Related Clues:

• In reserve; pardon
• Make apologies for
• Discharge sailor found with crack
• Use spades to trim off excess
• Got over the bar
• Old copper's given directions out
• Dealt leniently with daughter after going begging
• Jumped over and became free
• Declare (someone) not guilty
• Release without computer's initial application
• Middle tyre, perhaps
• Seek to justify (a fault)
• Declare free of guilt
• Upstanding community members
• Thin, elegantly simple