blameless vs in the clear

blameless

adj
  • Free from blame; without fault; innocent 

  • Not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof. 

in the clear

prep
  • Not guilty or not suspected of wrongdoing. 

  • Transmitted without encryption or scrambling. 

  • No longer in danger. 

How often have the words blameless and in the clear occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )