Possible Clues:

• Most unkind
• Most ogreish
• Tightest or most miserly
• Most tight locks save energy close to aqueduct
• Most excellent food one's eaten, nothing wasted
• A home beneath me, most shabby
• The writer with a home as close as possible
• 18 is French and most cruel
• Maximally hostile
• This is enough to make me a home - even a very poor one