Related Clues:

• Separate letter that may have French accent, acute or grave
• Small woman about to get tough
• Entire tax too ridiculous, outrageously high
• Strict clergyman turns up in diocese
• Domineering sons jabbing schoolfellow?
• Like subarctic winters
• Domineering on the job
• Extremely harsh
• Given to micromanaging
• 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