Possible Clues:

• Not broadly direct, by the sound of it
• -- -laced (prudish)
• I start to have this sort of a jacket if I'm not all so sane
• Passage direct, we�re told
• Waterway named for Bering
• Narrow part said to be in line
• Bering, for one
• Route between continents
• A narrow passage of water connecting two seas
• Narrow stretch of water