Related Clues:

• Aspersion on the staff, perhaps
• Slight defect in speech?
• But it's no aspersion on the score
• Thing is what you can do on stage with such an impediment
• Speech problem in school is problematical
• AI language, high-level -- though is so influenced by having it!
• Lap up nearly all and sound drunk
• A slight sign of drinking too much?
• Malformed sound is evident in recording
• What's produced by part of mouth with end misplaced?
• Disparage endless noise when drinking
• Impediment getting mouth around sibilant?
• A slight mark on the music
• Slight indistinctness of speech
• Speech defect getting mouth around sibilant