Possible Clues:

• Nothing on the Dane around Little Kay
• Writhed with no top on, nor anything else
• Stark negative response of Scots to King Edward
• Squeezed by snake, died defenceless
• 'Bear, perhaps, may get Ken and his Da (5)'
• In one's natural state
• In the end one might shoot with it, but only barely
• Barely visible
• Word with "truth" or "ambition"
• Exposed, a king in retreat heading west