Possible Clues:

• In Paris a motorboat started by girl departs without a crew
• Without a crew, dispirited
• Needing no crew
• Not requiring staff
• Remote-controlled, perhaps
• German writer embraced by French one finally squeezed without hands
• No one at The Wheel named nun on the run
• Not requiring a crew or staff
• A foreign director welcomes woman without staff
• With no crew