Possible Clues:

• Strictly speaking, the alternative to being at the wheel, by the soiund of it (7)
• Wind English find harsh
• Strictly speaking, that's you and me in a tree in bits
• Abstemious and grave
• Strictly speaking, the alternative to take the wheel, by the sound of it
• Unbending
• It's grave for us in a tree that's been chopped up
• Gold volume discovered in grave
• Severe wind from the south and east
• Possibly a Surete stiff?