Possible Clues:

• Cutting small volume covering nameless friar
• Bitter little element cuts one badly
• Cutting about person from country without king
• Scathing about magistrate avoiding extremes
• Biting (wit); burning
• Hardly conciliatory
• Biting, in a manner of speaking, so Da
• One may have soda with it to make the crows sound stuck
• The sound of the crow will stick in the biting sound (7)
• How a cut might make this biting