Possible Clues:

• Staff of authority getting left for first couple's meal
• Eat, though no starter included in held-up Christmas meal
• Meal in Chunnel poor — nothing eaten
• Meal in Spanish city entertaining group of people, not British
• Doddery uncle getting on, eating hospital meal
• Start school dropping every second set of courses
• Coming from South, Noel tours a French church, getting meal
• Meal in Chunnel poor: nothing eaten
• Formal midday meal
• Afternoon affair