Possible Clues:

• Questioning former Northern Irish police's mounting debts
• Inquisitive writer quits destitute for Conservative
• Odd evidence people can’t settle yet for dogs?
• Eager to learn; strange
• Peculiar scoundrel with admissions of debt
• Asking questions, seeing scoundrels covering evidence of debt
• Like a fictional monkey
• Odd bits of cash under rug promise onset of saving
• Wanting to know scoundrel's keeping promise
• Scoundrel promises to pay? That's odd