Related Clues:

• Likely story?
• Criminal excuse
• Defendant's dodge
• Protective cover
• Exculpatory story
• Cover story
• Sake
• Literally, 'elsewhere'
• Suspect's out
• It may be airtight
• Defense of a sort
• Grafton's A
• Rampart
• "I was at the movies," e.g.
• Protect