Related Clues:

• Outs, in court
• Slips of the pen?
• Courtroom explanations
• One bails out, having excuses for not being there
• Outs at trials
• Some Houdini feats
• Legal defences of being somewhere else at times of crimes
• Exculpatory stories
• Airtight explanations
• Suspect statements?
• Takes off edges of enormous cloaks
• Provides an excuse
• Defendants' defenses
• Collected basil around island produced by those who may be suspect
• One’s associated with a former politician’s excuses