Possible Clues:

• Recluse's reaction, unfortunately, is to squeeze Helen's front ...
• 'E can keep the ship in place with it, all by himself
• Hermit or religious recluse
• A solitary person will have a job to conceal it
• Secure boat properly, say, being solitary
• I, loner, left out, with hard act to follow, possibly
• Recluse finds it in an irksome task
• A new church ceremony installs Oxford’s first hermit
• So as keep it from moving, 'e was all by himself