Possible Clues:

• Blank space around a page
• Mum bent ring's edge
• Rubber gloves idiot initially kept in chap's room
• Area for note-taking
• Good drive up, taking me to northern border
• Extent of a sports win
• Wiggle room
• Border; leeway
• Place to make a note of profit
• Frenchman finds love in Gaeltacht, falling head over heels coming back north of the border