| TIPSILY | With a slur and a stagger, say |
| ASPERSION | A slur and no praises, perhaps |
| GARRULOUS | Beginning to gossip with a slur -- our drunk's talkative (9) |
| REEL | Leer then go back with a stagger (4) |
| LURCH | Having left church, heads off with a stagger (5) |
| TIE | A fastening such as a bow, dressing-gown cord, four-in-hand, knot, ribbon, shoelace or string; an obligation; a bond; equality in score, aka a draw; or, a slur connecting two musical notes (3) |
| LARCENOUS | Once a slur about a criminal (9) |
| BINOCULARS | Provides the long view to get rid of officer with version of a slur (10) |
| SMEAR | From "butter, fat, grease, ointment", a smudge, splodge, splotch or streak of such substance; or, a slur or slanderous attack (5) |
| AUSTRAL | Worried at a slur from the South (7) |
| SLUMBER | The rest is simply a slur about an honour (6) |
| OFFEND | Hurl a slur at |
| LIGATURE | Notes connected by a slur |
| SLAMMER | Receiving wallop, ignores a slur in prison (7) |
| INSULAR | Parochial smear in a slur (7) |
| LARKSPUR | Delphinium is a slur on park renovation (8) |
| CREPUSCULAR | Dim, heartless sycophant broadcast a slur about copper |
| LURK | Hide in a slur knowledge (4) |
| DEFAME | Cast a slur on (6) |
| URALS | It's not a slur to be captured in the Russian mountains (5) |
