Possible Clues:

• Deficit arising from brief season on Broadway?
• Want a little snow?
• Deficit resulting from one kind of movie season in US
• Not quite enough money for a brief trip
• Financial problem posed by brief season
• Deficiency in squat, leading to collapse
• Deficit of something required
• Lack forerunner of lengthy winter in New York?
• Brief trip leading to deficit
• Unexpectedly autumn leads to deficit