Told fibs
The crossword clue "Told fibs" is answered by LIED, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LIED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIED answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 6 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.
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
- Stretched the truth - used 16 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
- 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.
- Do as you're told - OBEY, used 79 times
- Do as told - OBEY, used 64 times
- Fibs - LIES, used 48 times
- "... ___ I'm told" - ORSO, used 22 times
- Do as one's told - OBEY, used 18 times
- "___ you're told!" - DOAS, used 17 times
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