Related Clues:

• Mother-to-be dismisses here for foundation
• Given a directive, incorporating worst-case scenario?
• The last in a series of Countdown
• In depression, a dire state
• Under part
• A short dress, mother, to say the least!
• Pen a dirge conveying deep despair
• MND weaver
• It's the depths when a director conceals it!
• 'The subterranean dark / Has crossed the -' (A. E. Housman)
• Unknown Scandinavian coin rejected - its value?
• Saw British returning to base
• Part of Rouen - a dirty low point
• 'I mean by a '- vocabulary' one in which no word can be defined in terms of the others' (Bertrand Russell)
• In short, William Golding's seamen's argot