Possible Clues:

• Close second, after one in Rhône city
• Stuffy Earl is a touch superior in a funny sort of way
• A pound in rises negotiated - or close
• Close shaven, but not hard!
• How stuffy to have no-one to come after, by the sound of it
• Sails about to flap? There's not a breath of wind
• Being so stuffy, one has no-one to follow one by sound
• Like the moon's atmosphere, pretty much
• Sounds as if having no son makes one so stuffy
• Serials can be really stuffy