Possible Clues:

• In pursuit, pure and simple
• Reformed cheat's decent outcome
• "___ and immaculate in very thought" (Shak.)
• In pursuit of this, by the sound of it, pure and simple
• Decent commander's first dispatch
• Modest
• Sounds like it's engraved without embellishment
• Tea set, unusually without embellishment
• Gone after, by the sound of it, pure and simple
• Expedition goes on cold sober