Possible Clues:

• We are prone to accept blow as pardonable offence
• Just a pale fib
• Diplomatic deception
• Priest beginning to escape after festival — not such a wicked thing?
• Forgivable falsehood
• What a good liar tells perhaps is not tactfully true
• Well-meaning falsehood
• Fib? Fair question, according to Spooner?
• "We'll be in touch!," often
• Delicate deception