Possible Clues:

• Menu course
• Could be a fool, with hair standing on end
• Around the South it's so dry, but so sweet
• Something to save room for
• Sweet to be too dry around the South
• Something a loser may skip
• What might secure the bucks, ship bound for Madeira?
• Leave, by the sound of it, one of 25 down
• Of course it's usually last
• Locked up, of course