| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| VICIOUS | Malicious | |
| MEAN | Malicious | |
| CATTY | Malicious | |
| ARSON | Malicious fire-setting | |
| SCANDAL | Malicious talk | |
| ASPERSIONS | Malicious remarks | |
| BACKBITING | Malicious talk | |
| GOBLIN | Malicious sprite | |
| VENOMOUS | Malicious, spiteful | |
| VIPEROUS | Malicious, spiteful | |
| HOAX | Malicious deception | |
| VANDAL | Malicious destroyer | |
| SABOTEUR | Malicious destroyer | |
| SHREW | Wicked; malicious. | |
| ATTRY | Poisonous; malignant; malicious. | |
| GOSSIP | Idle or malicious chat | |
| CANTANKEROUS | Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. | |
| CURST | Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling. | |
| SERPENT | Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person. | |
| SPITE | Spit on last prize with malicious ill-will | |
| VENOM | Five saw bad omen as malicious spite | |
| SPITEFULLY | Is pet injured? Absolutely, in a malicious way | |
| LIBEL | The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication. | |
| DESPITE | Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. | |
| SPLENETIC | Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. | |