Related Clues:

• Offensive or inslaught
• Launch an offensive
• Act of aggression
• An assault or onslaught
• Act violently against or criticise strongly
• Assault or criticise violently
• Start a fight or criticise strongly
• Assault, assail
• How offensive to get at the nail like this!
• The way to get at a nail, but not for the defence
• To nail this, by the sound of it, is no defence
• How at the start one may fix it, but not for the defence
• How offensive to be at what has a point
• To get at the point of this, be offensive
• It's most offensive, yet one has a point, by the sound of it