Related Clues:
- Licked boots?
- Bowed and scraped
- Was obsequious
- Fawned
- Flattered servilely
- Mr Sloan entertaining a straight type was sycophantic
- Scraped point, tucked in, took apart and tied knot
- Fawned, bootlicked
- Was obsequious goodbye (not so long) interrupting solitariness?
- With Old Bill entering, bound to have cringed
- Showed deference — or anything due — when following king
- Grovelled to authorities initially, then withered
- Showed reverence to old wife king strangely married
- Upheld agreement to marry, after wife's demonstrated subservience
- Was servile, in a way