Related Clues:

• You were somewhere else? What kind of excuse is that!
• Party in jail, no end in sight — what might have helped?
• Evidence for being not at crime scene
• A serious offence
• Misdeed of civil engineer cladding border
• This is what should go in here
• One of twenty-four in this puzzle
• Proof one was elsewhere when crime was committed
• A sort of desire to abandon party -- excuse given
• Battery, e.g
• Whodunit's why
• Colonel Mustard's milieu
• "I was out of town at the time," e.g
• "I was home all night," for one
• 'I couldn't have done it because ...,' e.g