Possible Clues:

• Don amuses, clowning about
• Take it for granted that some sounding will be made in choppy sea
• Take as true or take for granted
• Simply expect a start to spring with the return of birds
• Take, as a position
• Take or put on
• A student's first problem meeting English don
• Take on as total energy
• One may take it that this could be 23 down in the sea
• Take it as read that there's money in the sea