Related Clues:

• False reason for doing something
• Not the real reason expert suffered taking time
• Excuse for writing a foreword perhaps
• Quietly send another message by way of excuse
• Excuse message before starting
• Excuse put forward before modern communications method
• Excuse of an era preceding electronic messages?
• Excuse is almost fair embracing former wife
• What's not entirely attractive about old flame's excuse?
• False reason, guise
• Deceptive excuse
• Excuse, ruse
• Ostensible justification
• False justification before writing?
• Cover coming before book?