The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word UNTRUTH , but the solution may also be FALSEHOOD which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Lie crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| UNTRUTH | 14 % | 7 |
| REPOSE | 12 % | 6 |
| REST | 10 % | 4 |
| STORY | 10 % | 5 |
| TALE | 8 % | 4 |
| FALSEHOOD | 6 % | 9 |
| RECLINE | 6 % | 7 |
| FIB | 6 % | 3 |
| MENDACITY | 2 % | 9 |
| TELLFIBS | 2 % | 8 |
| DECEIT | 2 % | 6 |
| FLAM | 2 % | 4 |
| GOLFPREDICAMENT | 2 % | 15 |
| CANARD | 2 % | 6 |
| TALLTALE | 2 % | 8 |
| FISHSTORY | 2 % | 9 |
| FABLE | 2 % | 5 |
| FALSITY | 2 % | 7 |
| TELLASTORY | 2 % | 10 |
| TELLAFIB | 2 % | 8 |
| TELLTALES | 2 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lie
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lie down
- lie in
- dwell
- rest
- prevarication
- belong
- consist
- recline
- hide
- fall
- reside
- decoy
Crossword Answer definitions
UNTRUTH noun- A lie or falsehood.
- The condition of being false; truthlessness.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result UNTRUTH
More clues leading to the result REPOSE
More clues leading to the result REST
- Caesura
- Take five
- Break
- Kick back
- Moment of silence
- Observe the Sabbath?
- Pause
- Peace of mind
- Take a break
- Take a breather
More clues leading to the result STORY
- Alibi
- Whodunit, e.g.
- Fifth or sixth, perhaps
- Yarn
- Bedtime request
- Drudge Report link
- Globe piece
- Pre-bedtime ritual
- Newspaper piece
- Edifice level
More clues leading to the result TALE
- Fabrication
- It may be tall
- Myth
- Account
- Bunch of baloney
- Chaucer specialty
- Fictional story
- Fireside yam
- Fish story
- "A ___ of Two Cities"
More clues leading to the result FALSEHOOD
More clues leading to the result RECLINE
- Sit back
- Use an easy chair
- Stretch out
- Lie
- Lean back
- Lie down
- Go back
- Lean back in a chair
- Use a La-Z-Boy
- Lie down.
More clues leading to the result FIB
- Stretch the truth a bit
- Untruth
- Tiny tale
- Don't believe it
- Minor invention
- Slight exaggeration
- Stretch out?
- Tell some tales
- Teeny tale
- Wee whopper
More clues leading to the result MENDACITY
More clues leading to the result TELLFIBS
More clues leading to the result DECEIT
- Con man's game
- Chicanery
- Trickery
- Double dealing
- Duplicity
- Scheming behavior
- Skullduggery
- Artifice
- Double-dealing
- Con man's forte
More clues leading to the result FLAM
- Drum fill
- Drumming rudiment
- "The Flim ___ Man" (1967 film)
- "The Flim ___ Man"
- Deception
- Quick da-dum, on drum
- Drumbeat
- Trick
- Hoax
- Two-stroke drumbeat
More clues leading to the result GOLFPREDICAMENT
More clues leading to the result CANARD
- Dinner duck
- Falsehood
- Baseless rumor
- False report
- Scandalous story
- Misleading story
- Malicious fabrication
- Malicious rumor
- Nasty rumor
- False rumor
More clues leading to the result TALLTALE
- "Gulliver's Travels," for example
- Big whopper
- It's hard to believe
- Whopper
- Fish story
- Fanciful yarn
- Unlikely story
- Improbable story
- Hard-to-believe story
- Paul Bunyan story.
More clues leading to the result FISHSTORY
- Biography of a Pisces?
- Exaggerated account
- Overdrawn account?
- LIE
- Tall tale
- Implausible tale
- Exaggerated yarn
- Exaggerated tale
- Incredible yarn.
- Tall tale.
More clues leading to the result FABLE
- Story starring animals, at times
- Story with talking animals
- Aesop tale
- Moralistic tale
- Aesopian narrative
- "The Miser and His Gold," e.g.
- "The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g.
- "Animal Farm" form
- One of Aesop's stories
- Moral story