ALIBI

• ___ Ike

• ___ Ike (excuse maker)

• ___ Ike (excuse-making Ring Lardner character)

• ___ Ike (Ring Lardner story)

• A defense at court

• A suspect may have one down pat

• A suspect's might be suspect

• A witness may verify it

• A witness may verify one

• Acceptable excuse

• Accusation beater

• Accused perp's excuse

• Accused person's defense of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed

• Accused's defense

• Accused's excuse

• Accused's need

• Accused's story

• Accused's words

• Acquittal ploy

• Airtight story

• Airtight story, maybe

• Alleged perp's defense

• Alleged perp's need

• Alleged perp's story

• Arrestee's excuse

• Best defense, in some cases

• Bit of exculpatory evidence

• Centerpiece of the defense

• Certain testimony

• Clearing statement

• Common defense

• Convenient story

• Corroborator, maybe

• Court defense

• Court excuse

• Court explanation

• Court plea

• Court story

• Courtroom excuse

• Courtroom offering

• Courtroom word

• Cover

• Cover story

• Cover story I bail out (5)

• Cover story: Great fighter, one who swings both ways? (5)

• Cover, so to speak

• Crime story?

• Criminal excuse

• Criminal explanation

• Defendant's best hope

• Defendant's claim

• Defendant's defense

• Defendant's dodge

• Defendant's excuse

• Defendant's explanation

• Defendant's need

• Defendant's out

• Defendant's ploy

• Defendant's story

• Defendant's story, often

• Defendant's testimony, maybe

• Defendant's words

• Defense aid

• Defense establishment?

• Defense mechanism

• Defense of a sort

• Defense play

• Defense witness, perhaps

• Defense, perhaps

• Defense, sometimes

• Defense's focal point

• Defensive line?

• Defensive story

• Defensive tale

• DNA results, maybe

• Easy out?

• Element of a murder mystery

• Elsewhere, in Latin

• Evidence for the defense

• Evidence of innocence

• Exculpatory evidence

• Exculpatory story

• Excuse

• Excuse for boxer beginning to box on island (5)

• Excuse in a whodunit

• Excuse in court

• Excuse of a sort

• Excuse to avoid blame

• Excuse to the cops

• Excuse to the judge

• Excuse, often

• Excuse, on the stand

• Famous fighter has one second-rate excuse (5)

• Formal excuse

• Grafton

• Grafton's A

• Grafton's A Is for ___

• Grafton's A is for it

• Her ___

• Her ___ (1988 Selleck / Porizkova movie)

• Her ___ (Selleck film)

• Her ___ (Tom Selleck film)

• Her ___, 1989 Selleck film

• Hood's excuse

• I had to visit my sick aunt, e.g.

• I ran out of gas, e.g.

• I was asleep, for one

• I was at a movie theater when it happened, e.g.

• I was at a movie when it happened, e.g.

• I was at a movie when the crime occurred, e.g.

• I was at home all night, e.g.

• I was at home in bed, for example

• I was at home sleeping at the time, e.g.

• I was at home washing my dog, e.g.

• I was at my friend's all night, e.g.

• I was at my girlfriend's, e.g.

• I was at the movies at the time, e.g.

• I was at the movies, e.g.

• I was at the movies, maybe

• I was at work all day, e.g.

• I was away on business, e.g.

• I was elsewhere excuse

• I was home alone all night, e.g.

• I was home alone, asleep isn't a very good one

• I was nowhere near Oakland, e.g.

• I was out of town at the time of the murder, e.g.

• I was out of town at the time, e.g.

• I was out of town, for one

• I was sleeping at the time, e.g.

• I was stuck in traffic at the time, e.g.

• I was volunteering at the orphanage at the time of the murder, e.g.

• I was walking the dog at the time, e.g.

• I was with Mom, e.g.

• I wasn't there, e.g.

• Ike's excuse

• Ike's first name?

• Ike's story?

• Innocence evidence

• Interrogation room account

• Ironclad ___

• Ironclad defense, usually

• It could be a strong defense

• It could clear you

• It eliminates suspects

• It may be airtight

• It may be corroborated

• It may be ironclad

• It may be proved in court

• It may be watertight

• It may check out on Law & Order

• It may help one get away with murder

• It might be airtight

• It might let a person off

• It should be airtight

• It'll fly if it's ironclad

• It's good when airtight

• Lardner's ___ Ike

• Latecomer's excuse

• Latin for elsewhere

• Legal defense

• Legal excuse

• Likely story?

• Literally, at another place

• Literally, elsewhere

• Literally, in another place

• Make excuses

• Make excuses for

• My hard drive crashed, e.g.

• Mystery Excuse

• Mystery story?

• Not always a likely story

• Not guilty plea excuse

• One might be airtight

• One might stand up in court

• One's out

• Out

• Out for a trial

• Out for the accused

• Out in court

• Out lines?

• Out of sorts

• Out on the stand

• Out, at the police station

• Perfect murder component

• Perp-to-cop story

• Perp's cover

• Perp's excuse

• Perp's out

• Perp's pretext

• Perp's story

• Possible proof of innocence

• Pretext, possibly

• Proof of innocence

• Proof of innocence, maybe

• Proof of innocence, perhaps

• Reason for acquittal

• Reason you couldn't have committed the crime

• Ring Lardner's ___ Ike

• Saving yarn?

• Seemingly good excuse

• Slip cover?

• Sob story

• Something to fall back on?

• Stand out?

• Story of a sort

• Story on the stand

• Story to verify

• Story, sometimes

• Suspect eliminator

• Suspect story?

• Suspect's defense

• Suspect's excuse

• Suspect's explanation

• Suspect's I was home all night, e.g.

• Suspect's need

• Suspect's out

• Suspect's trump card

• The dog ate my homework

• The dog ate my homework, e.g.

• Trial excuse

• Trial ploy

• Trial story

• Vouch for, perhaps

• Voucher?

• Well-known Ike

• What a murder suspect needs

• What an accused perpetrator needs

• Where an innocent man was

• Where you were at crime time

• Whereabouts, often

• Whodunit plot element

• Whodunit plot line

• Word from the Latin for elsewhere

• Word in many Law & Order scripts

• Wrongdoer's excuse

• (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question

• A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

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