Related Clues:

• Invites; enquires
• Puts a question to initiate all scientific knowledge somehow
• Demands (something of someone)
• Puts a query
• Begs fool to entertain king
• Requests time off work
• Behind walls king is curious
• ___ for it (invites trouble)
• Bargaining topics
• Pleads, e.g
• Begs for some task - some useful task
• Almost delight in requests
• Excuses, pretexts
• Urgent entreaties
• Questions? Labour's ignoring Tory leader