Answer: FIB
FIB is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 110 times.
Referring Clues:
- Stretch the truth
- Piece of disinformation
- Taradiddle
- Prevaricate
- Minor invention
- Do a little stretching?
- Bit of baloney
- Little lie
- Not be entirely truthful
- Inconsequential invention
- Little white lie
- Tiny untruth
- Tiny tale
- It may be said while crossing the fingers
- It's more than a stretch
- Trumped-up bit
- Small untruth
- White lie
- Small tale
- Tell tales
- Myth statement?
- Tell an untruth
- Small stretch
- Bend the truth
- Inconsequential lie
- Trivial lie
- Harmless lie
- Trumped-up story
- Embellishment, perhaps
- Small lie
- Much less than a whopper
- Take lying down?
- Not so tall a tale
- Create fiction?
- Small tale?
- There's no truth to it
- Minor misstatement
- Piece of misinformation
- Wee whopper
- Cock-and-bull story
- Story
- Lie a little
- Kid's story
- Suspect story, maybe
- It's not a very big story
- Stretching of the truth
- Tell a tall tale
- BS
- "The dog ate my homework," e.g.
- Whopper junior?
- Not-so-tall tale
- Whopper
- Fiction
- Polygraph detection
- Teensy tale
- Teeny tale
- Mini-whopper
- Wee tale
- Not quite a whopper
- Tell a tale
- Tell a little lie
- Wee lie
- Little untruth
- Truth-stretcher's unit
- "I didn't know I was speeding, officer," e.g.
- Bit of fiction
- Small story
- Minor falsehood
- Deceive
- Tall tale
- Not a very big invention
- Mendacious
- Story, perhaps
- Piece of fudge
- Casual invention
- Small invention
- Little white 64-Down
- No Clue
- Fudge a fact
- Something that might be said with fingers crossed behind the back
- It's not a bad lie
- Statement made while crossing the fingers, maybe
- It's not quite a whopper
- Spare a friend's feelings, maybe
- It's petty but misleading
- Minor untruth
- Innocuous falsehood
- Subtract a year or two from one's age, say
- Bit of fudge?
- "This tastes delicious!," maybe
- Make stuff up
- "Of course it looks good on you!," maybe
- Mistruth
- Simple lie
- Small fabrication
- "You've hardly aged a bit," usually
- Little 19-Across
- "Traffic was terrible," maybe
- Untruth
- Piece of fudge?
- Tell 62-Across
- Do some making up
- Porky
- "I'm busy that night," often
- Minor prevarication
- Cover story?
- Fudge the facts
- Lie
- Bit of dishonesty
- "I had something come up," maybe
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 03, 2025
- New York Times - August 20, 2025
- USA Today - August 06, 2025
- USA Today - August 01, 2025
- USA Today - June 27, 2025
- LA Times - March 11, 2025
- New York Times - February 16, 2025
- New York Times - February 12, 2025
- LA Times - November 17, 2024
- New York Times - November 03, 2024
- New York Times - October 26, 2024
- LA Times - October 10, 2024
- USA Today - August 02, 2024
- New York Times - May 09, 2024
- LA Times - April 15, 2024
- New York Times - March 20, 2024
- LA Times - February 26, 2024
- USA Today - September 05, 2023
- New York Times - February 05, 2023
- LA Times - December 30, 2022
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