Related Clues:

• Pardon! The dog ate your homework?
• Defence offering pardon
• Pardon former copper beginning to sell illegal drug
• Make allowances for; forgive
• Make apologies for
• Old copper's given directions out
• Release without computer's initial application
• Seek to justify (a fault)
• Upstanding community members
• Tennyson's Lady Clara heard to turn away
• Mitigate; forgive
• Forgive (an offence)
• Defence, justification
• Release (from a duty)
• Cop out? Former case of sabotage keeps copper in