Answer: PENURIOUS
The answer PENURIOUS has 15 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Unable to pay debts, first write your half off
- Poor writer on novel losing head
- Extremely poor
- Short of brass, alternatively use up iron
- Retired character once among religiously dutiful poor
- Poor writer, the game being up with admissions of debt
- Needy
- Goody-goody holding old character back – that's mean
- Very poor writer omitted chapter heading from novel
- Bust out of prison facing questioning, not caught
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