Related Clues:

• Cold War link
• Crisis phone service
• Emergency phone
• You might call one in a crisis
• Direct channel between top people
• If things became heated, this would give a direct link with the lion
• You need not keep your cool to have a ring on it
• 'Calls for priority on this (3,4)'
• Emergency fixture
• The loin chop that may be used in an emergency
• Emergency connection with erotic verse?
• Emergency telephone's located in 'The Lion'
• Priority service arranged in hotel
• Phone between heads of government
• Important number to call