Related Clues:

• Committed perjury
• Dissembled
• Made stuff up
• Told a story
• Told a fish story
• 'The Erl-King,' for one
• Violated the Ninth Commandment
• Uttered untruths
• Emulated Ananias
• Invented something
• Piled on the applesauce
• Dissembled and then some
• Spoke with forked tongue
• Told fibs
• Bent the truth