Related Clues:

• Old boy in tight trio cold as android
• Stiff and mechanical
• Steal in the ears as Dalek's voice?
• Unemotional old boy in trio ruined opening of concert
• Stiff and machinelike
• Herky-jerky, as movements
• Automatic rifle beginning to oddly jerk
• Such repetitive work attracts no living wage
• It's not natural, in a mechanical way, to turn away from contributor
• Like an android
• Deprive of an ear, working automatically
• Like a zombie?
• Just going through the motions, perhaps
• Like the delivery of many a prepared speech
• Essentially rice behind turnip, say, covering starter of beef jerky?