Related Clues:

• Defence
• Legal get-out
• Arrestee's excuse
• ''___ Ike''
• Whodunit plot line
• Common defense
• Cover, in a way
• Defendant's words
• "I was home alone, asleep" isn't a very good one
• Court story
• 'I was sleeping at the time,' e.g.
• Literally, "elsewhere"
• ''I was out of town at the time,'' e.g.
• 'I was at a movie theater when it happened,' e.g.
• One's out