| Courtroom excuse |
| Accused's claim |
| Excuse |
| Accused perp's excuse |
| Accused's retort |
| Defendant's excuse |
| Excuse maker's refrain |
| Rude response to "Excuse me? |
| Accused one's cries |
| Perp's pretext |
| Like some excuses |
| Beauty is ___ own excuse for being |
| Accused's bond |
| Accused's defense |
| Accepts, as an excuse |
| Arrestee's excuse |
| Accused person's bond |
| Alleged perp's defense |
| Age-old excuse |
| Unsatisfactory, as excuses |
| Furnished an excuse |
| Cause for an "Excuse me! |
| Accused's out |
| A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure," per Ambrose Bierce |
| Accused |
| Accused person's lawyer |
| Accused's bad break |
| Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number ...? |
| Accused murderess memorialized in a jump-rope rhyme |
| Implausible, as an excuse |