Answer: SMEARS
SMEARS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 58 times.
Referring Clues:
- Blurs
- Spreads, as cream cheese
- Slanders
- Sullies
- Uses finger paints, say
- Drags through the mud
- Slide preparations
- Speaks ill of
- Dirty tricks on the campaign trail
- Artists' boo-boos
- Dirty attacks
- Defames
- Ruins one's reputation
- Slings mud at
- Applies, as finger paint
- Campaign tactics
- Blurs by rubbing
- Mascara mishaps
- Maybelline mishaps
- Bad-mouths
- Some dirty politics
- Finger-paints, e.g.
- Campaign strategies
- Mascara stains
- Smudges
- Paint stains
- Mirror marrers
- Lipstick slips
- Vilifies politically
- Fingerpaints
- Libels
- Works with finger paints
- Campaign attacks
- Window washer's concern
- Makeup mishaps
- Mascara messes
- Slaps on, as jelly
- Cheap campaign tactics
- False accusations
- Vilifies jam?
- Lipstick messes
- Lipstick mishaps
- Badmouths
- Puts jam on bread
- Makeup problems
- Campaign ugliness
- Calligraphy problems
- Eyeliner mishaps
- Slings mud at, so to speak
- Mudslingers' attacks
- Dirty campaigners' attacks
- Inky goofs
- Campaign nastiness
- Slings mud at, in a campaign
- Spreads sloppily
- Colors outside the lines?
- Features of a dirty campaign
- Negative campaign attacks
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 16, 2024
- New York Times - March 07, 2024
- New York Times - January 20, 2024
- USA Today - December 19, 2023
- New York Times - October 03, 2023
- USA Today - May 08, 2023
- Netword - June 03, 2020
- LA Times - May 05, 2019
- Netword - April 23, 2019
- LA Times - January 30, 2019
- USA Today - October 10, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 21, 2018
- USA Today - May 10, 2018
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 10, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 19, 2018
- USA Today - November 28, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 24, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - October 01, 2017
- Universal - September 20, 2017
- LA Times - August 05, 2017
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