Possible Clues:

• Strictly speaking, see about the rev up
• Always in the middle, strictly speaking
• Cute, perhaps, in the strict sense
• Desperate, permanently in Kent
• Strictly speaking, this will enable one to see about getting the priest up here
• Strict and unbending
• Hard to see the minister retiring through it
• See about getting the priest up to being strict
• Strictly speaking, always inside (6)
• Weather word