Possible Clues:

• Word formed from first letters of other words
• Word made form first letters of other words
• First letters from a friend on Malta
• Am ringing friend in CID?
• A word initially coined by a pal, Mike
• During the morning your pal gets the letters for this
• eg RADA
• Mar cony (anag)
• American ally within NATO, for example
• A familiar Frenchman in Unesco, maybe