Possible Clues:

• 'Hi'
• Seems the man will get nothing from the hail
• Routine response to telephone call
• Repeated parrot's word
• How he will get around the hail
• More than a warm, round greeting
• A common greeting
• What a hot round of greeting! (5)
• 1984 #1 hit by Lionel Richie
• ''Hi''