| ENTREATING | Making a plea |
| ALIBI | A politician, one making a plea |
| ASKING | Making a plea as a sovereign |
| OLIVE | Girl making a plea to one at death's door? (5) |
| APRON | Girl making a plea to one at death's door? (5) |
| CRY | A plea, shout or urgent appeal; a fit of weeping; a pack of hounds or their hunting bay; a proclamation of a town's bellringer; or, the call of a street-trader selling goods (3) |
| COPS | ___ a plea (works a deal with the D.A.) |
| CONTENDERE | Where it is allowed, a plea of nolo ____ is often part of a plea bargain |
| COP | ___ a plea (bargain for a lighter sentence) |
| OROMEO | Start of a plea from a balcony |
| ORDEAL | A trial. Alternatively a plea bargain |
| APPEAR | There's a plea for a final change of direction, look |
| ASBESTOS | A plea from a ship with cargo of superlative mineral (8) |
| LEIA | Princess who makes a plea via a hologram |
| BOUNDLESS | Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor ___ sea, / But sad mortality o'ersways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower? |
| EPILATED | A plea to go on a diet or have the hair removed? (8) |
| NOR | "Since brass, ___ stone, ___ earth, ___ boundless sea, but sad mortality o'er-sways their power, how with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, whose action is no stronger than a flower?..." -Shakespear |
| ESPLANADE | Send a plea out for a seaside walk (9) |
| NOLO | Beginning of a plea |
| ALLEGE | State, as a plea |
