Related Clues

• Duel makeup
• Ultimate in pretentiousness, crossword setter's art, the finesse of a swashbuckler
• Solver's beginning to face setter's linguistic tricks in a duel?
• Use of weapons in second part of clue?
• Battling with foremost of setters and their art
• Second double entendre, perhaps, suggests going for a slash?
• Point to puns, like fencing
• Fencing - 's my sport?
• Fencing spread out round notice
• Second's repartee in lively argument
• Verbal sparring
• Art of fencing, and a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues