Possible Clues:

• "Little" deception
• Colourful type describes what the swinger is looking for in good fiction
• Supposedly helpful untruth
• "You don't look a day over 29," probably
• Prevarication -- it's the middle-of-the-road thing, not new
• Justifiable deception as we don't stand up about strike
• Ted could not stand being at the bottom of this