Possible Clues:

• Handle an old wit, the last to be promoted
• Oddly rejected, oddly evil, we will head north and flourish
• Exercise, as influence
• I go into join exercise
• Bond keeps one for exercise
• India participating in joint exercise
• Exert, as influence or power
• Hold and use Bond outside institute
• Savage conserves energy to use as a weapon
• Exert (power)