Anagrams of: COUPEES_

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• the exposure of an impostor or a fraud

• expose or make accessible to some action or influence

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• to show, make visible or apparent

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• expose to light, of photographic film

• expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

• abandon by leaving out in the open air

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain

• a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• the chief executive department of the United States government