Related Clues:

• Pretend not to notice, and a hint to this puzzle’s circled words
• Poet runs away over humiliation
• Slight advance traps knight
• Stop cakes turning
• Rebuff press employee round back of inn
• Ignore pointedly
• Rudely rebuff
• Say, ''No, I don't remember meeting you''
• Humiliating rebuff
• Rebuff, ignore
• Let it slide
• *Keep?
• Socially slight
• Scornfully reject cakes that are sent back
• Rebuff or spurn