Answer: LIED
LIED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 138 times.
Referring Clues:
- Manufactured baloney?
 - Tested a polygraph
 - Played fast and loose with the facts
 - Wasn't straight
 - Produced fiction
 - Told a whopper
 - Stretched the truth, so to speak
 - Perjured oneself
 - Made yarns
 - Falsified
 - Schubert composition
 - Emulated Ananias
 - "So I ___"
 - Wasn't honest
 - Emulated Pinocchio
 - Served up a whopper
 - "So I ___!"
 - Made stuff up
 - "The Erl-King," for one
 - Dissembled and then some
 - Wasn't true
 - Invented things
 - Came up with an invention
 - Schubert piece
 - Schubert song
 - Committed perjury
 - Told stories
 - Spun yarns
 - More than stretched the truth
 - Indulged in fiction
 - Told a fib
 - Told a fabrication
 - Stretched the truth
 - Berlin song
 - Fudged the facts
 - Was inventive, and then some
 - Part of a Schubert song cycle
 - Participated in a put-on, perhaps
 - Prevaricated
 - Didn't tell the truth
 - Spread canards
 - Invented things?
 - Told tall tales
 - Told an untruth
 - Violated the Ninth Commandment
 - Piled on the applesauce
 - Bent the truth
 - Told whoppers
 - Wasn't candid
 - Wasn't forthright
 - Was untruthful
 - Told fibs
 - Wasn't truthful
 - Uttered untruths
 - Violated a commandment
 - Deutschland song
 - Made one's nose grow
 - Invited a perjury charge
 - Purposely misled
 - Uttered a taradiddle
 - Was more than inventive
 - Told a tale
 - Told a story
 - Fabricated
 - Broke a Commandment
 - Made up a story
 - Made one's own whopper?
 - Was more than misleading
 - Covered for a crony, perhaps
 - Spoke with forked tongue
 - Told it like it wasn't
 - Invented facts
 - Told tales
 - Prompted nasal protraction?
 - Did some yarn-spinning
 - Art song
 - Trumped up tales
 - Failed to be truthful
 - Was deceptive, in a way
 - Was deceptive, in a way
 - Wasn't sincere
 - Wasn't frank
 - Told a big one
 - Tested the polygraph
 - Told a big fib
 - Fibbed
 - Practiced mendacity
 - Wasn't straight up
 - Misspoke deliberately
 - Wasn't up-front
 - Doctored the facts
 - Specialized in fiction, say
 - Produced fiction?
 - Didn't just mislead someone
 - Was a makeup artist?
 - Just made stuff up
 - Twisted the truth
 - Created fiction?
 - Told a fish story
 - Produced stories
 - More than mislead
 - Burned one's britches, say
 - Burned one's britches
 - Was false
 - Wasn't veracious
 - Didn't tell it like it is
 - Bore false witness
 - Spoke falsely
 - Told falsehoods
 - Fudged facts
 - Told a falsehood
 - Was deceitful
 - Storyteller's admission
 - Pseudologized
 - Told untruths
 - Presented an invention?
 - Told a fantastic story, perhaps
 - Served whoppers?
 - Risked a perjury rap
 - Took part in a cover-up
 - Committed perjury, say
 - Set off a polygraph
 - Didn't come clean
 - Made it up
 - Schumann product
 - Made up things
 - Committed perjury, e.g.
 - Told a 29-Across
 - Said, "The dog ate my homework," probably
 - Imitated Pinocchio
 - Spoke with a forked tongue
 - Told a good one
 - Enhanced the truth
 - Told a tall tale
 - Came up with an invention?
 - "Das ___ der Deutschen" (Germany's national anthem)
 - Created an account?
 - Was dishonest
 
Last Seen In:
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 - USA Today - January 09, 2024
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 - New York Times - November 15, 2023
 - New York Times - May 22, 2023
 - New York Times - April 30, 2023
 - USA Today - April 11, 2023
 - LA Times - August 05, 2022
 
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