Related Clues:

• Plea of the innocent
• Terse refusal
• Innocent's claim
• Polite turndown
• Polite denial
• 'Don't look at me'
• Reply of innocence
• Phrase of denial
• Reply to a storybook hen
• ''Don't look at me!''
• 'It wasn't me!'
• Words of self-denial?
• Denier's comment
• Terse demurral
• Formal denial