Possible Clues:

• Give reasons why former student is in agony
• Make understandable
• Account previously clear
• Resolve to be no longer unattractive
• If it was formerly clear of mountains, is that what makes it clear?
• Make intelligible and account for
• Previous partner wasn't good-looking - that will be the reason
• Too old to look at the river, by the sound of it
• Show the whys and wherefores
• Does this tell you why this was formerly so flat?