Possible Clues:

• Person involved in trade
• Dealer charged outside church taken in by cops
• A fair amount of starch found in unfinished meal and not the sides produced by vendor
• Store keeper's French sea shanty?
• Season half gone — sing, as one doing business
• Dealer produces small car reduced for church worker
• Tradesman
• Long-haul workers from Manchester somehow getting the last word
• Retail trader
• Nice sea song for fishmonger, perhaps