Excuse for not doing something - Crossword Clue

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5 letter answer(s) to excuse for not doing something

ALIBI
  1. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
  2. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"
  3. exonerate by means of an alibi

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Excuse for not doing something'

"I ran out of gas," e.g.
"I was at a movie theater
"I was out of town at the
A politician has one form of defence
A politician with one excuse for failure
A politician, one giving evidence in court
A vital urge to abandon party, making excuse
Accused’s defence fails if bail oddly withheld
Accused's excuse
Accused's need
Backtracking, caught in fib, I laugh and say, "I was in Pizza Express in Woking at the time”
Bail arranged by one for the defence
Bimbo regularly interrupts boxer's defence
Boxer once swinging both ways in defence
Boxer with brio occasionally providing cover story
Boxer, British one, finding reason not to charge?
Boxer, one possessing second-rate defence
Breaking bail - one's excuse?
Calf and tibia discovered to be explanation of movements
Claim one was elsewhere
Clever remark very good spread round about
Corroborator, maybe
Court story
Cover
Cover story
Cover story?
Cover, so to speak
Crosophile en ville near Toulouse? Not with this perhaps
Defence always leaky, it's Brighton's infirmity, first of all
Defence from fighter boxing in the same place
Defence of being elsewhere
Defence of Italy twice cut ball out
Defence of the absent
Defence starts to argue legal issue, blocking injunction
Defendant's excuse
Defendant's offering
Defendant's testimony, ma
Defense aid
Entering French town, I claim to have been elsewhere
Evidence found in Somali bin
Evidence of being elsewhere
Evidence that the accused could not have been guilty
Evidential statement, mostly set down, regarding certain sexual behaviour
Excuse
Excuse a former politician invented originally
Excuse any ludicrous in-fighting by incompetent leaders
Excuse boxer breeder intended to begin with
Excuse deviation from script, but not second one
Excuse in court excellent defending one bishop on line
Excuse individual after jumping bail
Excuse me leaving meal before I begin its starters
Excuse of boxer swinging this way and that?
Excuse one in vestment beside the writer
Excuse one replacing a graduate in panto role
Heavyweight boxer’s first international defence
I bail out?
Initially attacking, later is better in defence
It may be airtight
It might be airtight
It puts one in the clear
It's good when airtight
Jumping bail Hippogryph reveals proof of being elsewhere at the time
Legal defence proving innocence
Liberal involved in first-class defence
Most of all, I attempt to overlook daughter's justification
Old-style politician involved in excellent excuse
Out
Out for a trial
Out of sorts?
Plea from Somali bishop
Politician taken in by excellent excuse
Proof of location in Bali bivouac
Proof one didn’t commit a crime
Saving yarn?
Some criminal I bill for this defence
Story of a large wading bird with no tail
Suspect eliminator
Suspect's excuse
Suspect's need
Suspect's story
The greatest Belgium international defence
Way out
What a murder suspect nee
What an accused perpetrat

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