Related Clues:

• Less sweet, as wine
• Rider thrown off maiden
• Receiving less rainfall
• More withered veterans initially dropped off by motorist
• Like southern Israel vis-à-vis northern Israel
• More deadpan, as humor
• Rider crashing more in need of drink?
• Airdrie resident's more in need of liquid refreshment
• Bringing up central part of clause more formal
• Less rainy, as a climate
• Martini comparative
• Brut, compared to sec
• Like desert climates, comparatively
• Habitual tumbler, jockey gets third knocking to head
• Like prunes vis-à-vis plums