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I solved these clues yesterday, and checked today that my answers were right. But I still can't fully understand how clues and answers connect!

1 Place that makes you relax = STEADY ON

2 More awful nitrogen; earth's breaking up = NASTIER

3 Sticks pages together = COUNTRY LIFE

I see what you mean, david!

3. You might live in the "sticks" if you live in the countryside

n = nitrogen
astir = up (as in up out of bed) with e(earth inside)

stead = place
y = you
on ??

Thank you Kirky for nastier. I was taking breaking up as an anagrind.

Sticks is slang for the countryside , as smoke is slang for the city . Country Life is a magazine specialising in high end country property sales (and only ever read in doctors, dentist waiting rooms ) together makes clue flow.