Related Clues:

• Thackeray's traveller encountered on the beach
• 18 of 38 roulette numbers
• Rids of roughness, in a way
• Makes uniform
• Rugby competition doesn't start with these odds
• When there is as much chance of winning as there is of losing
• Smooths feature of desert
• 50-50 odds
• Two can go into them with nothing remaining
• The Goodwin - -
• Improbable odds?
• Some beaches and shores?
• Quits when rugby game doesn't start
• Odds!
• And the ship skirts the shore