Injurious to reputation of someone brilliant and loving Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Injurious to reputation of someone brilliant and loving featured in Times Cryptic puzzle on September 17, 2025. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 10 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is DEFAMATORY.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% DEFAMATORY Injurious to reputation of someone brilliant and loving (10) The Times Cryptic Sep 17, 2025
3% ACE Brilliant! (3) Puzzler Backwords Sep 4, 2025
3% BESMIRCH Damage someone's reputation (8) (8)
2% DAMAGE Injury (6) (6) Mirror Quick Sep 17, 2025
2% TELL ___ on someone (snitch) (4)
2% GASH Injury in German wood (4) (4) Mirror Cryptic Sep 10, 2025
2% BRUISE Injury, discoloured skin (6) (6) The Sun Mini Sep 9, 2025
2% SCAR Injury vestige (4) Premier Sunday Sep 7, 2025
2% RUB "___ someone the wrong way" (annoy someone) (3)
2% GRAZE Scraped injury (5) The Telegraph Quick Aug 31, 2025

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