Related Clues:

• Bit of fiction
• Tactful deception
• "The dog ate my homework," e.g.
• Kid's story
• Good fiction?
• BS
• Trivial lie
• Suspect story, maybe
• It's not a very big story
• Not-so-tall tale
• A little white lie
• A white lie
• A harmless fib
• An unimportant departure from of the truth
• Minor untruth, a pale fib