Related Clues:

• It's cooked up
• Be abed
• Make preparations
• Practice tact, perhaps
• Not be entirely truthful
• Not so tall a tale
• Green situation
• Not quite a whopper
• Bad thing to get caught in
• Inconsequential invention
• Bad testimony
• Come up with a cover story
• More than fudge
• White lie
• Bald-faced statement