Possible Clues:

• One brought back to earth after Sun's character assassination
• Mud-slinging tool traps learner
• Speak ill of topless Lesbian?
• Mud-slinging apprentice jams tool
• False or malicious report
• False and malicious spoken statement
• Libel's counterpart
• Person surrounded by sea, not the first to drag through the mud
• Cast aspersions on
• Malign