Related Clues:

• 'Indulgent, easy (7)'
• Not severe in punishing
• 'Soft, sensitive offer? (6)'
• It's never hard to offer to go behind an engine
• One may get worried about 'er because she's so beastly long
• Strictly speaking, it's not let around nine
• This may be a firm offer, but it's not a hard one
• Let it be about 15 across, but not strictly speaking
• You'll get nothing tough off 'er
• Marry at a midshipman?
• Offer to get the ruddy meshes up
• No trouble to be a midshipman in so novel a way
• One might not strictly speaking allow this to be about nine
• What a soft sort of an offer!
• That's not a tough sort of an offer