Possible Clues:

• Less expensive
• Less costly
• A quiet entertainment outside is less expensive
• Festive food cut by a penny — being this?
• Not as dear
• Comparatively despicable man's involved in prank
• A pensioner's first to get in food and drink that's less expensive
• Less extravagant festive fare, cut by a minimal amount
• Not such a dear little chicken, by the sound of it
• Not as costly