### Clue: Told story about restricting wife's rest (3-4)
### Answer: LIE-DOWN 
 ### Explanation: Definition: rest
 LIED(told story;told an untruth) + ON(about, as in "the talk was about politics") **containing**(restricting) W(abbrev. for "wife").
Defn: … by, well, lying down on a bed, sofa, etc.