More than stretch the truth

The answer

LIE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIE answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; 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 LIE

Every other clue in this collection answered by LIE, most used first.

• Fib - used 158 times, most recently in 2026
• Whopper - used 144 times, most recently in 2026
• Tell tales - used 136 times, most recently in 2026
• Falsehood - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
• Recline - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Tell a whopper - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Prevaricate - used 73 times, most recently in 2024
• Golfer's concern - used 72 times, most recently in 2025
• Tell it like it isn't - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Untruth - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Commit perjury - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Tall tale - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf position - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Be untruthful - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Fish story - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Fabrication - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Stretch the truth - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf ball position - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Tell a fib - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Be situated - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Deception - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Fairway position - used 33 times, most recently in 2021
• Make stuff up - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Perjure oneself - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Tell whoppers - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Be deceitful - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Prevarication - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Fudge the facts - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Golf ball's position - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Tell a tall tale - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "Let sleeping dogs ___" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Tell tall tales - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Be less than truthful - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Fiction - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Links position - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Rest - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• Taradiddle - used 16 times, most recently in 2010
• Use deceit - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Be dishonest - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Palter - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Trumped-up story - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Trygve - used 13 times, most recently in 1980
• Twist the truth - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Big fib - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Equivocate. - used 12 times, most recently in 2010
• Falsification - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Norwegian statesman. - used 12 times, most recently in 1999
• Be prone - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Course position - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• False statement - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• False story - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Piece of fiction - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Stretch out - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Two truths and a ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Blip on a polygraph - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Polygraph exciter - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Risk a perjury rap - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Avoid the truth - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Canard - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Fail a polygraph test - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Former U.N. name. - used 9 times, most recently in 1973
• Golfer's consideration - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• It's not true - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Make something up - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Polygraph detection - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Bit of fiction - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Creative story - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• First U.N. Secretary General - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Perjure - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Serve up a whopper - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Sprawl - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Tell a good one - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Truth decay - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• White ___. - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Bit of baloney - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Extend. - used 7 times, most recently in 1966
• Invention of a sort - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Inventive account - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• It isn't true - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Little white thing - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• ___ low - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Mendacity - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Position of a golf ball. - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
• Speak with a forked tongue - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Tell untruths - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Tiger's position - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Be flat - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Be supine - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of deception - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of slander - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Emulate Pinocchio - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Fabulize - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• False account - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Go flat? - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• It's little when white - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Make it all up - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Make things up - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Rough position? - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Shakira's "Hips Don't ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Story - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Tell stories - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Whopper, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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