Possible Clues:

• Taxi-meter fiddled, which may lead to penalties
• In jury for this in the end
• Extension of deadline that may avoid penalties
• With this, centre makes a short distance in final minutes
• What may be needed to achieve result from faulty taximeter
• Minor actor takes issue over play's extension
• In which pairs of drawers get longer
• Deadlock breaker
• Rise from the dead? That often happens when injury isn't decisive!
• Taximeter could show several more minutes