Next of kin perhaps snared in Madrid will be back

• Most warm, in a way
• Least remote
• Handiest resolute knight sent to the front
• Best, as an estimate
• Supremely neighboring
• Moving north in earnest to be as close as possible
• Most warm, so to speak
• Requiring the least driving
• Most imminent — most mean

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Near \Near\, a. [Compar. Nearer ; superl. Nearest .] [See Near , adv.] Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh. ``As one near death.'' --Shak. He served great Hector, and was ever near, ...