Related Clues:

• Some dull academic putting outsiders off -- a bit of a brain
• Support second article, ignoring first
• Force in London's returned to make arrest
• Stop a flow
• Upward part of a plant
• Earring support
• Asparagus, mostly
• Bloom supporter
• Half-note feature
• Look obviously below ear, primarily, for this
• Stop - this is a hold up!
• Inner portion of an organ or tissue
• Restrain Science, Technology and English masters initially
• Stalk, stop
• Half of them under way? Stop!