Falsehood - Crossword Clue, Answer and Explanation

'falsehood' is the definition.
(fib is a kind of falsehood)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for fib that I've seen before include "Small lie" , "Petty falsehood" , "A harmless white lie" , "Story" , "Little white lie" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times, The Mirror, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Times, The Daily Mail, the LA Times, the King Feature Syndicate, The Star Tribune, The Sun, the Evening Standard, The Telegraph, the USA Today, The Independent and the Penny Press.

'falsehood' is the definition.
(I know that falsehood can be written as untruth)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for untruth that I've seen before include "story" , "Fib" , "A genuinely deniable" , "Falsehood or lie" , "product of Orwell's ministry?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror, The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun and The Independent.

'falsehood' is the definition.
(I know that fiction is a type of falsehood)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for fiction that I've seen before include "Piece of writing from the imagination" , "It isn''t true" , "Fabricated story" , "Non-factual story" , "Literary form" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror, The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun and The Independent.

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