Historical clue formulations

• Pinocchio's are easily exposed — 2026-09-14
• Makeup of a certain web — 2026-07-26
• Falsehoods — 2026-04-21
• "Balderdash!" — 2025-12-15
• Does some stretching? — 2025-09-05
• "None of it's true!" — 2025-05-06
• "Slander!" — 2024-08-27
• Says what isn't so — 2024-08-18
• Golf difficulties, perhaps — 2024-05-03
• "History is a set of ___ agreed upon" (remark attributed to Napoleon) — 2024-03-08
• Shares one's bunk? — 2023-10-22
• "The check is in the mail" and "The dog ate my homework," famously — 2023-08-14
• Don't get caught in them! — 2023-04-29
• Untruths — 2023-04-10
• Reclines — 2023-03-10
• With 71- and 72-Across, commits perjury … or what can be found four times in this puzzle — 2023-01-11
• Claims rated "four Pinocchios," say — 2022-09-26
• "That's so not the case!" — 2022-01-01
• Whoppers — 2020-05-26
• Don't believe them! — 2020-05-05
• Calumnies — 2019-10-24
• Word cried before and after "all" — 2019-02-24
• "Hogwash!" — 2018-03-06
• Some rulings on PolitiFact — 2018-02-19
• "Hope ___ to mortals / And most believe her": Housman — 2017-11-18
• "I deny all that!" — 2016-06-03
• "That's utter slander!" — 2016-01-14
• Tells a tale — 2016-01-12
• Not just deception — 2015-07-30
• Reposes — 2013-11-22
• Fictional accounts — 2013-09-07
• Creates an account? — 2013-08-09
• "Debts and ___ are generally mixed together": Rabelais — 2013-06-14
• Prevarications — 2011-04-18
• "That's all false, and you know it!" — 2011-04-11
• Isn't straight — 2010-12-25
• Propaganda, often — 2010-11-16
• Fabrications — 2010-02-02
• They often come in packs — 2009-12-04
• Big fibs — 2009-11-23
• Whoppers — 2009-11-09
• Isn't straight — 2009-11-08
• White ones are little — 2009-11-01
• Some excuses — 2009-03-01
• Links positions — 2008-10-29
• Storyteller's pack — 2008-02-08
• "Here ___ ..." — 2007-04-22
• Untruths — 2007-03-26
• Stays flat — 2006-10-26
• Tall tales — 2006-02-21