Related Clues:

• Empty promises
• Inventions
• Fiction collection
• Lies
• Polygraph hiccups, presumably
• "Never!"
• Stretches the truth
• Avoids honesty
• Prepares to do sit-ups
• Epitaph word
• Tells tales
• Isn't straight with
• Title start of a 2003 Al Franken best seller
• They may come in a pack
• Small inventions