Failings or Defects Crossword Clue

Failings or defects crossword clue. A Daily Mail UK quick crossword puzzle question Today, Tueday, 25 July 2017. 6 letters.

Answer: FAULTS

Life in the regiment, during this campaign, was all the pleasanter for him, because, after his loss to Dolokhov (for which, in spite of all his family’s efforts to console him, he could not forgive himself), he had made up his mind to atone for his fault by serving, not as he had done before, but really well, and by being a perfectly first-rate comrade and officer–in a word, a splendid man altogether, a thing which seemed so difficult out in the world, but so possible in the regiment.

Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him.