Possible Clues:

• How ex, perhaps, may be taken as a matter of course
• Consumed by spirit of revenge, laid into opponents
• It's taken in at school, we hear
• Moth-__: worn out
• Perhaps ex, as a matter of course
• Perhaps one's ex has had consumption
• Dined in college, it's said
• Got to school, say
• Taken as a matter of course, being perhaps ex (5)
• Worried by each card