Related Clues:

• Just a pale fib
• Ted could not stand being at the bottom of this
• Wee lie
• Unimportant misdemeanour? We'll protect one who is successful priest
• Something untrue, but forgivable
• Little untruth
• Stuart leaves fruit bats to tell lie
• Benign fiction
• 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
• 'I didn't know I was speeding, officer,' e.g
• Small story
• Minor falsehood
• Fudging of fact