Possible Clues:

• Reached reduced frequency, zero up till now
• Until now other resort's linked to strike
• So far their host, with no spades, lost
• Before you strike the other out
• M ale with right to strike first, until now
• The way it might strike her to this up to now
• Till now, struck '7' differently
• Previously having run it hot for her to get into
• Heretofore (8
• ... make her submit? So far...