Related Clues:

• It's not true to tactfully say 15 across might offer it as a wrong answer
• Tinge of perjury?
• What a good liar tells perhaps is not tactfully true
• Minor falsehood
• Harmless untruth
• We are prone to accept blow as pardonable offence
• Priest beginning to escape after festival — not such a wicked thing?
• Pardonable remark to rest on what bride's wearing
• I wheel it out when a tactful comment is required
• Small trouble-saving invention
• "You don't look a day over 29," probably
• Justifiable deception as we don't stand up about strike
• Prevarication -- it's the middle-of-the-road thing, not new
• Supposedly helpful untruth
• Colourful type describes what the swinger is looking for in good fiction