Related Clues:

• Deceptive utterances
• Claims rated 'four Pinocchios,' say
• Claims that won't pass a fact check
• With 71- and 72-Across, commits perjury ... or what can be found four times in this puzzle
• Speaks dishonestly
• 'Those are deceitful words!'
• In 1906, 'terminological inexactitude', is what Winston Churchill called one of these
• "It's all untrue!"
• 'The check is in the mail' and 'The dog ate my homework,' famously
• Big fat whoppers
• Matilda's weakness remains
• Rough positions
• "The ties were black, the ___ were white" (Taylor Swift lyric)
• Biographies, not very short stories
• Not-truths