Related Clues:

• When detective inspector leaves area, it becomes tough
• Authoritarian ploy mostly accepted by revered person
• Not smiling back
• Hard - back
• Strict - forbidding
• Stiff - back - not smiling
• Austere - rigid
• Not allowing laxity
• Severe -- back of boat
• Rigorous - back of boat
• Unyielding — rump
• Ship back?
• Stir about court inflexible with rules
• Uncompromising virtuoso
• Austere part of a ship?