Possible Clues:

• Voting nay
• '00 Steely Dan album "Two ___ Nature"
• V gives victory, in a way
• Not for finding stove – in the way
• V — a sign that’s rude in vacuous affront
• Opposed to a way to secure advantage
• V. good to be protected by a new saint
• Once more, good guy is opposed
• A giant's unsettled? That's touching!
• Returns in a tragedy's leading part — touching