Possible Clues:

• It's questionable if a hundred such would hold water
• Requests permission
• Afer a century they might get questionably tubby
• Implores
• Inquires (4)
• It's questionable if this would be things to do after tea
• One questions how tubby they would get by the hundred
• A thousand such might cover the faces of it
• The beginnings of 8 across would become burdensome after tea
• It's questionable if one might have jobs to do after tea