Related Clues:

• Urgent, begging request
• Legal response
• ''Not guilty'' for one
• Aptly, Evan withholds the odd request
• "Help!," for example
• "No contest," for one
• Word that, fittingly, contains all four different letters of APPEAL
• Emotional entreaty
• "Don't go!!" is one
• Request that may see enjoyment cut by half?
• Appeal of the Parisian father’s embraced
• Appeal, petition
• "You've gotta help me!," e.g
• Excuse bound to have lifted pressure
• Topic of some bargaining