Suspect's story Crossword Clue

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Suspect's story Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
2. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
(verb)
1. exonerate by means of an alibi

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SUSPECT (verb)
1. imagine to be the case or true or probable
2. regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
SUSPECT (noun)
1. a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
2. someone who is under suspicion
SUSPECT (adjective)
1. not as expected
STORY (noun)
1. a record or narrative description of past events
2. a trivial lie

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
BIALI

More LA Times Crossword (7/28/2025) Answers

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15. Scottish water

17. Nonverbal signal during a conversation

19. Fan mags

20. Steve Harvey, for one

21. Tease playfully

23. Test taken by some college srs.

24. [Correct!]

25. Falafel cart breads

28. A Series of Unfortunate Events villain __ Squalor

29. Commercial suffix with Cray- or Motor-

30. Opera solo

33. British noble

36. Pressed (on)

40. Whoppers, e.g.

43. Hatchling sound

44. Stretch across

45. Commuter's expense

46. Narrow inlet

48. Source of creative inspiration

50. Driver's two-wheeler carrier

55. Core muscles

58. Lille chum

59. Prix ___ menu

60. Snappable chocolate bar

62. __ Rae: Sally Field Oscar role

64. Summertime backyard bash, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 25-, 40-, and 50-Across

66. Luxury Italian handbag brand

67. Campaign staffer

68. Sickle or saw

69. One of 1,406 for Rickey Henderson

70. Letters before a summary

71. Novelist Rice

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Down

1. Damp-smelling

2. ___ and beyond

3. Computer troubleshooters

4. Set of three

5. Too early or too late

6. Soft shoe, briefly

7. Integra automaker

8. Like items on clearance

9. Nightspot for cool cats

10. Yale grad

11. Trace of color

12. Only movie critic with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

13. Levitates

18. Egyptian serpents

22. Menagerie

26. Blue Jays and Blue Jackets

27. Martial art featured on "Cobra Kai"

28. Restaurant

30. Mayfair Witches cable network

31. Cheer syllable

32. Suffix with infant

34. Tear roughly

35. Woolly animal of Peru

37. Mop & __

38. Pipe bend shape

39. Broadband inits.

41. Magnificent blunder

42. Pitch that moves unpredictably

47. Boxer Muhammad

49. Playlist option

50. Across-the-forehead hairstyle

51. 'Catch ya later!'

52. "Odyssey" sorceress

53. One living overseas, for short

54. Tend to a pesky squeak

55. Ohio's Rubber City

56. ___ Rouge

57. Fashion sense

61. Bye now!

63. Old record label

65. Kind of weird

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