Possible Clues:

• Bony
• Consisting of bone
• Like bone tissue
• Outsize Asian capital's wanting Liberal made of hard stuff
• Bony old American keeping up empty overseas quarters
• Made of bone
• Bony so-and-so, contorted with use
• So it gets to souse anything so bony
• Dogs, I see, go fussy regularly, having turned to bone
• Bone-like