Possible Clues:

• Shell carrier sounding stretched on French river
• Land turtle
• Proverbially slow-moving creature – perhaps I rest, too
• Mobile home owner?
• Turtle-like reptile
• Tories to reform: one’s slow to move!
• Animal turning to Tories
• Slow mover prepared risotto close to stove
• Reptile in store -- it desperately gulps oxygen
• Totally non-aquatic turtle