Related Clues:

• Having no smell
• No good following your nose to find how broke you are at last
• Your nose won't tell you that the South is absolutely broke
• The South has got no money at all - not the smell of it
• Is the South not stinking well bankrupt
• The South without any money - and without 20 across either
• Seems the South has no smell of money - it's quite broke
• By the sound of it, not so much dismissed as having nothing for the nose
• There's not a whiff of the South being absolutely broke
• The South is absolutely broke with absolutely nothing up its nose
• Did, by the sound of it, dispatch so little without 30 across
• By the sound of it, one knows to get nothing from this South that's broke
• Perhaps its lack of 11 across has one broke at last
• If it's not smelly, don't dispatch so much
• Not providing bouquet as stingy Valentine is said to have done