| BELIE | Fail to justify short strike in other words (5) |
| PECCADILLO | Indiscretion where rogue hostile after short strike over |
| ATAPINCH | Move cautiously after a short strike if absolutely necessary |
| OBELI | Fail to justify cut with old daggers |
| DISBELIEVING | Refusing to accept sons fail to justify being in pool event |
| JEEPS | Starts to justify expense equipping public service vehicles (5) |
| BELIEF | Conviction to fail to justify with force |
| CENTS | Americans for Common ___, who asked for a study to justify keeping the penny |
| CASUS | An event or act used to justify a war |
| BELLI | An event or act used to justify a war |
| UNDESERVE | Fail to justify a lot of insufficient aid |
| ENDS | What, in the saying, are supposed to justify the means |
| UNPROVABLE | Lacking the capacity to host for five? Impossible to justify (10) |
| NOT | Failing to justify cost of emergency lighting? (3,5,3,6) |
| WORTHTHE | Failing to justify cost of emergency lighting? (3,5,3,6) |
| CANDLE | Failing to justify cost of emergency lighting? (3,5,3,6) |
| ACCOUNTABLE | Bound to justify attempts to clean out cab (11) |
| VINDICATE | I am able to justify the manner in which I evict Dan (9) |
| EXCUSE | To try to justify former lover is sometimes clumsier |
| EXCLUSIONCLAUSE | Disclaimer to justify retaining large West Coast college in which no one's reading up |
