Possible Clues:

• Moor yacht -- that was his hobby
• Joker player Ledger
• Shrubby area of open country
• Scrubby vegetation
• '70s British leader
• Ted - - (former PM)
• Wasteland expanse
• How the Moot might get the aspirate warm
• He was in his prime on Morning Cloud
• King abandoning domestic area - for this blasted place?