Related Clues:

• Courtroom excuse
• Defense mechanism?
• Suspect's defense
• Defence
• Legal get-out
• Arrestee's excuse
• ''___ Ike''
• Extra's role in 'CSI'
• Whodunit plot line
• Common defense
• Cover, in a way
• Defendant's words
• Exterminator's option
• "I was home alone, asleep" isn't a very good one
• Court story