Related Clues:

• Pin the ___ on the donkey
• Common defense
• Cover, in a way
• Keep tabs on, perhaps
• Defendant's words
• Mr. Ed's fly swatter
• Follow, as a suspect
• "I was home alone, asleep" isn't a very good one
• Court story
• 'I was sleeping at the time,' e.g.
• Literally, "elsewhere"
• What a donkey gets at a children's party
• ''I was out of town at the time,'' e.g.
• Shadower in a whodunit
• 'I was at a movie theater when it happened,' e.g.