| Freedom-of-speech limit | 23 |
| Defame in writing | 17 |
| Defame in a way | 15 |
| Defamatory words | 16 |
| Damage a reputation | 19 |
| Cousin of slander | 17 |
| Character assassination in print | 32 |
| Cause of a suit | 15 |
| Bad press? | 10 |
| Defamation suit defendant | 25 |
| One with a reputation to defend | 31 |
| Object of a scurrilous attack, maybe | 36 |
| Defendant, in admiralty law | 27 |
| Defendant in a law case | 23 |
| Defendant in a defamation suit | 30 |
| Some civil defendants | 21 |
| Attorney's specialty | 24 |
| Tabloid publisher's concern | 31 |
| Tabloid publisher's check | 29 |
| Protection against smearing | 27 |
| Protection against slander | 26 |
| Muckraker's concern | 23 |
| Defamation protection | 21 |
| Sullies | 7 |
| Maligns | 7 |
| Defames in print | 16 |
| Smears on paper | 15 |
| Puts down in writing? | 21 |
| Defames in writing | 18 |
| Actionable statements | 21 |
| Slanders in print | 17 |
| Risks a lawsuit, in a way | 25 |
| Puts down in print? | 19 |
| Abuses freedom of the press, perhaps | 36 |
| Book of public records | 22 |
| Records book | 12 |
| Book, to Nero | 13 |
| Book, to Cicero | 15 |
| Like this puzzle's theme, to conservatives? | 47 |
| They're for the ones on the left | 36 |
| Simon Bolivar, e.g. | 19 |
| BolÃvar, notably | 19 |
| Oldest republic in Africa | 25 |
| Africa's oldest republic | 28 |
| Country settled by freed American slaves | 40 |
| Sam Doe's country | 21 |
| Republic founded by American blacks | 35 |
| President Doe's land | 24 |
| Land on the Atlantic | 20 |
| Its flag resembles the U.S. flag but with only one star | 55 |
| Its capital is named for a U.S. president | 41 |
| Its capital is Monrovia | 23 |
| Country with modern Africa's first female head of state | 59 |
| African republic colonized by freed American slaves | 51 |
| Word on a dime | 14 |
| Word on a quarter | 17 |
| _____ Magazine | 14 |
| Lady in a harbor | 16 |
| Bell of note | 12 |
| Symbol on an old quarter | 24 |
| Shore leave | 11 |
| Sailor's shore leave | 24 |
| Revolutionary cause | 19 |
| Patrick Henry word | 18 |
| Miss in a harbor | 16 |
| Lady on U.S. coins | 18 |
| Henry's quest | 17 |
| Henry's goal: 1775 | 22 |
| Henry's desire | 18 |
| Bell opening? (and this puzzle's theme spelled out) | 55 |
| Shout of freedom? | 17 |
| "I'm free!" for example? | 38 |
| 1840s abolitionist group | 24 |
| Sex drive | 9 |
| Psychic energy | 14 |
| Primitive drive | 15 |
| Lusty drive | 11 |
| Id output | 9 |
| Sexual instinct | 15 |
| Important drive in Freudian theory | 34 |
| Id-derived desire | 17 |
| Walt Whitman's "procreant urge" | 45 |
| Walt Whitman's ''procreant urge'' | 53 |
| Sexuality | 9 |
| Psychological drive | 19 |
| Psychic energy, to Freud | 24 |
| Lusty urges | 11 |
| Lustful drive | 13 |
| Lustful desire | 14 |
| Jungian concept | 15 |
| Eros, to Freud | 14 |
| Drive that might result in scoring? | 35 |
| Drive of a kind | 15 |
| Desires derived from the id | 27 |
| Basic drive | 11 |
| A wolf has a strong one | 23 |
| Sign with scales | 16 |
| Zodiac scales | 13 |
| Fall sign | 9 |
| P.I.'s | 10 |