Excuse
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

OUT
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"

4 letters

PLEA
An answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

5 letters

ALIBI
(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question

STORY
A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

6 letters

BEGOFF
Ask for permission to be released from an engagement

EXEMPT
(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"

PARDON
The act of excusing a mistake or offense

LETOFF
Grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"

7 letters

RELIEVE
Relieve oneself of troubling information

APOLOGY
A poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"

JUSTIFY
Adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"

PRETEXT
An artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

CONDONE
Excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"

EXPLAIN
Serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"

ABSOLVE
Let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"

EVASION
The act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

FORGIVE
Absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"

9 letters

APOLOGISE
Acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"

APOLOGIZE
Acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"

10 letters

GOODREASON

11 letters

RATIONALISE
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

RATIONALIZE
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

EXCULPATION
The act of freeing from guilt or blame

13 letters

JUSTIFICATION
The act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller

15 letters

RATIONALIZATION
Systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale

17 letters

SELFJUSTIFICATION