Possible Clues:

• One swallowed by watery grave
• Rising anger in Parisian coppers is no laughing matter
• So to rise in confusion round us must not be taken lightly
• One buried in watery grave
• Sober issue or misrepresentation
• Earnest; vital
• Duran Duran single which preceded Ordinary World
• Important; unsmiling
• Not playing around
• "You can't be ___!"