Related Clues:

• Disparaging remark comes from yobs lurking
• Endless drink creating garble
• Aspersion on the staff, perhaps
• Slight defect in speech?
• But it's no aspersion on the score
• Lap up nearly all and sound drunk
• A slight sign of drinking too much?
• Disparage endless noise when drinking
• A slight mark on the music
• Slight indistinctness of speech
• Hurtful comment
• Speak thickly
• Stain on one's reputation to talk as if drunk
• Speak like a drunk person
• Conclusions from famous trial you monitor? It's not clear, so to speak