Related Clues:

• Authoritarian Irish novelist? Sounds like him
• Down-to-earth hearing perhaps after November in middle of day
• Grim film you and I should leave
• Resistant to compromise
• Gangster nearly covers back
• Ruling with an iron fist
• Unlikely to crack a smile
• Some consternation is strict
• Back in the water?
• Like a parental lecture
• "City Slickers" co-star
• Second bird's tail
• Namesake of NYU's business school
• Quarterdeck setting
• Forbidding in aspect