PARDON

What Ford gave Nixon

• ___ my glove

• Ahem!

• Come again?

• Excuse me!

• I beg your ___

• Would you repeat that?

• 1974 grant to Nixon

• Absolution

• Absolve

• Amnesty

• Clemency

• Clinton doesn't want one

• Con's hope

• Convict's absolution from the governor

• Excuse

• Forgive

• Inmate's dream

• Inmate's wish

• It's sometimes begged

• Let off

• Negate a conviction

• Penalty remission

• Presidential grant

• Sentence ender

• The pope apologized for the church's sins at the Day of ___ Mass

• The act of excusing a mistake or offense

• A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

• The formal act of liberating someone