Related Clues:

• Separate letter that may have French accent, acute or grave
• Small woman about to get tough
• Strict clergyman turns up in diocese
• Like subarctic winters
• Extremely harsh
• Hard always being in a corner
• Demanding cut, a quarter
• Harsh cut by end of empire
• Drastic cut with energy reduced to a minimum
• Formal — unsmiling
• Cut off energy -- that's hard to endure
• Harsh; very plain
• Like some horrid weather
• It's ruthless to cut off energy
• Grave is end, leading to start of eternity?