Answer: LYING
LYING is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 53 times.
Referring Clues:
- Fibbing
 - Telling tales
 - Possible cause of a spanking
 - Reason for a spanking, maybe
 - Perjury
 - Pinocchio's problem
 - Telling fibs
 - Telling it like it isn't
 - Two-faced
 - Dishonest
 - Making things up
 - Being deceitful
 - Flunking a polygraph
 - Failing the polygraph
 - Telling stories
 - Breaking a commandment
 - Being situated
 - Fooling the polygraph
 - Perjurer's predilection
 - Bearing false witness
 - Covering up the truth
 - Deception
 - Cause of nasal growth?
 - Untruthful
 - Ananias' forte
 - "Advertising is legalized ___": Wells
 - Mendacity
 - Recumbent
 - Full of baloney
 - Deceitful
 - Prone
 - Inventing things
 - More than misleading
 - Not upfront
 - Telling tall tales
 - Telling whoppers
 - Fabricating
 - What causes the circled letters to grow?
 - Deceiving
 - In a horizontal position
 - In a prone position
 - Making up stories
 - Not being straight
 - Not true
 - Not upstanding, in either sense of the word
 - Horizontal
 - Spinning a yarn
 - "You aren't ___!"
 - Full of beans
 - Prevaricating
 - Why Pinocchio's nose grows
 - Not straight
 - Bluffing
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - May 01, 2025
 - New York Times - April 11, 2025
 - New York Times - February 24, 2025
 - New York Times - August 13, 2024
 - New York Times - April 30, 2024
 - New York Times - May 07, 2023
 - LA Times - April 07, 2023
 - New York Times - July 06, 2021
 - USA Today - June 03, 2021
 - LA Times - May 10, 2021
 - New York Times - May 08, 2021
 - New York Times - January 18, 2021
 - USA Today - August 18, 2020
 - LA Times - April 03, 2020
 - Netword - December 02, 2019
 - Netword - August 09, 2019
 - New York Times - October 15, 2018
 - Netword - March 25, 2018
 - Universal - May 03, 2017
 - New York Times - April 04, 2017
 
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