Excuse - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 18/03/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Excuse.

5 letter answer(s) to excuse

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

7 letter answer(s) to excuse

CONDONE
  1. excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
PRETEXT
  1. an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
  2. something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

10 letter answer(s) to excuse

GOODREASON

3 letter answer(s) to excuse

OUT
  1. being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"
  2. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"
  3. away from home; "they went out last night"
  4. be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"
  5. directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"
  6. excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"
  7. from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"
  8. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
  9. moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden; "the cat came out from under the bed";
  10. no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"
  11. not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a cl

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Excuse'

"Git!"
"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
Absent
Accused’s defence fails if bail oddly withheld
Accused's excuse
Accused's need
Available for purchase
Available? Not here
Away
Away from home
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
Blooming British abandoning fight
Books university dons borrowed from the library
Books university dons published
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
Call at first
Can seem a thousand short
Claim one was elsewhere
Clever remark very good spread round about
Corroborator, maybe
Court story
Cover
Cover coming before book?
Cover story
Cover story?
Cover, so to speak
Crosophile en ville near Toulouse? Not with this perhaps
Dated
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
Dismissed in contest, though not bowled
Down for the count
Elsewhere - unfashionable
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 a former politician invented originally
Excuse any ludicrous in-fighting by incompetent leaders
Excuse boxer breeder intended to begin with
Excuse criminal getting cheated
Excuse criminal no more
Excuse deviation from script, but not second one
Excuse expert fabricated ahead of time
Excuse for acting before script is here?
Excuse for not doing something
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
Excuse pressure concerning words used for speech
Extinguished
Extinguished; abroad
Forgive
Forgive (bad behaviour)
Forgive scam performed
Forgive swindle perpetrated
Former girlfriend with fairly short clothing makes excuse
Front page has concerning message
Fully anesthetized
Having lunch, say
Heading back to the pavilion?
Heavily sedated
Heavyweight boxer’s first international defence
Hit a low point
In print
In the open
Inaccurate
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
Justification
Kayoed
Legal defence proving innocence
Liberal involved in first-class defence
Like Ellen, now
Like one who fans
Like school, sometimes
Loophole
Means of escape
Most of all, I attempt to overlook daughter's justification
No longer an option
No longer chic
No longer fashionable
No longer hot
No longer imprisoned
No longer in prison
Nod once
Not allowed in the shops
Not at home
Not at home in Tynemouth
Not home
Not in
Not safe
Not worth considering boxing fight shunned by beginner
Now published
Old hat
Old-fashioned books about university
Old-style politician involved in excellent excuse
On strike, bowled perhaps?
On strike, say
On strike, what batsman doesn't want to be
Opposite of safe
Other Ulyssean traits initially seen in Bloom
Out
Out for a trial
Out of sorts?
Over's partner
Overlook scam, finished
Overlook trick performed
Overlook, as something th
Overlook, forgive
Pardon prisoner executed
Pass
Plea from Somali bishop
Politician taken in by excellent excuse
Porter dropping stone is dismissed
Powerful bird biting head off large reptile
Principals in overambitious universities thus dismissed
Prisoner put on parole ultimately gets pardon
Proof of location in Bali bivouac
Publicly gay
Published
Published books about defrocked nun
Published books about United
Result of a sacrifice
Revealed
Saving yarn?
See 7
So last year
Some criminal I bill for this defence
Some fun in the sun
Specious excuse from platoon leader regarding message
Story of a large wading bird with no tail
Striking unconscious
Suspect eliminator
Suspect's excuse
Suspect's need
Suspect's story
Tag cry
The greatest Belgium international defence
Ump's call
Umpire's call
Umpire's cry
Umpire's decision?
Unconscious
Unconscious in fight, getting head struck
Unfashionable openers in our university team
Unsafe?
Way out
What a murder suspect nee
What an accused perpetrat
Writing on page about excuse
Yogurt occasionally available
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