Possible Clues:

• Have a desire
• Desire (to pull this bone?)
• So the R.A. might want to have it less well done
• Fountain request?
• It's thought to be merry with a bone like this
• Express desire
• The sort of bone that's thought - and want - to be merry
• Prelim to bone-breaking?
• It's granted by a genie, in myth
• Art of Noise single that featured Tom Jones