Detective story? Crossword Clue

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Detective story? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
2. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
(verb)
1. exonerate by means of an alibi

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DETECTIVE (noun)
1. a police officer who investigates crimes
2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
STORY (noun)
1. a record or narrative description of past events
2. a trivial lie

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
BIALI

More LA Times Crossword (10/1/2025) Answers

Across

1. Ill-fitting

6. Ground-breaking tool

11. Passed with flying colors

15. Zenith's opposite

16. Stand in art class

17. Theater box

18. Enthralled by the theater

20. Apple Variety

21. Outlets

22. Swimwear brand founded in Australia in 1914

24. Viola clef

27. Scallions' kin

30. Squirming

31. Green-and-yellow farm playthings for kids

34. Krauss of bluegrass-country

35. "One more thought ... "

36. Bubbly drink

39. Fled

40. Frozen Four org.

43. Early bloomers

45. Folks who get creative in court

48. Quick bread at tea

52. Boundless

53. Smoothie fruit

55. Lower back bones

57. System operator

58. Shift responsibility to someone else, and an apt title for this puzzle

64. Spot for curlers

65. Lauder of cosmetics

66. First Greek letter

67. Intrusive

68. Veggies for chips

69. Intel job

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Down

1. LiMu business

2. D.C. ballplayer

3. 1990 accessibility law, for short

4. Statue toppers

5. Dino with long teeth and short arms

6. Small sofa

7. Text analyst

8. Tempe sch.

9. Advent mo.

10. Community group with lodges

11. Extraterrestrial visitors, perhaps

12. Extraterrestrial visitor, certainly

13. 'Yikes!'

14. Wooden duck, e.g.

19. "Hush!"

23. Shareholder dividend

24. Slightly cracked

25. Title person in a Kinks hit

26. Lean

28. Mauna __: alphabetically first of two Hawaiian volcanoes with similar names

29. Mo. town

32. Party animal?

33. Big bird

36. Tuscan tower town

37. Makes a choice

38. Covert summons

41. One step ___ time

42. Knee stabilizer, for short

44. Suitable for habitation

45. Snidely critical

46. Sounded like a 59-Down

47. Becomes less intense

48. Rebuff

49. Label printer maker

50. Blossoms

54. Gibbons, e.g.

56. Nurture

59. Nile snake

60. Early Beatles bassist Sutcliffe

61. Scanned lines on a pkg.

62. Margaret of Fire Island

63. Mo. neighbor

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