Clues for the word "LIE"
We've had 761 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2408 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on April 16, 2025.
Definition of lie
- n. - See Lye.
- n. - A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
- n. - A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
- n. - Anything which misleads or disappoints.
- v. i. - To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
- adj. - To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
- adj. - To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.
- adj. - To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
- adj. - To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
- adj. - To lodge; to sleep.
- adj. - To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- adj. - To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- n. - The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.
Referring Clues
- Prevaricate
- One of a pack?
- "The check is in the mail," maybe
- Golfer's concern
- Hammarskjold's predecessor
- Deception
- A small one is white
- Rough position?
- You wouldn't want to be caught in one
- "The check is in the mail," perhaps
- Statement from Pinocchio
- Golf position
- Tell a whopper
- Little white thing
- "Fairy tale"
- Golf ball position
- Become prone
- Stay flat
- Trumped-up story
- Go flat?
- One of a pack, perhaps
- Fabrication
- Invention, so to speak
- Tell a tall tale
- Remain
- More than a stretch
- Be flat?
- Tell whoppers
- More than stretch the truth
- "The dog ate my homework" is a classic one
- Sprawl
- Be a bad witness
- Imposture
- Be untrustworthy
- ___ fallow (rust)
- Tell tall tales
- Whopper
- Untruth
- Be less than candid
- Make stuff up
- Mendacity
- Many an excuse
- Misstatement
- Tell it like it isn't
- Bit of slander
- More than an exaggeration
- It may be analyzed before a stroke
- Be positioned
- Truth decay?
- Get prone
- Stretch or stretch out
- Weave a tangled web, say
- Fib
- One might get caught in it
- Fanciful story
- Weigh (on)
- Fairway position
- Rest
- With 20-Across, receive a posthumous honor
- Break an oath, perhaps
- Stretch out
- Position at the Masters
- Commit perjury
- Large amount of fudge?
- Story
- Tell a "story"
- Tell falsehoods
- Practice tact, perhaps
- Cock-and-bull story
- Something bad to be caught in
- Whopper
- Fish story
- Be a make-up artist?
- Bad testimony
- Fail a polygraph
- Tall tale
- Say what isn't so
- "This puzzle is really, really hard," e.g.
- Invention that's not thought highly of
- Made-up story
- Say A is not A, say
- Interrogator's discovery
- Perjure oneself
- One may be caught in it
- Be prostrate
- Good one, so to speak
- Type of detector
- What a polygraph test may reveal
- Stretch the truth
- Test a polygraph, perhaps
- Convey a false impression
- Polygraph's disclosure
- Break a witness stand oath
- Links situation
- Thing to do in waiting?
- Speak with forked tongue
- Intentional inaccuracy
- Cooked-up story
- Use a little bit of make-up?
- Titleist's position
- Polygraph wave, perhaps
- It's cooked up
- "The world's longest parking lot" (abbr.)
- Tell tales
- Polygraph wave, maybe
- Falsehood
- Rest, dog-style
- A white one is small
- Fudge the facts
- Engage in mendacity
- Whopper you can't eat
- Golf ball location
- Prevarication
- Falsification
- Risk a perjury charge
- Polygraph detection
- Baldfaced bit
- Challenge a polygraph
- Course position
- Twist the truth
- Bit of deception
- Tell a fib
- Be a prevaricator
- Palter
- Polygrapher's detection
- First U.N. secretary general
- Tell stories
- "I cannot tell a ___"
- It's not to be believed
- Creative story
- It's not true
- Utter a falsehood
- Be a false witness
- Risk a perjury conviction
- Invention of a sort
- Recline
- Song and dance, perhaps
- Be supine
- Misstate the facts
- What a polygraph might detect
- "Let sleeping dogs ___"
- Be flat
- Be mendacious
- ___ detector (polygraph)
- Polygraphist's detection
- Nassau County hwy.
- Interrogator's red-flag raiser
- Golfer's position
- Way the ball sits
- One may do it through one's teeth
- Alibi, maybe
- Invention
- Fairway situation
- Story, maybe
- It's made up
- Alibi, at times
- Be tactful, perhaps
- Lounge
- Alibi, perhaps
- You might find a bad one in the rough
- There's no truth to it
- One might precede "Not!"
- Courtroom revelation
- Relax
- See 52 Across
- Outright fabrication
- Be untruthful
- Be situated
- Rest, with "by"
- Trumped-up tale
- Say what's not so
- Be false
- Be deceitful
- Go beyond embroidery
- Tell a tale
- Tell fibs
- Pinocchio no-no
- Weave a tangled web
- Use a chaise longue
- Position, in golf
- Golf-ball position
- Position for Palmer
- State what's not so
- Disregard the truth
- Perjury offense
- Varnished truth
- "Would I ___ To You?" (Eurythmics tune)
- Bad thing to be caught in
- Be less than truthful
- Worst kind of campaign promise
- Risk a long nose
- You can do it on your side
- "The check is in the mail," maybe
- Tell a tall one
- Depart from the truth
- Bald-faced thing
- Stretch a point
- Not a good thing to be caught in
- Blip on a polygraph
- "I cannot tell a ___"
- It isn't true
- It's little when white
- Bald-faced bit
- Shepard drama "A ___ of the Mind"
- Bald-faced item
- Practice deception, in a way
- Tell a good one
- Practice deception
- Perjurer's offense
- A little bull
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Toss the bull
- It may be cooked up
- "A ___ of the Mind," Shepard drama
- One in a pack?
- Conceal the truth
- A white one is little
- What you may get caught in
- You may get caught in it
- A little bull?
- Bad thing to get caught in
- Dishonest response
- Cypress Point placement
- Tarradiddle
- Cover up, essentially
- The varnished truth
- Tell a big one
- Big fib
- "The dog ate my homework," maybe
- Pinocchio's downfall
- Falsity
- Baldfaced ___
- ___ through your teeth
- Bit of baloney
- Make up an alibi
- Myth
- Fail to be honest
- Terminological inexactitude, to Churchill
- Be caught by a polygraph
- Golf ball's position
- White ___
- Doctored account
- Taradiddle
- Bit of truth decay?
- Be deceitful, in a way
- Fish tale, essentially
- "The dog ate my homework," for one
- Polygraph's find
- Dispense untruths
- It may be part of a pack
- It's not good to get caught in one
- Amateur golfer's score, perhaps
- Rewrite history, in a way
- Shepard drama "A ___ of the Mind"
- More than fudge
- Polygraph perturber
- Links position
- Get supine
- Rest, with "by"
- Deliberate falsification
- Take advantage of the La-Z-Boy, say
- Not shoot straight
- "You ___!" (newsworthy 2009 outburst)
- Dispense BS
- Don't be straight
- Falsify
- Weir's concern
- Make like a rug
- Canard
- "The check is in the mail," often
- See 102-Down
- Part of a pack?
- Embroider, maybe
- Emulate pinocchio
- Tiger's position
- Fairy tale
- "So you're just gonna sit there and ___ to my face?"
- Links concern
- Varnished truth?
- Rest in a horizontal position
- Be a dirty double-crosser
- Henry Blake's rank in "M*A*S*H*"
- Landlocked Alpine principality
- -
- Fictitious account
- Mendacious story
- Bit of disinformation
- Make it all up
- Fail a polygraph test
- Piece of fiction
- Fail to be truthful
- Use deceit
- Fiction
- Deceit
- Tale
- Suit accessory
- Avoid the truth
- Phony story
- False story
- Impostor's tale
- Pinocchio's undoing
- Repose
- It's not true!
- Trygve of U.N. fame
- Whopper or fib
- Be horizontal
- Utter a fib
- False tale
- Be abed
- "A ___ of the Mind" (Sam Shepard drama)
- Trumped-up story, essentially
- Fib, e.g.
- "I cannot tell a ___" (George Washington's claim)
- Distortion, perhaps
- "He maketh me to ___ down in green ..."
- It's not so
- Whopper, e.g.
- "The dog ate my homework," probably
- See 77-Across
- Blow smoke
- Risk growing a long nose, like Pinocchio
- Disappoint the Blue Fairy, in a way
- Thing in some packs
- It may be caught by a polygraph
- What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain
- Potentially slanderous remark
- Stretch the truth or stretch out
- George Washington no-no
- Crooked line?
- Golf postion
- Tell untruths
- Sprawl, say
- Concern on the course
- Little white item?
- It may influence which club you choose
- Perjurer's pronouncement
- Position
- Creative answer?
- Whopper, so to speak
- With "in" and 60-Down, prepare for an ambush
- Truth decay
- Courtroom taboo
- Pinocchio's peccadillo
- Serve up a whopper?
- Basis for a libel suit
- Deceitful declaration
- Bit of mendacity
- False-hood
- "A ___ cannot live": Martin Luther King Jr.
- Where the golf ball is
- Abandon truth
- Polygraph blip, presumably
- ___ low
- Make something up
- Pate's placement
- Bit of jive
- Dirty, stinkin' item, perhaps
- Say "I do" when you don't?
- Position of an object
- Golf commentator's subject
- Use a bed
- "The check is in the mail," sometimes
- Fairway placement
- Excuse, sometimes
- Make baloney?
- Fibber's tale
- Concern in the rough
- Golfball locale
- Commit perjury, say
- It makes Pinocchio's nose grow
- Rest horizontally
- Pinocchio peccadillo
- Speak badly?
- More than a fib
- Fictionalize?
- Say that this clue is 69-Across, say
- Polygraph abnormalities
- Twist facts
- Certain kind of alibi
- Risk a perjury rap
- Interrogator's red flag raiser
- Bit of flimflam
- ___ in wait
- Utter fibs
- Certain deception
- Item in a pack?
- Not be straight
- Be deceptive
- Sleep (with)
- It can be white or bald-faced
- "Well, I'd love to keep talking ...," probably
- Placement, on the links
- Perjurious statement
- Commit slander
- Factor in club selection
- Polygraph exciter
- Equivocate
- Detector detection
- Tell a story
- "___ Down In Darkness": Styron novel
- ___ detector
- A bad one can raise one's score
- Be dishonest
- Inventive account
- Embroider the truth
- Break a witness-stand oath
- Truth's opposite
- Common slander
- Weir concern
- Moment of dishonesty
- Arnie's position
- Speak creatively?
- Deceptive statement
- "___ detector"
- An untruth
- Polygraph indication, sometimes
- Overstretch
- Be dishonest, in a way
- Fabulize
- Be grounded
- Deliberate misstatement
- Baldfaced thing
- Kind of detector
- Be prone
- Unconvincing excuse, probably
- Exercise tact, perhaps
- Incorrect affirmation
- Made-up tale
- Tall one
- Club selection factor
- Cover for someone, say
- Stretcher, to Huck Finn
- Baron Munchausen whopper
- Lay it on thick
- Bit of duplicity
- Whopper of a tale
- Stretch, of sorts
- Catalyst for Pinocchio
- "Your table will be ready in five minutes," possibly
- Bit of fiction
- One of a rat's pack?
- Little white ___
- Misrepresentation
- Make a polygraph go nuts
- Be on the level?
- PolitiFact finding
- Big fish story
- It's not the truth
- What you'd be embarrassed to be called on
- "I already have other plans," often
- Fabricated statement
- Become horizontal
- Deceive
- Go beyond fudging
- Bunch of baloney
- Load of baloney
- Total fabrication
- Make things up
- Deliver a falsehood
- Fudge a bit
- Perjure
- Bit of fake news
- Be idle
- "Bald-faced" thing
- Telltales
- Rumour
- 27-Across, often
- Deliberate omission, some say
- Get down, in a way
- "___ to me"
- It's little when it's white
- "Little white" statement
- You might get a bad one in the rough
- Utter falsehood
- What a polygraph will disclose
- Load of bunk
- Factor in golf club selection
- Whopper, but not a Big Mac
- Churn out whoppers
- "Alternative fact"
- Fabricate
- Issue fake news, say
- Get in a prone position
- "This puzzle is relatively easy," say
- False utterance
- Twist the facts
- See 62 Down
- Pull a Pinocchio
- Trygve of the UN
- Factor in club choice
- Opposite of the truth
- Didn't tell the truth
- Something you shouldn't tell
- Fail to tell the truth
- Opposite of tell the truth
- False statement
- Not tell the truth
- Tell an untruth
- Tell a falsehood
- Fails to tell the truth
- It isn't the truth
- What Washington couldn't tell
- Impossibility for Washington
- Say it is, when it ain't
- Come up with a cover story
- Feed a line of BS
- Display dishonesty
- Load of crap
- Detector detection, ostensibly
- Polygraph indication
- "Hips Don't ___" (song by Shakira)
- Explosive stuff
- Not be truthful
- Distort data
- It's not a freaking "alternative fact"
- Utilize a bed or sofa
- Verbal whopper
- Be recumbent
- "___ to me. But please don't leave" Sheryl Crow
- DMB "___ in Our Graves"
- Simple Plan "Your Love is a ___"
- "___ to me, but please don't leave" Crow lyric
- Deceptive David Cook song?
- "Hips Don't ___" Shakira
- "This is a ___" The Cure
- Untrue Dream Theater song?
- Ramones "Gonna have it all tonight, that ain't no ___"
- Gwen Stefani "Baby Don't ___"
- Tell porkies
- Within half a mile? I don't believe it!
- Tell stories for money, that is
- Be dishonest with money, that is
- Where the ball's come to rest may be just not true!
- Be located in the heart of Docklands, that is
- Be prone to deceive
- It's misleading on many a point
- Deceptive position for the ball?
- Be deceitful for money, that is
- Possibly incredible place for a ball
- Try out the bed - it's made up
- For the golfer, a position of rest
- Silliest deception?
- Rest among the lilies
- A salient feature of perjury
- Some bullies are dishonest
- Not all bullies are untruthful
- Porky
- Exist without 5 or 16
- "The answer to this clue is an adjective," say
- See 13-Across
- Bit of misinformation
- Fib - be prone
- "Baloney!"
- Avoid honesty
- Falsify facts
- Many a campaign promise
- This answer has five letters
- Position at Pebble Beach
- Be prone to romance
- Resting place for the ball? It's unbelievable
- It's not true I was imprisoned by the French
- Be prone to untruth
- Position on the fairway
- Whopper, for example
- Bit of fake 33-Down
- It's bold-faced at times
- Perjurer's reply
- Fail the polygraph
- Be less than honest
- Create fiction, say
- Baldfaced item
- Respond "like a rug"
- Witness-stand no-no
- Fish tale
- In ___ of (rather than)
- "I didn't know I was speeding, officer," probably
- *Björn's victim in the 1976 Wimbledon final
- Avoid attention, ___ low
- Deceit admitted by client
- Be flat?
- Golf situation
- Be an incredible speaker?
- Rest claimed regularly
- Green situation
- Salient feature of pure fiction
- Whopper claimed when odds are ignored
- "No ___ can live forever": Martin Luther King Jr.
- Position after a drive
- Something that's not true
- Cooked-up account
- Some do it through their teeth
- Keep out of sight, ___ low
- Fudge the truth
- Break a courtroom oath
- Falsehood or rest on bed
- Stand's opposite ... or a bad thing to do on the stand
- Storyteller's tale
- Is it among the sillier attempts at deception?
- Untruthful statement
- Be a fibber
- You wouldn't believe where I've driven my ball to!
- First U.N. chief
- Untrue statement
- Something ratable by number of Pinocchios
- You can take the rest as mere fiction
- "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g.
- "You ___!" ("That's not true!")
- Be verbally dishonest
- Ball location, a bit unbelievable?
- It can be white or boldfaced
- Fabricated story
- Call a spade a diamond
- Witness-stand taboo
- False account
- Truth decay unit?
- The unbelievable part?
- Say incredible things?
- That can't be right
- Tell 50-Down
- Invite a perjury rap
- Whopper (but not the Burger King kind)
- Many an alibi
- Engage in a cover-up, perhaps
- Report "fake news"
- What Huck Finn called a "stretcher"
- Enjoy a dog bed
- A position the golfer may find unbelievable
- Does it merit some belief?
- Deceitful words
- More-than-stretchy statement
- Porky?
- Dispense with honesty
- Fictional statement
- Very tall tale
- Concoction
- What sleeping dogs do
- Make up a cover story, say
- Not only a golfer hates a bad one
- Two Truths and a ___
- Polygraph finding
- Verb commonly confused with "lay"
- Bad thing to do on a resume
- Report fake news, say
- Something fabulous
- Make up a story, maybe
- ___ like a rug
- Produce fiction
- Bit of perjury
- What not to do at a witness stand
- A pork pie, so to speak
- "Somebody told a ___ one day ..." (MLK)
- State falsely
- Back down?
- It doesn't deserve full belief!
- What some people do through their teeth
- Pinocchio's misdeed
- "I didn't cheat," perhaps
- Harmful invention?
- Course concern
- Rest somewhere on course
- Salient feature of perjury
- Shakira's "Hips Don't ___"
- Crooked line?
- Deliberate untruth
- Golfer's consideration
- Detector's finding
- Inveracity
- Tell a horrible fib
- A pound a point? Don't you believe it!
- Don't believe it!
- Dealers do this
- "I'll be there in five minutes," often
- U-turn from the truth
- Polygraph's catch
- "We ___ loudest when we ___ to ourselves": Eric Hoffer
- "Of course I remember you!," often
- Get into a prone position
- Tell the truth? No.
- "Nothing fools you better than the ___ you tell yourself": Teller
- Do the corpse pose
- Depart from the facts
- Unlikely story, likely
- "Not gonna ___"
- Children's story, just fiction
- Take a risk when taking a polygraph test
- Mislead
- Result of not telling the truth
- No-no on the stand
- "No ___!"
- U-turn from "be honest"
- Spread falsehoods
- A white one might be excused
- Create an account?
- Be on the level?
- Say the wrong thing
- Trust buster
- Bear false witness
- Be full of it
- "I promise I won't laugh," often
- "I was stuck in traffic," maybe
- Make a tale taller
- Speak falsely
- Made-up excuse
- What your story about winning Olympic gold is
- Tell tales, maybe
- Fail to be straight
- Speak like a rug?
- Give a ridiculous alibi
- As a fib, it's among the silliest
- Use a bit of makeup?
- Story impossible to prove
- "Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week," e.g.
- Tricky thing to get caught in
- "Thanks, it's just what I've always wanted," often
- Many people do this about their height
- Political fact-checker's verdict, maybe
- Golf variable
- "Hips Don't ___": Shakira hit
- State fiction as fact
- 17-Across an untruth
- Deceptive position for the ball?
- Take the rest as pure fiction
- That's not true
- But evidently it does merit some belief
- Untrue claim
- "It's not you, it's me," maybe
- What "lay" is not ...
- Blip on a polygraph, maybe
- Bluff, say
- What hips don't do, per a Shakira hit
- One might be bald-faced
- Any made-up excuse
- "We ___ the loudest when we ___ to ourselves": Eric Hoffer
- Tell the truth? Not quite.
- Word often confused with "lay"
- Two truths and a ___: icebreaker game
- Work of fiction?
- Intentional falsehood
- Deceive with words
- What many people do on their dating profiles
- Many do this on the beach
- Deceptive position for the ball to be in?
- Silliest deception?
- Risky thing to do in an affidavit
- "On my way!" text, maybe
- Produce whoppers
- "Of course, I remember you!," perhaps
- Be truthful? Unfortunately, no
- Be a make-up artist?
- Where a golf ball sits
- Get in a corpse pose
- Deceitful statement
- "That's a ___!"
- Show signs of mythomania
- "I can't ___ ..."
- What crossed fingers behind one's back might indicate
- "Adjust" the facts
- "I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty ___" (Shakira quote)
- Story that's not true
- Bluff, e.g.
- "It's not you, it's me," often
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- Penny Dell Daily - March 28, 2025
- Family Time - March 23, 2025
- Daily American - March 22, 2025
- Daily American - March 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2025
- Family Time - March 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 13, 2025
- USA Today - March 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 07, 2025
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- Evening Standard Quick - February 28, 2025
- USA Today - February 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 26, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 24, 2025
- Family Time - February 24, 2025
- USA Today - February 24, 2025
- New York Times - February 19, 2025
- Daily American - February 16, 2025
- New York Times - February 16, 2025
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