Blackmail (Crossword clue)

If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.

• Making an unwarranted demand with menaces
• Exert pressure on someone through threats
• Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation
• Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin
• Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
• Criminal offence of extorting money with menaces or threats of detrimental action
• Any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations
• The extortion of such payment: He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail
• A criminal act of extortion, malicious threatening to do injury to another to compel him to do an act against his will
• A tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage