Answer: SWORDPLAY
The answer SWORDPLAY has 30 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- News has spread about Zorro's skill
- Art of fencing, and a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues
- Fencing turning out to carry message
- Promise to put in wide and flat fencing
- Repartee in Brand?
- Duel makeup
- Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!
- Activity of fencing
- Second double entendre, perhaps, suggests going for a slash?
- ... a dueling contest with a lot of clever dialogue?