Related Clues:

• Length of time a position is held
• As a rule it does not sound all that fine
• Possession for a decade, by the sound of it
• That sounds wet, as a rule
• As a rule it sounds wet
• Mixed around me for 21 across would make it do for a monarch
• Holding this, one might run up in place of driving
• As a rule it sounds not so fine
• As a rule it's about a mixed gin
• Holding this for a decade, by the sound of it
• As a rule this does not sound fine
• Does not sound so fine, as a rule
• Holding that it's true about the headless hen
• As a rule it sounds as if 8 down is bad
• What 5 down had did not sound so fine