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
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• 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
• "I was stuck in traffic," perhaps
• Word that would be more grammatical in the title "Lay, Lady, Lay"
• Dissemble
• Fake account
• Apt letters for the blanks in _ _ B _ L
• Act excused with crossed fingers
• Bend the truth
• What one should let sleeping dogs do, proverbially
• Be on one's back
• Snow job
• Work of fiction
• Trust eroder