Possible Clues:

• Settles on, in a way
• Not the 23 down sort of returns that one chooses
• Sound as if what one does is chews it
• Chooses Nellie's cat as regularly as possible
• So one chooses to put a hundred into steel
• How one chooses to put one hundred in steel
• How one has the choice of about fifty bits of steel
• Appoints through voting system
• Puts into position, in a way
• Chooses to put up with son, changing sides