Related Clues:

• Big fish story
• Bit of mendacity
• Fabulize
• Something bad to be caught in
• If one is white, it's no big deal
• It's cooked up
• Be abed
• Make preparations
• Practice tact, perhaps
• Bad thing to get caught in
• Bad testimony
• Come up with a cover story
• More than fudge
• Bald-faced statement
• See 52 Across