21.   When he was asked about his desire to get into baseball despite all that he knew, Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, had a ready explanation.

22.   Fisher also had an explanation ready for their late arrival.

23.   Tall, wizened with age but clear in eye and mind, Nahum had been long resident in this area and had a ready explanation.

24.   The most common complaints were of joint pain, fatigue, headache and memory loss for which there was no ready explanation.

25.   The state of their mutilated bodies recovered later is the ready explanation for why Caco was to die in police custody when he allegedly tried to escape.