Flunking a polygraph
The crossword clue "Flunking a polygraph" is answered by LYING, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LYING
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LYING answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LYING
Every other clue in this collection answered by LYING, most used first.
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