ALIBI

ALIBI


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Word: alibi
Phonetic: /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/
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The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed Example: to prove an alibi
To provide an alibi for.
To provide an excuse for.


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Airtight story
Her ___
Her ___ (1988 Selleck / Porizkova movie)
Her ___ (Selleck film)
Her ___ (Tom Selleck film)
I had to visit my sick aunt
I ran out of gas
I was asleep
I was at a movie theater when it happened
I was at a movie when it happened
I was at a movie when the crime occurred
I was at home all night
I was at home in bed
I was at home sleeping at the time
I was at home washing my dog
I was at my friends all night
I was at my girlfriends
I was at the movies at the time
I was at the movies
I was at work all day
I was away on business
I was elsewhere excuse
I was home alone all night
I was home alone
I was nowhere near Oakland
I was out of town at the time of the murder
I was out of town at the time
I was out of town
I was sleeping at the time
I was stuck in traffic at the time
I was volunteering at the orphanage at the time of the murder
I was with Mom
I wasnt there
My hard drive crashed
Perfect murder component
The dog ate my homework
The dog ate my homework?
___ Ike
___ Ike (Ring Lardner story)
A suspect may have one down pat
A suspects might be suspect
A witness may verify it
A witness may verify one
Acceptable excuse
Accusation beater
Accused perps excuse
Accused persons defense of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed
Accuseds defense
Accuseds excuse
Accuseds need
Accuseds story
Accuseds words
Acquittal ploy
Alleged perps defense
Alleged perps need
Alleged perps story
Best defense
Bit of exculpatory evidence
Certain testimony
Clearing statement
Common defense
Convenient story
Corroborator
Court defense
Court excuse
Court explanation
Court plea
Court story
Courtroom excuse
Courtroom offering
Cover
Cover story
Cover story I bail out (5)
Cover story: Great fighter
Cover story?
Crime story?
Criminal excuse
Criminal explanation
DNA results
Defendants claim
Defendants defense
Defendants dodge
Defendants excuse
Defendants explanation
Defendants need
Defendants out
Defendants ploy
Defendants story
Defendants testimony
Defense aid
Defense establishment?
Defense mechanism
Defense play
Defense ploy
Defense witness
Defense
Defensive line?
Defensive story
Defensive tale
Easy out?
Element of a murder mystery
Elsewhere
Evidence for the defense
Evidence of innocence
Exculpatory story
Excuse
Excuse for boxer beginning to box on island (5)
Excuse in a whodunit
Excuse in court
Excuse of a sort
Excuse to avoid blame
Excuse to the cops
Excuse to the judge
Famous fighter has one second-rate excuse (5)
Formal excuse
Graftons A
Graftons A is for it
Graftons A Is for ___
Graftons A
Ikes first name?
Ikes story?
Innocence evidence
Interrogation room account
Ironclad ___
It could be a strong defense
It could clear you
It eliminates suspects
It may be airtight
It may be corroborated
It may be ironclad
It may be watertight
It may check out on Law & Order
It may help one get away with murder
It might be airtight
It might let a person off
It should be airtight
Itll fly if its ironclad
Its good when airtight
Lardners ___ Ike
Latecomers excuse
Latin for elsewhere
Legal defense
Legal excuse
Likely story?
Literally
Make excuses
Make excuses for
Mystery Excuse
Mystery excuse?
Mystery story?
Not always a likely story
One might stand up in court
Out
Out for a trial
Out for the accused
Out in court
Out of sorts
Out of sorts?
Out on the stand
Perps cover
Perps excuse
Perps out
Perps pretext
Perps story
Perp-to-cop story
Possible proof of innocence
Pretext
Proof of innocence
Reason you couldnt have committed the crime
Ring Lardners ___ Ike
Saving yarn?
Seemingly good excuse
Slip cover?
Something to fall back on?
Stand out?
Story of a sort
Story on the stand
Story to verify
Story
Suspect eliminator
Suspect story?
Suspects I was home all night
Suspects out
Suspects defense
Suspects excuse
Suspects explanation
Suspects need
Suspects story
Suspects trump card
Trial excuse
Trial story
Vouch for
Way out
Way out?
Well-known Ike
What a murder suspect needs
What an accused perpetrator needs
Where an innocent man was
Where you were at crime time
Word from the Latin for elsewhere
Word in many Law & Order scripts
Wrongdoers excuse
___ Ike (excuse maker)
___ Ike (excuse-making Ring Lardner character)
Elsewhere: Latin.
Plausible excuse.
Legal plea
Excuse of being elsewhere.
A well-known Ike.
Good excuse
In another place: Lat.
Elsewhere: Lat.
See 53 Across.
Et ___ (and elsewhere): Lat.
A popular defense in court.
Any excuse: Colloq.
Excuse: Colloq.
Form of legal defense.
Suspect's necessity.
Et ___ (and elsewhere).
Excuse, informally.
I wasn't there, for example.
Courtroom story
Story of a kind.
I wasn't there, e.g.
Culprit's standby
Suspect's defense
I wasn't there
Elsewhere plea
Defendant's defense
Ike
Ike's specialty
Defendant's out
Lawyer's concern.
Whodunit feature
Point in a suspect's favor
Mystery-story ingredient
Word meaning elsewhere
Point in a defendant's favor
Pretext, perhaps
Excuse at court
At another place: Lat.
___ Ike (buck-passer)
A defense at court
Pretext, possibly
Exonerating excuse
___ Ike: Lardner
Suspect's need
Criminal's concern
Defendant's defense, sometimes
This is sometimes ironclad
Suspect's out
Mason's concern.
Lardner's ___ Ike
Ironclad defense, usually
Epithet for Ike
Defendant's mainstay
Defense at court
Something to fall back on
I was at my girlfriend's, e.g.
Defense witness, perhaps
Story, sometimes
I ran out of gas, e.g.
Accused's need
Accused's excuse
Defendant's excuse
I was out of town at the time of the murder, e.g.
Suspect's story
Corroborator, maybe
Suspect's excuse
I was at a movie theater when it happened, e.g.
It's good when airtight
Defendant's testimony, maybe
Cover, so to speak
It's best when it's airtight
I was home watching TV, e.g.
I couldn't have done it because ..., e.g.
Proof you weren't anywhere near the murder
I was at the movies - nowhere near the crime, e.g.
One may be cast-iron
Whodunit story?
It's just an excuse
I was with my mistress at the time, maybe
Often-questionable account
Accused's line a judge might not believe
Story that lets you off the hook
Story that one generally sticks to, whether it's true or not
Story of why you really couldn't have done it
Get out of jail story
I was with my girlfriend all evening, e.g.
Plea - excuse
I was elsewhere plea
Plea of I was not there
Proof of absence
Plea of being elsewhere
Excuse - plea of being elsewhere
Legal defence
A defence
A proof of innocence
Legal proof of innocence
Story confirming innocence
Defence of being elsewhere
A legal defence
Proof of being somewhere else at the time
Evidence of
Proof of being elsewhere
Excuse for not doing something
Legal defence proving innocence
Evidence that the accused could not have been guilty
Excuse used by criminal I birched
Jumping bail? I must give a reason
Bail broken? One makes an excuse
One in white vestment I excuse
Lawyer's weapon, Latin for 'elsewhere'
Legal term from the Latin 'elsewhere'
Legal defence, plea
Fact of being elsewhere
Excuse, defence
Defence used by an accused person
Plea of absence
Excuse, in law
Reason often given to exculpate someone
Defence of one ending a party
Fighter with massive cut, one should get away with it
I bail out, saying I was somewhere else
Arabian Nights' character loses a graduate and has one excuse
In Bali one possibly found an excuse
Excuse, in part, the Casanova libido
Former heavyweight Bomber's single defence
A Liberal, one called in defence
The story of Bali Bill
Boxer has two-part defence
One on bail made up excuse
Proof of innocence given by setter during arrangement of bail
Excuse for one trailing after a Liberal
I bail out with an excuse
Adult sex drive won't do as a defence
A Liberal has one excuse
Excuse for party in capital
Plea to hold small party in first-class accommodation
Politician protected by first-class defence
Claim that one's in French town, for example
Defence gets one bail improperly
Defence of California resort unbounded by Italy
Politician in first-class cover-up
An out-of-the-way plea
Account mostly sent back in first-class defence
A politician I must follow as an excuse
Primarily, accused party may need one?
Tory-Liberal [ibid] quota for Defence
A bit of 8 first line of defence
Defence plea of many a libidinous character?
Perhaps Clegg gets in great excuse
Excuse for unnatural sex act involving movement of women, perhaps
Legal defense mechanism?
I was home alone, perhaps
What A is for, in Sue Graftons mystery series
Crooks cover
Defense concern
Story on a stand
The best one is airtight
A coalition party's current excuse for failure
After breaking bail, writer provides evidence refuting 8
Bail set before one delivers defence
Proof of a convenient absence?
Defence shown by boxer with giant cut
Defence of the absent
Defence of road going to close, say?
A politician has one form of defence
Defence of Italy twice cut ball out
I couldnt have robbed the bank–I was at the movies with my mother, for example
Story told in defense
Whodunit excuse
Courtroom clearer, perhaps
Accuseds explanation
Whodunit statement
Courtroom defense
Accuseds out
Cover for a crime
Excuse that might be ironclad
Suspects proof of innocence
Whodunit plot element
Trying out?
Blame-avoiding story
Courtroom claim
Story in a crime story
Interrogation story
A Is for ___ (Sue Grafton novel)
Part of many a Law & Order plot
The dog ate my homework, e.g.
Something often heard in the police interrogation room
Good thing to take to the police station
One can help you get off
Rap-beating story
Something checked in a case
Defence for individual arranged with bail (5)
I was out of town that weekend, e.g.
Law & Order suspect-clearer
Story that might help you get off
It was my evil twin! is not a convincing one
Legal term from the Latin for elsewhere
I was at home watering my plants when the robbery took place, e.g.
Accuseds I was somewhere else story
Suspects story of innocence
Suspects cover story
Story to stick to
Criminal defense
Crime story statement
Breaking bail — one's excuse?
Piercing tool
Metal
Aristocratic
Wear (away)
Under discussion
Latter part of the day
Court fool
Trivial objection
Salad plant
Vital gas
Arrest group of seven overheard
Hold it up – it's not so big
Radiance observed over Hungary
Comic remarks about new monarch getting a frosty time
Trimming margins, act as soon as I have plan
Twice, say, accepting Republican promises of payment - very bad
Conk cleaner on flipping head for showing awful rage
Dog died in seaside town
Marriage witness's cap is upside down!
Bloody conflict is over
Criminal once hurt with butt of iron club
British boxer comes to an island
Main issue when hunting is permitted
One theologian upset eating old Cypriot cheese
Aided
Excuse current in French town
Broken bail, one excuse for not being there
Defence starts to address legal issues behind injunction
Most of all, I attempt to overlook daughter's justification
Boxer once swinging both ways in defence
A politician, one giving evidence in court
Boxer with brio occasionally providing cover story
Evidential statement, mostly set down, regarding certain sexual behaviour
A vital urge to abandon party, making excuse
Excuse any ludicrous in-fighting by incompetent leaders
Defence starts to argue legal issue, blocking injunction
Story of a large wading bird with no tail
Liberal involved in first-class defence
Boxer, one possessing second-rate defence
Heavyweight boxers first international defence
Excuse me leaving meal before I begin its starters
Calf and tibia discovered to be explanation of movements
Crosophile en ville near Toulouse? Not with this perhaps
Politician taken in by excellent excuse
Excuse one in vestment beside the writer
Excuse excellent that secures freedom
Bimbo regularly interrupts boxers defence
Excuse of boxer swinging this way and that?
Excuse in court excellent defending one bishop on line
Defendants offering
Defense___
Ikes excuse?
Cover story?
Clearing device?
Legal get-out
The greatest Belgium international defence
It may be fictional
It may check out
I was out of town that week, for example
I couldnt have eaten the last eclair since I havent been home all day, for example
Backtracking, caught in fib, I laugh and say, I was in Pizza Express in Woking at the time”
I was on vacation at the time of the robbery, e.g.
I was out of town that day, say
It puts one in the clear
Bail arranged by one for the defence
Law & Order excuse
I was somewhere else statement
I was somewhere else statement
A lawyer may try to poke holes in it
Jumping bail Hippogryph reveals proof of being elsewhere at the time
What may keep you from prison in Bali, bizarrely
Suspect story
Some criminal I bill for this defence
Criminals excuse in court
What may keep you from prison in Bali, bizarrely (5)
Detective story
A politician with one excuse for failure
Useful story for a suspect
Literally, in another place
Legal excuse thats the Latin word for "elsewhere"
Whodunit trope
Occasionally tabloid called out Timess excuse
Proof one didn’t commit a crime
I bail out?
I couldnt have robbed that bank, because I was at a crossword tournament, e.g.
Excuse from Crystal, I bilked
Excuse that may be presented in court
Claim made stronger by a witness
One may guarantee your whereabouts
Pal’s fibs built central part of criminal defence
Excuse getting both Caliban and Cain out of prison




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