Related Clues:

• Needy, poverty-stricken
• Without money, not a cent
• Needy or unsatisfactory
• 'A friend . . . . . . is a friend indeed'
• It took a crowbar to make it get up in the middle
• You'd want to have this to make a year of the ear
• If you're like this, make for the 14 down - it's smashing!
• is your little brother all right?'E is skint
• Without Penelope one is 12 across
• Having had a smaching time at the apartment, one is skint
• It's hard, up here
• With one's apartment smashed, one is in penury
• We are without poor Penelope, by the sound of it
• It was smashing to be in the red
• Wanting double E there