Related Clues:

• Many an excuse
• Yarn that is spun
• Toss the bull
• Romance, perhaps
• It may be analyzed before a stroke
• Creative story
• It isn't true
• Be positioned
• Make stuff up
• Piece of gossip
• Tell a story
• 'The check is in the mail,' often
• Scheherazade's lifesaver
• Fairway position
• Bit of slander