| SLANDERED | Uttered or circulated false or defamatory words about a person (9) |
| SLANDER | Any false or defamatory words spoken about a person (7) |
| LIBERAL | Defamatory words about artist being broad-minded |
| RUMPUS | Word, from "clamour, din, outcry, roar", for the report broadcast or circulated via bush telegraph, busybody, flibbertigibbet, gossiper, quidnunc, scandalmonger or tattler (6) |
| SAID | Uttered or interjected |
| UNPRONOUNCEABLE | Not able to be uttered or articulated (15) |
| SCURRILOUS | Abusive or defamatory (10) |
| PIONINTRO | Emcee's words about a subatomic particle? |
| DOCUDRAMA | TV programme depicting true facts about a person or event (9) |
| BIOGRAPHY | Book about a person's life (9) |
| STREAKING | 70s fad that revealed much about a person |
| TRADUCEMENT | Defamatory words nasty man uttered about start of conference |
| DENOUNCECAP | Say a few disparaging words about a baseball hat? |
| SPANIEL | Article having high-flown words about a dog |
| PAPUAN | Old man's play on words about a Pacific native (6) |
| HILFIGERITOUT | Confident words about a designer doing this puzzle? |
| RETRACT | Eat one's words about a religious paper (7) |
| PRIMROSE | Plain words about a border flower (8) |
| VOWELLANGUAGE | Words about a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y? |
| EPITAPH | The last words about a life are written in stone (7) |
