenced under the Baumes Law. nyt 1952 LIFESAVER An opportune rescuer. nyt 1952 LIFT Elevator in London. nyt 1952 LIFTER Strong man. nyt 1952 LIGATED Tied with a band. nyt 1952 LIGHTMETER Helpful accessory for a photographer. nyt 1952 LIGN Wood: Comb. form. nyt 1952 LIKE Word in a current slogan. nyt 1952 LIKENER Comparer. nyt 1952 LIKENS Compares. nyt 1952 LIKES Enjoys. nyt 1952 LIL Girl's nickname. nyt 1952 LIL ___ Abner. nyt 1952 LIL ___ Abner. nyt 1952 LILA Girl's name. nyt 1952 LILA Girl's name. nyt 1952 LILA Girl's name. nyt 1952 LILA Miss Lee of Hollywood. nyt 1952 LILA Miss Lee of Hollywood. nyt 1952 LILA Miss Lee, actress. nyt 1952 LILAC Flower called the prince's-feather. nyt 1952 LILAC Flower. nyt 1952 LILAC State flower of New Hampshire. nyt 1952 LILAC Time to come down to Kew."
Dag's predecessor.
Position of a golf ball on the ground.
U. N. name.
Whom Dag Hammarskjold succeeds.
Author of "In the Cause of Peace."
Extend.
False action.
Former U. N. personality.
Ananias story.
Former U. N. official.
Former V. I. P. in U. N.
Norwegian V. I. P.
Oslo notable.
Position of a golf ball.
Relative situation of a golf ball.
V. I. P. from 56 Down.
Equivocate.
Former U.N. Secretary General.
Mendacity.
Lodge.
Norwegian notable.
Occupy a certain place.
Oslo VIP.
Oslo statesman.
Extend, as a road.
Noted Norwegian.
Say black is white.
Former U. N. parsonage.
Position of the ball, in golf.
Relative of half-truth.
Falsity.
___ detector.
Former U. N. notable.
Golf term.
Trygve.
Former U.N. name.
Occupy a position.
Golfer's term.
Lean or press (on).
White item.
___ doggo (keep out of sight).
Name of U.N. fame.
Famous U.N. name.
Relative of a half-truth.
Famed U.N. name.
Famous Norwegian.
Name in U.N. records.
Stay at anchor.
Word before down or low.
___ low (hide).
Name in U.N. lore
Position of golf ball
Give the ___ to
Golfer's problem
Position
Stay put
___ low
Be misleading
Fabulize
Kind of detector
Munchausen uttering
Munchausen utterance
Tall story
Emulate Pinocchio
Misinformation
___ in wait
___ in ambush
Would I ___?
Mistell
Norwegian diplomat
Trygve of U.N.
U.N. secretary
___ at anchor
Deceive
Take a recumbent position
Tarradiddle
Trygve of U.N. fame
Munchausen's specialty
Twisted tale
U.N. name of fame
Be couchant
First Secretary General of the U.N.
One of Tom Watson's concerns
Memorable Norwegian diplomat
A Crenshaw concern
One of Ray Floyd's concerns
Concern for Crenshaw
Hammarskjöld's predecessor
Barefaced thing
George's no-no
Emulate Ananias
Location of a golfer's ball
Practice deception
Trygve of the U.N.
A ___ of the Mind, Shepard drama
Eli anagram
Falsify
Nose grower for Pinocchio
___ in wait (lurk)
Fudge on the facts
Baron Munchausen whopper
Emulate 56 Across
It's usually white when it's little
George Washington no-no
Stretch the truth or stretch out
Baldfaced___
Command to Rover
One of a pack?
The check is in the mail, perhaps
You wouldn't want to be caught in one
Invention, so to speak
Remain
Stay flat
The dog ate my homework is a classic one
Be a bad witness
Be untrustworthy
Be less than candid
Bit of slander
It may be analyzed before a stroke
Many an excuse
More than an exaggeration
One might get caught in it
Stretch or stretch out
Weave a tangled web, say
Weigh (on)
With 20-Across, receive a posthumous honor
Large amount of fudge?
Practice tact, perhaps
Something bad to be caught in
Tell falsehoods
Bad testimony
This puzzle is really, really hard, e.g.
Interrogator's discovery
Invention that's not thought highly of
Made-up story
Say A is not A, say
Creative story
Interrogator's red-flag raiser
One may be caught in it
I cannot tell a ___
The dog ate my homework, maybe
Doctored account
It's not to be believed
Fish tale, essentially
It may be part of a pack
Part of a pack?
Rewrite history, in a way
See 102-Down
The dog ate my homework, probably
Potentially slanderous remark
See 77-Across
Sprawl, say
What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain
I promise I won't laugh, often
I was stuck in traffic, maybe
No ___!
Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week, e.g.
A white one might be excused
Create an account?
A ___ cannot live: Martin Luther King Jr.
Bit of jive
Golf commentator's subject
Not shoot straight
Say "I do" when you don't?
With "in" and 60-Down, prepare for an ambush
Well, I'd love to keep talking ..., probably
Bit of flimflam
Fictionalize?
Make baloney?
Not be straight
Perjurious statement
Sleep (with)
Tall one
I already have other plans, often
Your table will be ready in five minutes, possibly
Be on the level?
Bit of fiction
Cover for someone, say
It's not the truth
PolitiFact finding
Bald-faced thing
This puzzle is relatively easy, say
Be idle
Bit of fake news
Get down, in a way
No ___ can live forever: Martin Luther King Jr.
This is not the last clue in this puzzle, e.g.
It can be white or boldfaced
Some do it through their teeth
Something ratable by number of Pinocchios
Stand's opposite ... or a bad thing to do on the stand
That can't be right
Whopper (but not the Burger King kind)
Concoction
Make up a cover story, say
Many an alibi
Something fabulous
I'll be there in five minutes, often
Not gonna ___
Nothing fools you better than the ___ you tell yourself: Teller
Of course I remember you!, often
We ___ loudest when we ___ to ourselves: Eric Hoffer
Dealers do this
Don't believe it!
Take a risk when taking a polygraph test
We ___ the loudest when we ___ to ourselves: Eric Hoffer
Bit of mendacity
Bluff, say
Golf variable
Many people do this about their height
One might be bald-faced
Political fact-checker's verdict, maybe
State fiction as fact
That's not true
Tricky thing to get caught in
What hips don't do, per a Shakira hit
Many do this on the beach
Risky thing to do in an affidavit
What an impostor tries to sell
Word often confused with "lay"
Of course, I remember you!, perhaps
That's a ___!
Get in a corpse pose
Produce whoppers
Show signs of mythomania
Where a golf ball sits
Work of fiction?
Shave some years off your age, e.g.
___ to Me (Tim Roth series)
You ___! (newsworthy 2009 outburst)
Dispense BS
Be a dirty double-crosser
Fool with the facts
Speak with a forked tongue
Be abed
Utter a fib
-- in wait
Utter fibs
Use a bed
Made-up tale
___ to me. But please don't leave Sheryl Crow
___ to me, but please don't leave Crow lyric
DMB "___ in Our Graves"
Deceptive David Cook song?
Simple Plan "Your Love is a ___"
Hips Don't ___ Shakira
This is a ___ The Cure
Untrue Dream Theater song?
Product of "plausible deniability"
U.N. secretary-general, 1946-53
Word in a recent Charlton Heston NRA ad
First U.N. secretary-general, 1946-53
Cook up a whopper?
Sell a whopper?
Sam Shepard play "A ___ of the Mind"
Be full of it
Tell fish stories
Lay it on thick
Position for Couples
First U.N. secretary-general Trygve __
First U.N. Secretary-General Trygve ___
I'd love to, but I already have plans that day, sometimes
Fabulist's creation
What the Washington _Post_ rates with a number of Pinocchios
I'm actually working on it as we speak, often
Statement that should set off one's bullshit detector
What Pinocchio can't hide
What to let sleeping dogs do, proverbially
Bit of makeup?
Statement rated "Pants on Fire" by PolitiFact, e.g.
___ of the Year (PolitiFact distinction)
It isn't true
Links placement
A trivial one is white, they say
Overly mince words
Titleist position
Untrue version of the truth
It's little when white
Putting concern
Ball's position on a golf course
Golf ball placement
A little one is white
Depart from the truth
Distort data
Emulate Iago
It's bold-faced at times
Perjurer's reply
Perjury offense
Inventive account
Not tell the truth
Spread falsehoods
Bald-faced statement
Bit of truth decay
Practice deception, in a way
Bad thing to be caught in
Bald-faced item
Not a good thing to be caught in
Shepard drama "A ___ of the Mind"
Risk a long nose
Tell a tall one
Worst kind of campaign promise
You can do it on your side
Be caught by a polygraph
Make up an alibi
Myth
___ through your teeth
Be less than truthful
Varnished truth
The dog ate my homework, for one
Dispense untruths
He maketh me to ___ down in green ...
I cannot tell a ___ (George Washington's claim)
Fail to be truthful
Risk growing a long nose, like Pinocchio
Golfball locale
Polygraph abnormalities
An untruth
Be dishonest
Be dishonest, in a way
Polygraph indication, sometimes
Make a polygraph go nuts
Deliver a falsehood
False utterance
Get in a prone position
Pull a Pinocchio
Utter falsehood
What a polygraph will disclose
Truth decay unit?
Bad thing to do on a resume
Enjoy a dog bed
Fictional statement
Two Truths and a ___
Verb commonly confused with "lay"
What not to do at a witness stand
___ like a rug
I didn't cheat, perhaps
Do the corpse pose
Harmful invention?
Deceitful statement
No-no on the stand
Violate a court oath
I never saw your text, perhaps
One may be told with fingers crossed
What mythomaniacs do a lot
Half the Truth is often a great ___ (Benjamin Franklin)
Bend the truth
Make up stories
What many do on dating profiles
Cypress Point placement
Position for Pate
Ignore truth
Position in the bunker
Recline or dissimulate
Stay dormant
Tiger s concern
Equivocation, of sorts
Remain unused
Cover up, essentially
Dishonest response
Bad thing to get caught in
What you may get caught in
You may get caught in it
It may be cooked up
Perjurer's offense
Toss the bull
Trumped-up story, essentially
Fail to be honest
The varnished truth
Be deceitful, in a way
The check is in the mail, sometimes
Certain deception
Be less than honest
Deceptive statement
Cooked-up account
Load of baloney
Little white statement
27-Across, often
Churn out whoppers
Invite a perjury rap
Issue fake news, say
Load of bunk
Make things up
Report "fake news"
Bit of fake 33-Down
Break a courtroom oath
Factor in club choice
Position after a drive
Position at the Masters
Say incredible things?
Tell 50-Down
Witness-stand taboo
Somebody told a ___ one day . . . (MLK)
Deceitful words
Dispense with honesty
Engage in a cover-up, perhaps
Polygraph finding
Report fake news, say
What some people do through their teeth
Little white ___
Untrue claim
Be a fibber
Fudge the truth
Untrue statement
Golfer's location
Be recumbent
Become recumbent
Early U.N. chief Trygve
Golfer's challenge
Cause of a growth spurt?
Rough spot?
Stretch, of sorts
Item in a pack?
Pack unit?
Don't be straight
Say something wrong?
Deliberate falsehood
Invent a 62 Across, say
No-no under oath
False claim
Provide fodder for fact-checkers
The check is in the mail, usually
Fabricate, as facts
Fodder for fact-checkers
Fraudulent claim
Perjurious claim
Bit of bad information
Fairway placement
Commit perjury, say
Polygraph exciter
Baloney!
The answer to this clue is an adjective, say
Avoid honesty
Bit of misinformation
Falsify facts
Many a campaign promise
Position at Pebble Beach
See 13-Across
This answer has five letters
Position on the fairway
Whopper, for example
Fabricated story
What sleeping dogs do
Course concern
Deceptive tale
You shouldn't believe it
Avoid facts
Avoid the truth
Be inventive, perhaps
Concocted story
Bit of duplicity
Tell tales that are tall
PolitiFact "honors" the most impactful one each year
Try to sell a cover story
With 63-Across, prepare for an ambush
Commits...
Do a corpse pose, say
Fairway concern
Golf course position
Polygraph indication