Minor invention
The crossword clue "Minor invention" is answered by FIB, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FIB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FIB answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FIB
Every other clue in this collection answered by FIB, most used first.
- Little lie - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- White lie - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Little white lie - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Small lie - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Minor misstatement - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Stretch the truth - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Untruth - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Minor untruth - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Bend the truth - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Taradiddle - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Bit of baloney - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Bit of fiction - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Small stretch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Little untruth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Tell tales - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Lie - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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- Minor criticism - NIT, used 30 times
- Minor player - COG, used 30 times
- Minor complaint - NIT, used 24 times
- Minor quibble - NIT, used 19 times
- Groundbreaking invention? - HOE, used 16 times
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