Possible Clues:

• We're told small chicken perhaps is more affordable
• More reasonable
• Rejoice about return of relative, though not so dear
• Happiness about a penny less in cost
• Less
• Increasingly tawdry stunt involving ambassador
• Not as high
• Chap arrested in jape, causing less damage
• The man's caught in a questionable act, getting sleazier
• More vulgar, one impersonating a revolutionary?