Related Clues:

• Unpleasantly serious or unfriendly
• Small bird's back
• Like many disciplinarians
• Authoritarian is back
• "Don't __ my mellow!"
• 'Don't __ my mellow!'
• Unpleasantly stern or rough
• Severe in tone
• Like a serious talking-to
• Harsh way to make money, we hear
• Overly strict
• Uncompromising princess leaves the region
• Like an Arctic winter
• Rhadamanthine
• Hard and rather strict, horribly initially