Possible Clues:

• Excellent American football event – hooter's blown
• First class traveller confined to public transport on retirement
• Splendid monarch in riotous pubs
• Splendid agent aboard coach going north
• New purse, black and brilliant
• European resident admits a wake is awe-inspiring
• Great
• That's just great - member of the European Union admits losing the head with a battering type?
• 'Magnifico!'
• Brilliant material rejected in advance