Possible Clues:

• Avoidance
• Avoidance of European clash we organised
• Avoidance of champ inspired by eastern girl
• Deliberate avoidance upset Welsh ace
• Ruminate, getting stuck into ales, perhaps — avoidance behaviour?
• Avoiding training with Chelsea
• Escape half-cut hack with almost total abstinence
• Shunning leech was unusual
• Giving a miss a quid, going through sale jumble
• Abstention called for in church. (Ales we mixed outside.)