Possible Clues:

• Putting gloss on news by a companion, one of the Greens
• Canny source of strength for the pipe-smoking sailor
• Go rapidly round a church plant
• Popeye's pick-me-up
• Chaps foolishly swallowing hot vegetable
• Leaves a church after deliberate slanting of views
• Chap in ground after sandwich initially and green stuff?
• À la Florentine green
• It provides iron for chaps in trouble
• You get so green in among the chaps