Related Clues:

• Man from Malta, say, not one for defamatory talk
• Dress rehearsal finishes with Queen delivering 'Scandal'
• Person surrounded by sea, not the first to drag through the mud
• Libel's counterpart
• Mud-slinging apprentice jams tool
• False report by Brit, maybe doffing cap
• Malicious spoken statement
• False and malicious spoken statement
• Mud-slinging tool traps learner
• Libel, in speech
• Defame verbally
• One brought back to earth after Sun's character assassination
• Oral defamation
• Untrue and damaging statements about someone
• Run down, in a way