Related Clues:

• Seek mercy
• Need to be Greek leader to ask for more money
• Solicit alms
• Give one's case
• Hold out one's paw, say
• An apple a day keeps this, I pray
• Give as an excuse
• Seek pocket change, say
• Seek mercy, say
• Solicit charity
• Respond to a charge
• Ask for change
• Profess one's innocence, perhaps
• Beg and then some
• Say ''not guilty,'' perhaps