Possible Clues:

• Type of tax that comes out in the wash
• Scandal sheet filler
• __-cheap: for a song
• Scandal
• Unpaved road's surface, perhaps
• Vacuum's collection
• Sides of triangular pyramid built over topsoil
• Gossip, informally
• Tax for opening 6 down for the most part
• Local nasty gossip dug up by both sides in District Court