Related Clues:

• A desperate appeal to provide cover for legal requests
• Gets on one's knees
• Requests are allowable in distress-signal
• Starts to beseech, entreat, grovel and sponge
• Tries for a treat
• Seeks formally
• Requests change?
• Backs out, with ''off''
• Seeks earnestly
• Call for help about lawful petitions
• Asks for table scraps, like Fido
• Stands on hind legs, perhaps
• Seeks handouts
• More than just asks
• Assumes the point of, as a question