Stretched the truth

The answer

LIED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIED answer page.

Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• FIBBED (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for LIED

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

• Told a whopper - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• Fibbed - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• German song. - used 44 times, most recently in 2014
• Committed perjury - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Wasn't truthful - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Wasn't honest - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Wasn't straight - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Prevaricated - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Told tales - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Served up a whopper - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Perjured oneself - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Told a fib - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Told whoppers - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Told stories - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Emulated Pinocchio - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Was untruthful - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Was dishonest - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Didn't tell the truth - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Told fibs - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Fudged the facts - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Schubert song - used 10 times, most recently in 2003
• Told an untruth - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Bent the truth - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Made stuff up - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Told a falsehood - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Told a tale - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Was mendacious - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Wasn't forthright - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Emulated Ananias - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• German art song - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "So I ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Told a fish story - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Told a story - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Told it like it wasn't - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Told tall tales - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Twisted the truth - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Was deceitful - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Wasn't true - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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