Related Clues:

• Too bad that a this is a shortage
• Be short of a start for 24 down, by the sound of it
• Be without the sound of the start of 2 down
• A shortage like this? Oh, dear!
• Too bad to get such a shortage!
• Would be such a too bad to have to do without this
• Want servant you rejected to be dismissed
• Paucity
• Need a lot of Indians, say
• Deficiency (of something)
• Absence, deficiency
• Bishop taken off chess player -- one needs to have it
• Deficiency in chess player losing first piece (bishop)
• Want servant to get the old west-facing shed
• Have need of