| SLUMBER | The rest is simply a slur about an honour (7) |
| USTINOV | "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious" (Peter ____) |
| AUSTRAL | Worried at a slur from the South (7) |
| CRUDELY | It's simply a vineyard down by a cathedral (7) |
| SLAMMER | Receiving wallop, ignores a slur in prison (7) |
| INSULAR | Parochial smear in a slur (7) |
| TIPSILY | With a slur and a stagger, say |
| SUSTAIN | Slur about Guardian Bear (7) |
| CULROSS | Starts to change opinion with slurs about Fife village (7) |
| LARCENOUS | Once a slur about a criminal (9) |
| CREPUSCULAR | Dim, heartless sycophant broadcast a slur about copper |
| AKAN | It's a lake in Japan that shares a name with a group of languages in Africa. (Which is simply a coincidence.) |
| LURCHERS | The dogs" irrational slur about an actress (8) |
| CONTRADICTIONINTERMS | "I maintain that the phrase, a 'long poem' is simply a flat ____" (Edgar Allan Poe) |
| OXYGENBARS | Nightspots where the attraction is simply a gas |
| TIRADE | Wild rhetoric is simply a line in business (6) |
| 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) |
| MERLIN | He's simply a wizard but is given the bird (6) |
| SHETLANDER | Slur about the wild person from 17 |
| PLURALISM | A limp slur about multi-group system (9) |
