Possible Clues:

• Crooked aristocrat caught — one beyond redemption
• Cancel summons seeing upper-class type swallow drug
• Vehicle that is a total wreck
• Destroy (car)
• Crooked gent reported a total loss
• Cancel, a debt perhaps
• Centre-forward to put pen to paper saying switch is something one needs to give up on
• Did I hear you right - from the beginning burn the bondholders' debt?
• Wrecked vehicle
• Give up on what bank is unlikely to do with 1 down