| False report of detached inhabitant headed off (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
21 Nov 2025 |
| Doctor snarled defamatory words |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
12 Nov 2025 |
| 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 |
|
|
| It smooths over Labour leader's false report |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Jan 2024 |
| Defamation |
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 |
| Mud-slinging tool traps learner |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Oct 2019 |
| Defamation |
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 |
|
|
| Bad-mouth |
|
|
| Bad-mouth |
|
|
| Spoken defamation |
|
|
| Smear with mud, say |
|
|
| Actionable words |
|
|
| Bad-mouth |
|
|
| Bad-mouth |
|
|
| Give a bad name |
|
|
| Dirt, so to speak |
|
|
| Dirt, so to speak |
|
|
| Actionable words |
|
|
| Falsely malign |
|
|
| Debase |
|
|
| Defamation |
|
|
| Defamation |
|
|
| Put down |
|
|
| Malign |
|
|
| Malign |
|
|
| Calumny |
|
|
| Throw dirt on |
|
|
| Damaging remark |
|
|
| Vilification |
|
|
| Defame |
|
|
| Malign |
|
|
| Defame |
|
|
| Calumniate. |
|
|
| Cause for legal action. |
|
|
| Malicious report. |
|
|
| Weapon of the "witch-hunters." |
|
|
| "Ordeal by ___"—Lattimore. |
|
|
| Defamation of character by spoken words, signs, gestures, etc. |
|
|
| Malign. |
|
|
| Basis of some campaign speeches. |
|
|
| False report. |
|
|
| Defamation of character. |
|
|
| Injure by malicious talk. |
|
|
| Canard. |
|
|
| Unkind gossip. |
|
|
| Calumniation. |
|
|
| Defamation. |
|
|
| "Meanest spawn of hell." |
|
|
| Backbite. |
|
|
| Speak ill of. |
|
|