Related Clues:

• A politician with one excuse for failure
• Journal I binned contains excuse for failure
• Defence from boxer swinging both ways?
• Legal defence, some fib I later retracted
• Island leader demoted: island makes excuse
• Setting bail, one defence that might be offered
• Proof one didn't commit a crime
• Evidence proving absence from a crime scene
• Only half aligns bins using this by way of a defence
• Story in court
• "They were with me all day," e.g
• Story backed up by a witness, hopefully
• Detective story?
• Story that may prove innocence