Related Clues:

• Daniel (anag.)
• Renunciation
• Victim in complete denial
• Only later getting upset about the contradiction
• Counter-argument later changed to accommodate objection
• The last of a cigarette, in true denial
• Counter-argument that's genuine about central target
• Dismissal of agreement about Ulster
• Victim in genuine denial
• Only later gets flustered about the disproof
• Refusal to be crooked in deal
• Laughing stock snared by factual disproof
• Defendant gives this reply, but later falls apart
• Object of ridicule in genuine denial of charge
• Abnegation