Related Clues:

• Grant an exemption or justify
• Justifying explanation
• Protection from danger
• Let off or make allowances for
• Basis for belief
• Sanity and logic
• Forgive or overlook an offence
• Defence of being elsewhere at time of crime
• Logic and rationality
• Foundation or support, or a main principle
• A defence for bad behaviour
• Cause for sanity
• Give rise to
• Foundation of a theory or process
• Justification for wrongdoing