Related Clues:

• Criticism which goes over actors’ heads?
• A scolding
• Verbal outpouring, to the listener
• Cover for house perhaps taken after agent gets a telling-off
• Reprimand on evidence
• Probably more than you wanted to hear
• Lengthy reprimand, so to speak
• Brown delivery?
• Afraid to ignore initial reprimand
• Noble robes of ermine, perhaps, but right denied for wigging
• Professor's address
• Instructive talk and reprimand
• Talk from the French priest about origin of temptation
• In talk, entice to accept shocking treatment
• Rebuke agent over building's cover