I was nowhere near Oakland, e.g.
Else clues• ___ 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 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.