Possible Clues:

• Remark that a spy learnt to decipher
• Agreeable remark made by Liberal surrounded by the common people
• Comment on a nice case of rivalry
• Slightly amusing remark from learner in class
• Sally requests a new sample
• Subsistence workers to receive pound - is that a joke?
• Nearly past appalling joke
• Funny how one may get fifty into 2 down
• Comment about ales going off in the larder
• Tiniest amount briefly stored in cupboard for a joke