Related Clues:
- An evasion or failure - by policeman?
- An evasion of responsibility - policeman not at home
- Failure to face some difficulty squarely
- Uninspired excuse
- Lame excuse to give sullen look after officer in charge
- Escape with policeman no longer in power
- Company to show displeasure with lame excuse
- Policeman not allowed to evade responsibility
- 'Can't quite recall...'
- "Can't quite recall..."
- Shirker's excuse
- Avoidance of hard decision (slang)
- Look annoyed after pacifist's cowardly stance
- Avoidance of responsibility, hence joint expression of annoyance?
- Officer on the beat in failure to take responsibility