Possible Clues:

• Passing critical remark
• Glancing blow
• Glancing blow on the road, and a hint to the puzzle's circles
• I despise fragmenting walls with dig, incidentally
• Factions erase memory of passing hit
• Teams clean up? That's hardly a terrible blow!
• Lateral blow - blow about 7 fatal date
• I despise wife prepared to make jibe when passing
• Hands clean? That's critical, incidentally
• Passing stick and sponge beneath the wings