| SCAREMONGERS | People who spread frightening reports or rumours |
| STIRRER | One who spreads frightening or malicious rumours (7) |
| SCAREMONGER | One who spreads frightening rumours (11) |
| CAREMONGERS | People who spread empathy? |
| SAXON | Member of a West Germanic people who spread from Schleswig to the Rhine in Roman times (5) |
| BRUIT | From "bellow, bray, roar", a word for clamour or noise; a loud outcry; a report or rumour; or, a murmur heard on auscultation with a stethoscope (5) |
| BUZZ | The sound of bees in flight; a telephone call; a whispered report or rumour; or, a sense of euphoria (4) |
| EXPOSES | Reports or articles in the media uncovering crimes or scandals (7) |
| ALBUM | Abbey Road or Rumours, for example |
| HUSHUP | Suppress information or rumours |
| MURMURINGS | Subdued complaints or rumours |
| ORAL | Like some reports or thermometers |
| NEWENGLANDERS | Americans who spread the news in Greenland (3,10) |
| DYEING | Cutting out reports or adding a colourful feature (6) |
| AVERS | Reports or maintains |
| NEW | Americans who spread the news in Greenland (3,10) |
| YEATS | Poet who spread his dreams under your feet? (5) |
| ONIONWEED | Woe on Enid, who spread lawn infestation (5,4) |
| ARTICLE | A clause of the Creed or of a contract; an item of business; the adjective "the"; a feature, piece, report or other journalistic composition; or, an object, thingamy or whatsit (7) |
| TATTLER | One who engages in gossip or rumour (7) |
