Possible Clues:

• Rooms landlady made vacant in no uncertain manner
• One way to deny it is to take plane over American city with tenor
• One way to deny something
• Showing no emotion as muscle gets caught in zip
• Uncompromisingly (refuse)
• Unequivocally
• Absolutely evenly
• Absolutely
• Be very critical of accepting odd bits of talk, brooking no argument
• (Deny) without qualification