Crossword Clue: Deceptive tale

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• -- in wait
• 52 to Caesar
• "__ Down In Darkness": Styron novel
• __ low
• ___ at anchor
• ___ detector (polygraph)
• ___ detector
• ___ down on the job (slack off)
• ___ in ambush
• ___ in wait (lurk)
• ___ in wait
• ___ like a rug
• ___ low
• ___ through your teeth
• "___ to me, but please don't leave" Crow lyric
• "___ to me. But please don't leave" Sheryl Crow
• "___ to Me" (Tim Roth series)
• "Barefaced" thing
• Baron Munchausen whopper
• An untruth
• Basis for a libel suit
• "A ___ cannot live": Martin Luther King Jr.
• "A ___ of the Mind" (Sam Shepard drama)
• ''A ___ of the Mind,'' Shepard drama
• "A ___ of the Mind," Shepard drama
• A bad one can raise one's score
• Be a bad witness
• Be a dirty double-crosser
• Be a false witness
• Be a make-up artist?
• Be a prevaricator
• Be an incredible speaker?
• A Crenshaw concern
• Be caught by a polygraph
• Be couchant
• Be deceitful, in a way
• Be deceitful
• Be deceptive
• Be dishonest
• Be dishonest, in a way
• Be false
• Be flat
• Be flat?
• Be grounded
• Be horizontal
• Be idle
• Be in a horizontal position
• A fib is a small one
• Be less than candid
• Be less than honest
• Be less than truthful
• Be mendacious
• Be misleading
• Be on the level?
• Be perjurious, perhaps
• Be positioned
• Be prone or supine
• Be prone
• Be prostrate
• Be recumbent
• Be situated
• Be supine
• Be tactful, perhaps
• Be untrustworthy
• Be untruthful
• A little bull?
• A little bull
• A little one is white
• Bear false witness
• A small one is white
• Become horizontal
• A trivial one is white, they say
• Become prone
• A white one is little
• A white one is small
• Bend the truth
• Arnie's position
• Big fib
• Big fish story
• Bit of bad information
• Bit of baloney
• Bit of deception
• Bit of duplicity
• Bit of fake news
• Bit of fiction
• Bit of flimflam
• Bit of jive
• Bit of mendacity
• Bit of misinformation
• Bit of perjury
• Bit of slander
• Bit of truth decay?
• Bit of truth decay
• Björn's victim in the 1976 Wimbledon final
• Avoid attention, ... low
• Avoid honesty
• Avoid the truth
• Blip on a polygraph
• Blow smoke
• Back down?
• Alibi, at times
• Alibi, maybe
• Alibi, perhaps
• Bad testimony
• Bad thing to be caught in
• Bad thing to do on a resume
• Bad thing to get caught in
• Bald-faced bit
• Bald-faced item
• Bald-faced statement
• "Bald-faced" thing
• Bald-faced thing
• Baldfaced ___
• Baldfaced bit
• Baldfaced thing
• "Ball don't ___" (trash talk from a hoopster)
• "Alternative fact"
• Ball's position on a golf course
• "Baloney!"
• Amateur golfer's score, perhaps
• False account
• False-hood
• False statement
• False story
• False tale
• False utterance
• Falsehood
• Falsehood or rest on bed
• Falsification
• Falsify facts
• Falsify
• Falsity
• Duffer's concern
• "Hips Don't ___" Shakira
• "Hips Don't ___" (song by Shakira)
• Intentionally false statement
• Fanciful story
• Commit perjury, say
• Commit perjury
• Interrogator's discovery
• Interrogator's red flag raiser
• Interrogator's red-flag raiser
• Invent a story
• Invention, of a sort
• Invention of a sort
• Invention, so to speak
• Invention that's not thought highly of
• Invention
• Inventive account
• Inveracity
• Debunked claim
• Invite a perjury rap
• Deceit
• Deceitful declaration
• Deceitful words
• Deceive
• Deception
• Deceptive account
• Deceptive David Cook song?
• Deceptive statement
• Deceptive tale
• Certain deception
• Certain kind of alibi
• Break a courtroom oath
• Break a witness-stand oath
• Deliberate falsification
• Deliberate misstatement
• Deliberate omission, some say
• Deliberate untruth
• Challenge a polygraph
• Deliver a falsehood
• Feed a line of BS
• Conceal the truth
• Fudge facts
• Fudge on the facts
• Fudge the facts
• Fudge the truth
• Concern for Crenshaw
• Concern in the rough
• Issue fake news, say
• Concern on the course
• Grow one's nose
• Concoction
• It can be bald-faced
• It can be white or bald-faced
• It can be white or boldfaced
• Depart from the facts
• Depart from the truth
• Fib big-time
• Fib, e.g.
• Fib
• Fiction
• Fictional statement
• Fictionalize?
• Fictitious account
• It isn't true
• It made Pinocchio's nose grow
• Gwen Stefani "Baby Don't ___"
• It makes Pinocchio's nose grow
• It may be analyzed before a stroke
• It may be caught by a polygraph
• It may be cooked up
• Detector detection, ostensibly
• Detector detection
• It may be part of a pack
• Eli anagram
• It may be white or bold-faced
• It may be white
• It may influence which club you choose
• It might be bald-faced
• Embellish reality
• It might be white
• It might cause you to touch your nose
• Cooked-up account
• Cooked-up story
• Half-truth, to an absolutist
• Emulate Ananias
• Hammarskjöld's predecessor
• Hammarskjold's predecessor.
• Hammarskjold's predecessor
• Emulate Iago
• Emulate many a politician
• Emulate Pinocchio
• Bullshit cousin
• Bunch of baloney
• Item in a pack?
• It's beyond belief
• It's bold-faced at times
• George Washington no-no
• George's no-no
• Dirty, stinkin' item, perhaps
• Engage in a cover-up, perhaps
• Engage in mythomania
• Disappoint the Blue Fairy, in a way
• Engage in some myth-making?
• It's cooked up
• First Secretary General of the U.N.
• Churn out whoppers
• "I already have other plans," often
• It's exposed in a Snopes article
• First UN secretary-general
• First U.N. Secretary General
• Harmful invention?
• "I cannot tell a ___"
• "I cannot tell a ___" (George Washington's claim)
• ''I cannot tell a ___''
• "I didn't cheat," perhaps
• "I didn't know I was speeding, officer," probably
• "I gave at the office," e.g.
• Enjoy a dog bed
• Fish story, so to speak
• Fish story
• Fish tale, essentially
• Fish tale
• Dishonest response
• It's little when it's white
• It's little when white
• It's made up
• Course concern
• Get down, in a way
• Course position
• Get in a prone position
• It's not a freaking "alternative fact"
• It's not good to get caught in one
• It's not so
• It's not the truth
• It's not to be believed
• It's not true
• Dispense BS
• Dispense untruths
• Dispense with honesty
• Display dishonesty
• "I was just about to call you!," e.g.
• Get prone
• Courtroom revelation
• Courtroom taboo
• Disregard the truth
• Get supine
• Cover for someone, say
• Cover up, essentially
• Distort data
• Distortion, perhaps
• It's usually white when it's little
• DMB "___ in Our Graves"
• Equivocate
• If one is white, it's no big deal
• If one is white, then it's little
• Call a spade a diamond
• Do a make-up job?
• Ignore truth
• Do nothing...or do something and say you're doing nothing
• Create fiction, say
• Do the corpse pose
• Creative story
• Doctored account
• "He maketh me to ___ down in green ..."
• Give the ___ to
• Canard
• Imposture
• Crooked line?
• In ___ of (rather than)
• Go beyond embroidery
• Go beyond fudging
• Club selection factor
• Club-selection factor
• Go flat?
• Don't believe it!
• Don't believe it
• Don't tell the truth
• Excuse, at times
• Excuse, sometimes
• Exercise tact, perhaps
• Cock-and-bull story
• Incorrect affirmation
• Henry Blake's rank in "MASH"
• Explosive stuff
• Golf ball location
• Golf ball placement
• Golf ball position
• Golf-ball position
• Golf ball's position
• Golf commentator's subject
• Golf position
• Golf situation
• Golfball locale
• Golfer's concern
• Golfer's consideration
• Golfer's position
• Golfer's problem
• Golfer's term
• Cypress Point placement
• Dag's predecessor.
• Fabricate
• Fabricated statement
• Fabricated story
• Fabrication
• Fabulize
• Former U. N. name
• Former U.N. name.
• Former U.N. name
• Factor in club choice
• Factor in club selection
• Factor in golf-club selection
• Factor in golf club selection
• Fail a polygraph test, maybe
• Fail a polygraph test, perhaps
• Fail a polygraph test
• Fail a polygraph
• Driver's position?
• Fail the polygraph
• Fail to be honest
• Fail to be truthful
• "Just wrapping up the project," maybe
• Fairway placement
• Fairway position
• Fairway situation
• "Fairy tale"
• Fairy tale
• Come up with a cover story
• Utter a falsehood
• Utter a fib
• Utter falsehood
• Utter fibs
• Pinocchio no-no
• Pinocchio peccadillo
• Pinocchio's downfall
• Pinocchio's misdeed
• Pinocchio's peccadillo
• Pinocchio's undoing
• That can't be right
• Keep out of sight, ... low
• Serve up a whopper?
• Where the golf ball is
• Oscar category
• Risk a long nose
• Risk a perjury charge
• Risk a perjury conviction
• Risk a perjury rap
• Risk growing a long nose, like Pinocchio
• Set off a polygraph
• Varnished truth?
• Varnished truth
• Many a campaign promise
• Pull a fast one
• Pull a Pinocchio
• Many an alibi
• Story, maybe
• Many an excuse
• Story
• Storyteller's tale
• "The answer to this clue is an adjective," say
• Toss the bull
• Some do it through their teeth
• White __
• "White ____"
• Total fabrication
• "The big ___."
• Verb commonly confused with "lay"
• Outright fabrication
• "The check is in the mail," maybe
• ''The check is in the mail,'' maybe
• "The check is in the mail," often
• "The check is in the mail," perhaps
• "The check is in the mail," sometimes
• Shakira's "Hips Don't __"
• Whom Dag Hammarskjold succeeds.
• Stretch a point
• Stretch, of sorts
• Stretch or stretch out
• Stretch out
• Stretch the truth or stretch out
• Stretch the truth
• Stretcher, to Huck Finn
• Whopper
• Whopper, but not a Big Mac
• Whopper (but not the Burger King kind)
• Whopper, e.g.
• Whopper, for example
• Whopper of a tale
• Whopper, so to speak
• Whopper you can't eat
• Overly mince words
• Placement, on the links
• Kind of detector
• Overstretch
• Very tall tale
• "The dog ate my homework," for one
• "The dog ate my homework" is a classic one
• "The dog ate my homework," maybe
• "The dog ate my homework," probably
• Shave some years off your age, e.g.
• Putting concern
• Pack member?
• "Somebody told a ___ one day . . ." (MLK)
• Something bad to be caught in
• Something fabulous
• Shepard drama ''A ___ of the Mind''
• Munchausen utterance
• Munchausen uttering
• Munchausen's specialty
• Something ratable by number of Pinocchios
• Something that could be proven false
• Something that's not true
• Palter
• Song and dance, perhaps
• Rough position
• Rough position?
• Links concern
• Links placement
• Links position
• Links situation
• Myth
• Witness stand taboo
• Witness-stand taboo
• Shovel shit
• Shovel snow?
• Name in U.N. lore
• The varnished truth
• Part of a pack?
• Trumped-up story, essentially
• Trumped-up story
• Trumped-up tale
• Ramones "Gonna have it all tonight, that ain't no ___"
• PolitiFact finding
• Little white ___ (fib)
• Little white ___
• Polygraph abnormalities
• Little white item?
• Polygraph blip, presumably
• Polygraph detection
• "Little white" statement
• Little white thing
• Polygraph exciter
• Polygraph finding
• Polygraph indication, sometimes
• Polygraph indication
• Polygraph perturber
• Polygrapher's detection
• Polygraphist's detection
• Polygraph's catch
• Polygraph's find
• Polygraph's target
• Lame out
• Nassau County hwy.
• Load of baloney
• Load of bunk
• Load of crap
• Landlocked Alpine principality
• Memorable Norwegian diplomat
• Location of a golfer's ball
• Mendacity
• Large amount of fudge?
• Position after a drive
• Position at Pebble Beach
• Position at the Masters
• Position for Palmer
• Position for Pate
• Position, in golf
• Position in the bunker
• Position of a golf ball on the ground.
• Position of a golf ball
• Position of golf ball
• Position
• Post-drive position
• One in a pack?
• Potentially slanderous remark
• Recline or dissimulate
• Recline
• One may be caught in it
• One may do it through one's teeth
• One might get caught in it
• One might precede "Not!"
• Lay it on thick
• Practice deception, in a way
• Practice deception
• Lot of baloney
• Practice tact, perhaps
• Mike Weir concern
• One of a pack, perhaps
• One of a pack?
• One of a rat's pack?
• Lounge
• One of Ray Floyd's concerns
• "Love the Way You ___" (Eminem hit featuring Rihanna)
• "Love the Way You ___" (Eminem/Rihanna hit)
• One of Tom Watson's concerns
• Relax
• Misinformation
• Misrepresentation
• Remain
• Perjure
• Perjure oneself
• Perjurer's offense
• Perjurer's reply
• Perjurious statement
• Perjury offense
• Misstate the facts
• Misstatement
• Mistell
• "No ___ can live forever": Martin Luther King Jr.
• Let sleeping dogs ___
• "Let sleeping dogs ___"
• No-no on the stand
• Prevaricate
• Prevarication
• Made-up story
• Made-up tale
• Report "fake news"
• Moment of dishonesty
• Rest horizontally
• Rest on bed
• Phony story
• Rest, with "by"
• Rest, with ''by''
• Rest
• Norwegian diplomat
• Make a polygraph go nuts
• Norwegian statesman.
• Nose grower for Pinocchio
• Produce fiction
• Make baloney?
• Make believe
• Not a good thing to be caught in
• Make it all up
• Make like a rug
• Not be straight
• Make something up
• Make stuff up
• Make things up
• Make up a cover story, say
• Make up a story, maybe
• Make up an alibi
• Make up an excuse
• Piece of fiction
• More than a fib
• Rewrite history, in a way
• More than a stretch
• More than an exaggeration
• More than stretch the truth
• More-than-stretchy statement
• Not shoot straight
• Truth decay
• Truth decay unit?
• Truth decay?
• Trygve ___
• Trygve of the U.N.
• Trygve of U.N. fame
• Trygve of U.N.
• Trygve
• There's no truth to it
• Sign of a credibility gap
• Wave on a polygraph, maybe
• Speak badly?
• Speak with a forked tongue
• Speak with forked tongue
• Way the ball sits
• Simple Plan "Your Love is a ___"
• Twist facts
• Twist the facts
• Twist the truth
• Twisted tale
• Weave a tangled web, say
• Weave a tangled web
• Spin yarns
• Two Truths and a ___
• Weigh (on)
• Weir concern
• Weir's concern
• "Well, I'd love to keep talking ...," probably
• Thing in some packs
• Say A is not A, say
• Say "I couldn't solve this clue," say
• Say "I do" when you don't?
• Say incredible things?
• Say it is, when it ain't
• Say something wrong?
• Say "The check is in the mail," maybe
• Say what isn't so
• Say what's not so
• U. N. name.
• U. N. name
• Sprawl, say
• Sprawl
• This answer has five letters
• "This answer is FIB," e.g.
• "This is a ___" The Cure
• "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g.
• Worst kind of campaign promise
• U.N. name of fame
• U.N. name
• "This puzzle is really, really hard," e.g.
• "This puzzle is relatively easy," say
• UN Secretary General
• UN Secretary, once
• U.N. secretary
• Take a recumbent position
• "Would I ___?"
• "Would I ___ to You?" (1985 Eurythmics hit)
• "Would I ___ To You?" (Eurythmics tune)
• Take advantage of the La-Z-Boy, say
• Unconvincing excuse, probably
• What a polygraph might detect
• What a polygraph will disclose
• Tale
• Talk about your girlfriend whom no one can meet because she lives in Canada, say
• Sleep (with)
• What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain
• What caused Pinocchio's nose to grow
• Slice of baloney
• Tall one
• Tall story
• Tall tale
• Stand's opposite ... or a bad thing to do on the stand
• What Huck Finn called a "stretcher"
• Taradiddle
• What makes Pinocchio's nose grow
• Tiger's position (read into that clue how you'd like)
• Tiger's position
• Tarradiddle
• What not to do at a witness stand
• What perjurers do in court
• What sleeping dogs do
• What some people do through their teeth
• Untrue Dream Theater song?
• Untrue statement
• Untrue version of the truth
• Untruth
• Untruthful statement
• "You ___!" (newsworthy 2009 outburst)
• "You ___!" ("That's not true!")
• You can do it on your side
• What you may get caught in
• You may get caught in it
• What you'd be embarrassed to be called on
• You might find a bad one in the rough
• You might get a bad one in the rough
• State falsely
• You shouldn't believe it
• Tell a big one
• Tell a falsehood
• Tell a fib
• Tell a good one
• Tell a "story"
• Tell a story
• Tell a tale
• Tell a tall one
• Tell a tall tale
• Tell a whopper
• Tell an untruth
• You wouldn't want to be caught in one
• Tell falsehoods
• Tell fibs
• Tell it like it isn't
• Tell stories
• Tell tales
• Tell tall tales
• Tell untruths
• State what's not so
• Tell whoppers
• Telltales
• Statement from Pinocchio
• Titleist position
• "Your table will be ready in five minutes," possibly
• Stay dormant
• Stay flat
• Stay in bed, say
• Stay put
• Stead
• Use a bed
• Use a chaise longue
• Use a little bit of make-up?
• Use deceit
• Terminological inexactitude, to Churchill
• "So you're just gonna sit there and ___ to my face?"

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