Tells a fib
The crossword clue "Tells a fib" is answered by LIES, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LIES
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIES answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LIES
Every other clue in this collection answered by LIES, most used first.
- Falsehoods - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Fibs - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Is situated - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
- Reclines - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
- Isn't truthful - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Untruths - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Commits perjury - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Whoppers - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Prevaricates - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Fabrications - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Disinformation - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Tall tales - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Baloney - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- "Hogwash!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Prevarications - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- Extends. - used 10 times, most recently in 2000
- Fish stories - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Isn't honest - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Perjures - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Doesn't tell the truth - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Tells it like it isn't - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- They may come in a pack - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Deceptions - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Golf ball positions - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Polygraph detections - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Rests - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Some stories - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Stretches the truth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Golf positions - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- "None of that is true!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Tells tales - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Dance that tells a story - HULA, used 20 times
- Told a fib - LIED, used 17 times
- Fib teller - LIAR, used 14 times
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