Answer: LIES
LIES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 230 times.
Referring Clues:
- Propaganda, often
- "Fairy tales"
- Prevaricates
- All hogwash
- Accused's retort
- Equivocator's forte
- Inventions, so to speak
- Falsehoods
- More than fudges
- Golf positions
- Extends
- Untruths
- Commits perjury
- Some Pinocchio pronouncements
- Baloney
- Polygraph detections
- Is prone
- Not just evasions
- Tells it like it isn't
- "Hogwash!"
- Cry before and after "all"
- Epitaph word
- Is positioned
- Inventions
- Fiction collection
- Title start of a 2003 Al Franken best seller
- Empty promises
- Sprawls
- Tall tales
- Stays flat
- "Here ___ ..."
- Cry of vehement denial
- Fish tales
- Storyteller's pack
- Links positions
- Some excuses
- Many campaign promises, it's suspected
- Bunches of bull
- Golf positions, or golf stories, perhaps
- Tells tales
- Perjures oneself
- Pack contents?
- Tells a whopper
- Fairway positions
- Fictional accounts
- Polygraph problems, presumably
- They set off polygraphs
- Is situated (in)
- Rough positions?
- Is untruthful
- Nose lengtheners?
- Is located
- Fabrications
- White ones are little
- Isn't straight
- Whoppers
- Big fibs
- They often come in packs
- Prevarications
- What polygraphs detect
- Is mendacious
- Propaganda, perhaps
- Disinformation
- TV exec Moonves
- Is situated
- Fish stories
- Much propaganda
- Positions at Pebble Beach
- Yarn material?
- White ones are harmless
- Rests
- Some sins
- Covers one's tracks, maybe
- Duplicities
- Some alibis
- Doesn't tell the truth
- Falsities
- Isn't truthful
- Isn't sincere
- Tells stories
- Is deceitful
- ''I don't believe any of it!''
- Whoppers of a sort
- Tells a fib
- Denier's shout
- Isn't forthright
- Isn't honest
- Tells falsehoods
- Fibs
- They may come in a pack
- Too-tall tales
- Misleads
- Deceives
- Taradiddles
- Reposes
- Things that set pants ablaze?
- Tales that are too tall
- Oxymoronic movie title, "True ___"
- Stretches the truth
- Partner of sex and videotape
- Statements in a pack?
- Isn't straight with
- Some disinformation
- Prepares to do sit-ups
- Fibber's output
- What some alibis might be
- Describes the length of a fish
- Tells untruths
- "That's all false, and you know it!"
- "I don't believe any of it!"
- Fabulist's output
- Bad things to tell
- Is deceptive, in a way
- Is supine
- Emphatic denial
- They're not true
- Some stories
- Avoids honesty
- False statements
- Polygraph finds
- 'True ___'
- Polygraph blips
- Deception
- 'All untrue!'
- Tells a falsehood
- Untrue tales
- Rumors, perhaps
- Rumors
- Propaganda, sometimes
- More than stretches
- They sometimes come in a pack
- Claims to have a nonexistent girlfriend, say
- A "pack" of hogwash
- Tells whoppers
- Baloney ingredients
- More than fudges the facts
- Alibis, sometimes
- "Debts and ___ are generally mixed together": Rabelais
- Whoppers?
- Creates an account?
- What alibis might be
- Info from 59 Down
- Rests, with "by"
- Is dishonest, in a way
- Bends the truth
- Fails a polygraph
- Trust busters?
- Golfers' concerns
- "No I never!"
- Promises the moon, say
- Needles' partner
- Embroiders, maybe
- Tells a tall tale
- Pretends fiction is nonfiction
- Fibber's forte
- "What ___ beneath"
- Not just deception
- "It's all false!"
- Trust eroders
- Isn't being truthful
- Slapstick items
- Tells a tale
- "That's utter slander!"
- All baloney
- Is found
- Baloney contents?
- Twists the truth
- Heated denial
- Loads of bull
- "I deny all that!"
- Literally, commits perjury
- Shout of denial
- Polygraph blips, perhaps
- "None of it is true!"
- Reclines
- Golf ball positions
- Total fabrications
- Bits of dishonesty
- Slices of baloney?
- Video game count
- Deceptions
- Strong denial
- What alibis may be
- Changers of Pinocchio's physiognomy
- Tweaks the truth
- "Hope ___ to mortals / And most believe her": Housman
- Rat pack?
- What alibis often are
- Some rulings on PolitiFact
- HBO miniseries "Big Little ___"
- "Not true!"
- U.N.'s trygve and kin
- ___ down (takes a nap, maybe)
- Is supine, e. g.
- Risks a perjury rap
- Hogwash
- Word cried before and after "all"
- They may be bald-faced
- Calumnies
- Untrue stories
- "None of that is true!"
- "Big Little ___"
- They made Pinocchio's nose grow
- Don't believe them!
- "Real eyes realize real ___"
- Tells untrue tales
- False accounts
- "That's false!"
- "That's all false!"
- Debunked statements
- Makes stuff up
- Fairway considerations
- "Balderdash!"
- Perjurious testimony
- Claims rated "four Pinocchios," say
- With 71- and 72-Across, commits perjury … or what can be found four times in this puzzle
- Claims that won't pass a fact check
- Speaks dishonestly
- Don't get caught in them!
- "It's all untrue!"
- "Those are deceitful words!"
- "Not so!"
- "The check is in the mail" and "The dog ate my homework," famously
- "False!"
- Shares one's bunk?
- Rough positions
- "History is a set of ___ agreed upon" (remark attributed to Napoleon)
- Golf difficulties, perhaps
- Says what isn't so
- "Slander!"
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - August 27, 2024
- New York Times - August 18, 2024
- LA Times - August 04, 2024
- New York Times - May 03, 2024
- LA Times - April 04, 2024
- New York Times - March 08, 2024
- USA Today - February 05, 2024
- LA Times - December 30, 2023
- New York Times - November 16, 2023
- USA Today - November 09, 2023
- New York Times - October 22, 2023
- USA Today - October 18, 2023
- USA Today - September 13, 2023
- USA Today - September 01, 2023
- New York Times - August 14, 2023
- USA Today - August 08, 2023
- USA Today - June 26, 2023
- LA Times - June 23, 2023
- New York Times - April 29, 2023
- New York Times - April 10, 2023
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