| MISSTATEMENT | Lie perhaps to evade gallery staff on time (12) |
| MANTRA | Staff on time to meet artist producing sacred text (6) |
| ROTATED | Art gallery staff sent round and round? (7) |
| GRAYSINN | Not quite white lie perhaps to name lawyers' whereabouts |
| SWINGTHELEAD | Invent specious excuses to evade duties (5,3,4) |
| SONGANDDANCE | Story designed to evade (3 words) |
| IMPALE | Puncture politician caught in a lie, perhaps (6) |
| SHORTSTORY | Leggy type from island produced a little white lie perhaps (5,5) |
| PROVERB | Put lead around dog? Let sleeping dogs lie, perhaps |
| ROYALTIES | What author gets for story - a lie, perhaps (9) |
| ERR | Write "lay" instead of "lie," perhaps |
| IRATELY | Angrily, try a lie, perhaps |
| ROUGH | Trump caught in a bad lie, perhaps |
| TACT | White lie, perhaps |
| TERRAFIRMA | How the land lies perhaps for fairer mart (5,5) |
| DISBELIEF | Fibbed half-heartedly, with lies perhaps generating this response (9) |
| ISLE | How the land lies perhaps |
| TISSUE | What's put out by cheat, ultimately, is collection of lies, perhaps (6) |
| WILES | Cunning Western lies, perhaps (5) |
| LEICESTER | City where Crete lies perhaps (9) |
