Possible Clues:

• Indecently intimate around cowboy, perhaps
• Mean surrounding chap with lasso, possibly without justification
• Wrongly suggest holding unfinished story back
• In an unseemly manner
• 'The sprite has rope on the miniature railway, but not the right way (10)'
• Prime ploy devised to detain King in unseemly fashion
• Hint about short account being written up wrongly
• Suggest covering binder in an unsuitable way
• Suggest a rodeo competitor has entered wrongfully
• Wrongly suggest introducing capital punishment, meeting resistance