| Throw mud at faceless Samoan? | The Times Cryptic | 15 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Libel's kin | Wall Street Journal | 06 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Calumniate | The Telegraph Quick | 15 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Accuse falsely | Commuter | 27 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Defamation causes space craft to go south (7) | Puzzler Cryptic | 21 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Defamatory speech | USA Today | 19 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Defamation | The Telegraph Quick | 08 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Calumny found in the island erosion (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Verbally defame | Commuter | 04 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Royal Navy deals causing defamation (7) |  |  | 
          
            | The islander's head loses out as a result of such defamation |  |  | 
          
            | Defamatory comments cause islander to lose head (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Manxman, for example, doesn't start defamation |  |  | 
          
            | Injurious defamation (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Libel's spoken equivalent, malign (SNARLED anagram) (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Damage another's reputation |  |  | 
          
            | Smear tactics from one leaving Orcadian, maybe (7) | The Guardian Cryptic | 07 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | False spoken statement (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Defame in speech (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Spoken defamation | The Times Concise | 28 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Mud-slinging detached resident has one missing (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Spread lies about some island eruption (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Make malicious statement (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Malicious gossip as one left one living in Malta, say (7) |  |  | 
          
            | False and malicious spoken statement (7) |  |  | 
          
            | It makes Ed snarl when you defame him (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Defame one from Aran, say, knocking one off (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Malign (7) | Puzzler | 01 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Defamation in spoken form | The Times Specialist | 15 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Calumny | New York Times | 28 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | One from detached area did not start defamation (7) |  |  | 
          
            | New Yorker, or New York center |  |  | 
          
            | Calumny making a Cretan lose his head? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Learns otherwise about the daughter: it's a defamation (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Defame most of the islanders (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Faultless service around the country is an offence! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Mud, Fijian perhaps, lacks iodine |  |  | 
          
            | False report of detached inhabitant headed off (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Defamation | The Sun Two Speed | 30 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | It smooths over Labour leader's false report | The Sun Two Speed | 30 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Smear last bit of oil into power tool (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Malicious comment? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Malicious comment? | The Telegraph Quick | 14 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Dirt, so to speak | LA Times Daily | 31 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Verbal defamation | Universal | 25 Oct 2023 | 
          
            | Tell lies about | Wall Street Journal | 26 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Lesbian perhaps seen topless? That's defamation | The Telegraph Toughie | 19 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Vocally attack solo occasionally with Queen | The Telegraph Toughie | 27 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Libel's kin | Thomas Joseph | 10 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | Words spoken that falsely damage someone's reputation | The Guardian Quick | 07 Jan 2023 | 
          
            | Speak badly of | Universal | 15 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Run down, in a way | New York Times | 04 Mar 2022 | 
          
            | Oral defamation | The Washington Post Sunday | 27 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Untrue and damaging statements about someone | Family Time | 27 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Calumny | The Guardian Quick | 02 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | One brought back to earth after Sun's character assassination |  |  | 
          
            | Cast doubts on rotating spacecrafts |  |  | 
          
            | Defame verbally | LA Times Daily | 22 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Defame verbally | The Washington Post | 22 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Defamation | The Telegraph Quick | 10 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Malicious spoken statement | The Times Concise | 04 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Defamation | The Sun Two Speed | 22 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Mud-slinging tool traps learner | The Sun Two Speed | 22 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Speak ill of topless Lesbian? |  |  | 
          
            | Cuban, perhaps, doesn't open false accusation |  |  | 
          
            | False report by Brit, maybe doffing cap |  |  | 
          
            | Large tool shown around brings calumny |  |  | 
          
            | Libel's kin | Thomas Joseph | 07 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | Defamation put down in sermon? Not half |  |  | 
          
            | Mud-slinging apprentice jams tool | The Sun Two Speed | 20 Nov 2018 | 
          
            | Defamation put down in sermon? Not half |  |  | 
          
            | Sling mud | Eugene Sheffer | 30 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | Man's man possibly overlooking current actionable comment |  |  | 
          
            | Libel's counterpart | Thomas Joseph | 20 Apr 2017 | 
          
            | Spoken defamation | The Times Concise | 15 Feb 2017 | 
          
            | Person surrounded by sea, not the first to drag through the mud | The Telegraph Cryptic | 05 Aug 2016 | 
          
            | Cast aspersions on | Universal | 05 May 2016 | 
          
            | It smooths over Labour leader's false report |  |  | 
          
            | Malign | The Telegraph Quick | 16 Nov 2015 | 
          
            | Bad-mouth | Wall Street Journal | 13 Jul 2015 | 
          
            | Calumny | The Times Concise | 12 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | Defamation of a sort |  |  | 
          
            | Belittle success by German authority |  |  | 
          
            | Spoken slur |  |  | 
          
            | Libel's spoken equivalent |  |  | 
          
            | Smear with mud, say |  |  | 
          
            | Bad-mouth |  |  | 
          
            | Spoken defamation |  |  | 
          
            | Bad-mouth |  |  | 
          
            | Actionable words |  |  | 
          
            | Bad-mouth |  |  | 
          
            | Bad-mouth |  |  | 
          
            | Give a bad name |  |  | 
          
            | Falsely malign |  |  | 
          
            | Dirt, so to speak |  |  | 
          
            | Actionable words |  |  | 
          
            | Debase |  |  | 
          
            | Dirt, so to speak |  |  | 
          
            | Defamation |  |  | 
          
            | Defamation |  |  | 
          
            | Put down |  |  | 
          
            | Malign |  |  | 
          
            | Malign |  |  | 
          
            | Throw dirt on |  |  | 
          
            | Calumny |  |  | 
          
            | Damaging remark |  |  | 
          
            | Vilification |  |  | 
          
            | Defame |  |  | 
          
            | Malign |  |  | 
          
            | Defame |  |  | 
          
            | Cause for legal action. |  |  | 
          
            | Malicious report. |  |  | 
          
            | Weapon of the "witch-hunters." |  |  | 
          
            | "Ordeal by ___"—Lattimore. |  |  | 
          
            | Defamation of character by spoken words, signs, gestures, etc. |  |  | 
          
            | Calumniation. |  |  | 
          
            | False report. |  |  | 
          
            | Defamation of character. |  |  | 
          
            | Injure by malicious talk. |  |  | 
          
            | Canard. |  |  | 
          
            | Basis of some campaign speeches. |  |  | 
          
            | Unkind gossip. |  |  | 
          
            | Backbite. |  |  | 
          
            | Malign. |  |  | 
          
            | Defamation. |  |  | 
          
            | "Meanest spawn of hell." |  |  | 
          
            | Speak ill of. |  |  | 
          
            | Calumniate. |  |  |