Possible Clues:

• 'Cute, perhaps, strictly speaking (6)'
• 'Cut the East off, strictly speaking (6)'
• 'See about the priest up here, strictly speaking (6)'
• Always strictly on the inside
• Cut the East off at last - it's always inside
• Strict member of the clergy turned up in diocese
• Very bad
• Strict or stark
• Hard to endure cut close to bone
• Arduous