Possible Clues:

• Calm, sit-down encounters that usually don't involve, say, pythons and tarantulas--unless you're talking to 120 Across (whose name, by the way, is an anagram of this answer)
• Football team's about to struggle with questions after final whistle?
• Put in grave opinions during TV investigations
• Bury opinions from meetings with biographer
• Questions in verse - wit is in order