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 |
| STORY | 10 % | 5 |
| REST | 10 % | 4 |
| TALE | 8 % | 4 |
| RECLINE | 6 % | 7 |
| FIB | 6 % | 3 |
| FALSEHOOD | 6 % | 9 |
| FALSITY | 2 % | 7 |
| TELLASTORY | 2 % | 10 |
| TELLAFIB | 2 % | 8 |
| TELLTALES | 2 % | 9 |
| 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 |
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 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 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 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 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 FALSEHOOD
More clues leading to the result FALSITY
More clues leading to the result TELLASTORY
More clues leading to the result TELLAFIB
More clues leading to the result TELLTALES
- Fib
- Stretch the truth
- Blabber
- Strings on sails that indicate the wind direction
- Chaucer and Hawthorne ___
- Lie
- Dead giveaways
- Spins yarns
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.