Possible Clues:

• One guilty of slowing down after initially leading in competition
• Criminal rip-off in fashion
• Sinister group stifling publicity -- one may be criminal
• Religious group protects public relations institute from wrongdoer
• Copper recording appeal catches right criminal
• Criminal, say, heads for priest, really intending to enter religious group
• No-good prig in cult — who’s to blame?
• Guilty party's rip-off concealed by religious group
• Eddy's dropped right into shaft below -- who's to blame?
• Criminal copper inflamed about press release