Crossword Clue: Cover for a crime

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Possibly related crossword clues for "Cover for a crime"

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• ''___ Ike''
• ___ Ike (buck-passer)
• ___ Ike (excuse maker)
• "___ Ike": Lardner
• "___ Ike" (Ring Lardner story)
• ___ Ike
• ____ Ike
• A defendant's might be unshakable
• A defense at court
• "A Is for ___" (Sue Grafton novel)
• A suspect's might be suspect
• A witness may verify it
• A witness may verify one
• Account to question
• Accused one's defense
• Accused one's need
• Accused perp's excuse
• Accused's defense
• Accused's excuse
• Accused's explanation
• Accused's line a judge might not believe
• Accused's need
• Accused's out
• Accused's story
• Best defense, in some cases
• Arrestee's defense
• Arrestee's excuse
• At another place: Lat.
• Blame-avoiding explanation
• Blame-avoiding story
• Blame-dodging excuse
• Airtight David Gray song?
• Airtight story
• "Airtight" story
• Alleged perp's defense
• Alleged perp's need
• Grafton's "A"
• Grafton’s “A”
• Grafton's "A Is for ___"
• Grafton's A
• Interrogation room account
• Interrogation story
• Ironclad defense, usually
• Defence
• Defence excuse
• Defence plea
• Defendant's best hope
• Defendant's cover story
• Defendant's defense, sometimes
• Defendant's defense
• Defendant's dodge
• Defendant's excuse that might be called "airtight"
• Defendant's excuse
• Defendant's mainstay
• Defendant's need
• Defendant's offering
• Defendant's out
• Defendant's ploy
• Defendant's story
• Defendant's testimony, maybe
• Defendant's words
• Defense
• Defense aid
• Defense at court
• Defense concern
• Defense establishment?
• Defense in a courtroom
• Defense mechanism
• Defense mechanism?
• Defense of a sort
• Defense, perhaps
• Defense ploy
• Defense strategy
• Defense witness, perhaps
• Defense's focal point
• Defensive line?
• Defensive story
• Certain testimony
• It can keep one from going to jail
• It can keep you out of jail
• Hood's excuse
• It could be a strong defense
• It could be ironclad
• It could clear you
• It eliminates a suspect
• It eliminates suspects
• It literally means "elsewhere"
• It may be airtight
• Element of a murder mystery
• It may be heard at a hearing
• It may be ironclad
• It may clear a suspect
• It may help one get away with murder
• Elsewhere excuse
• Elsewhere: Lat.
• Elsewhere plea
• It means "elsewhere" in Latin
• Convenient story
• It might be airtight
• It might be unshakable
• It should be airtight
• "It wasn't me!" support
• End of the first Millhone novel title
• Corroborator, maybe
• It'll fly if it's airtight
• It'll fly if it's ironclad
• It's best when airtight
• It's best when it's airtight
• "Couldn't have been me" rationale
• Couldn't-have-done-it reason
• "I couldn't have done it because ...," e.g.
• "I couldn't have done that" excuse
• "I couldn't have eaten the last piece of your birthday cake, I was in...the...room...with...the...guy," for one
• It's good when airtight
• "I had to visit my sick aunt," e.g.
• It's just an excuse
• "I ran out of gas," e.g.
• Court defense
• Court excuse
• Court story
• "Get out of jail" story
• "I was asleep at the time," e.g.
• "I was asleep," for one
• "I was at a movie theater when it happened," e.g.
• "I was at a movie when it happened," e.g.
• "I was at a movie when the crime occurred," e.g.
• "I was at home in bed," for example
• "I was at home sleeping at the time," e.g.
• "I was at home washing my dog," e.g.
• "I was at my friend's all night," e.g.
• "I was at my girlfriend's," e.g.
• "I was at the club that night," e.g.
• "I was at the movies at the time," e.g.
• "I was at the movies," e.g.
• "I was at the movies - nowhere near the crime," e.g.
• "I was at work all day," e.g.
• "I was at work then," e.g.
• "I was away on business," e.g.
• "I was elsewhere" excuse
• "I was home all night," for one
• "I was home alone, asleep" isn't a very good one
• "I was home alone" isn't a very strong one
• "I was home alone," perhaps
• "I was home watching TV," e.g.
• "I was nowhere near Oakland," e.g.
• "I was out of the country," e.g.
• "I was out of town at the time," e.g.
• ''I was out of town at the time,'' e.g.
• "I was out of town at the time of the murder," e.g.
• "I was out of town," e.g.
• "I was out of town," for one
• "I was out of town that night," e.g.
• "I was out of town then," e.g.
• "I was sleeping at the time," e.g.
• "I was stuck in traffic at the time," e.g.
• "I was visiting my cousin at the time," for example
• "I was volunteering at the orphanage at the time of the murder," e.g.
• "I was walking the dog at the time," e.g.
• "I was with my girlfriend all night," say
• "I was with my mistress at the time," maybe
• "I wasn't there," e.g.
• "I wasn't there"
• Courtroom claim
• Courtroom clearer, perhaps
• Courtroom defence
• Courtroom defense
• Courtroom excuse
• Courtroom story
• Courtroom voucher?
• Cover for a crime
• Cover of a kind
• Cover, so to speak
• Cover story
• Cover story of a sort
• Cover story?
• Cover
• Epithet for Ike
• Claim that one was somewhere else at the time of a crime
• Claim while cuffed
• Ike's excuse?
• Ike's first name?
• Ike's specialty
• Jail-avoiding cover
• Clearing device?
• Clearing statement
• Crime-story story
• Crime story?
• Crime suspect's cover story
• Criminal excuse
• Criminal explanation
• Criminal's concern
• Crook's cover
• Evidence for the defense
• Evidence of innocence, sometimes
• Evidence of (or excuse for) being somewhere else at the time
• Hearing aid?
• Exculpatory evidence
• Exculpatory story
• Excuse.
• Excuse at court
• Excuse for not doing something
• Excuse for the judge
• Excuse for the police
• Excuse from a suspect
• Excuse heard in court
• Excuse in a whodunit
• Excuse in court
• Excuse of a David Gray song?
• Excuse of a sort
• Excuse of being elsewhere.
• Excuse of the accused
• Excuse that might be "ironclad"
• Excuse that might exonerate a suspect
• Excuse to avoid blame
• Excuse
• Culprit's standby
• Exonerating excuse
• "Her ___" (Selleck film)
• "Her ___," Selleck film
• Innocence indicator, perhaps
• Innocence indicator
• Justification
• Ring Lardner's "___ Ike"
• Whereabouts excuse
• Out at a trial
• Out, at the police station
• Out at the station
• Out for a trial
• Out for the accused
• Out in a courtroom
• Out in court
• Out lines?
• Story in a crime story
• Story in a whodunit
• Story including a time and place
• Out of sorts?
• Out, of sorts?
• Out, of sorts
• Story of a kind
• Story of why you really couldn't have done it
• Story on a stand
• Story that lets you off the hook
• Story that one generally sticks to, whether it's true or not
• Story that proves one's innocence
• Story that proves you couldn't have committed the crime
• Story to verify
• Story used for a legal defense
• Story
• Out on the stand
• Out
• The best one is airtight
• Whodunit element
• Whodunit excuse
• Whodunit feature
• Whodunit plot element
• Whodunit plot line
• Whodunit staple
• Whodunit statement
• Whodunit story?
• Whodunit story
• "The dog ate my homework," e.g.
• Plausible excuse
• Mason's concern
• Murder mystery story
• Trapt song for the accused?
• Something that should be airtight
• Something to fall back on?
• Subject of corroboration
• "Somewhere else" excuse
• Likely story?
• Trial excuse
• Trial ploy
• Vouch for, perhaps
• Voucher?
• Often-questionable account
• Point in a defendant's favor
• Point in a suspect's favor
• Mystery-story ingredient
• Witness's testimony about how a defendant couldn't have committed the crime
• Literally, '' at another place''
• Literally, "elsewhere"
• Literally, "in another place"
• Literally, ''in another place''
• Part of a court defense
• Part of a defendant's case, often
• Part of a defense
• Ramones "You know I need no ___"
• Lardner's ___ Ike
• Lardner's "___ Ike"
• Possible proof of innocence
• One may be airtight
• One may be cast-iron
• One may be given to a detective
• One might be airtight
• Lawyer's concern
• One might not hold up in court
• One might stand up in court
• Legal defence proving innocence
• Legal defence
• Legal defense mechanism?
• Legal defense
• Legal excuse
• Legal plea
• Legal plea.
• "Perfect murder" component
• Perp-to-cop story
• Perp's cover story
• Perp's cover
• Perp's excuse
• Perp's out
• Perp's pretext
• Perp's story
• Person of interest's cover
• Pretext, perhaps
• Pretext, possibly
• Pretext
• One's out
• Make excuses
• Proof of being elsewhere
• Proof of innocence, maybe
• Proof of innocence, perhaps
• Proof of innocence
• Proof of one's where abouts
• Proof you weren't anywhere near the murder
• Trying out?
• Word meaning "elsewhere"
• Way out?
• Way out, of a sort
• Way out
• Suspect-clearing statement
• Suspect-clearing story
• Suspect eliminator
• Suspected perp's story
• Suspect's "airtight" excuse
• Suspect's best defence
• Suspect's claim
• Suspect's concern
• Suspect's defence
• Suspect's defense
• Suspect's excuse that a police officer might try to confirm
• Suspect's excuse
• Suspect's explanation of where he or she was at a certain time
• Suspect's explanation
• Suspect's "I was home all night," e.g.
• Suspect's "I was home asleep," e.g.
• Suspect's necessity
• Suspect's need
• Suspect's "out"
• Suspect's out
• Suspect's proof of innocence
• Suspect's salvation?
• Suspect's story
• Suspect's trump card
• Suspect's way out
• Saving yarn?
• Thin Lizzy "Waiting for an ___"
• Thin Lizzy was "Waiting for" one
• Well-known Ike
• Thing given to the police
• Thing often given to a detective
• This is sometimes ironclad
• "This Is War" 30 Seconds to Mars song for a cover story?
• What "A" is for, in Sue Grafton's mystery series
• What a murder suspect needs
• What a witness may verify
• What an accused perpetrator needs
• Wrongdoer's excuse
• Tale told in an interrogation room
• Tall story, often
• Stand out?
• "Slip cover"
• Slip cover?
• Seemingly good excuse

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• Newsday - Sept. 28, 2018
• LA Times - Dec. 26, 2014

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