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Endless slander I attributed to old girls and boys (6)

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I believe the answer is:

alumni

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'to old girls and boys' is the definition.
(graduates of a school or university)

'endless slander i' is the wordplay.
'endless' means to look at the middle letters.
'slander' becomes 'calumny' (synonyms).
The middle of 'calumny' is 'alumn'.
'alumn'+'i'='ALUMNI'

'attributed' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for alumni that I've seen before include "Past pupils, former students" , "Student population once" , "Put too much strain on, as Revenue Commissioners do" , "Old boys and girls" , "Past pupils of the old school" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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