Possible Clues:

• Cross Tory oddly reluctant
• Oblique note about illegal party goers?
• Cross states in endless trek
• Technique backward-looking with bit of poetry? Makes one cross
• Note about those at wild party makes one cross
• Cross Republican states in extremes of temperature
• Cross as partygoers seen in outskirts of Tonbridge
• Come across party animals filling Tenerife on vacation
• Oblique art about poetry
• Turkey reluctant -- and cross