Possible Clues:

• It's a tedious job for fellow flogging writer perhaps
• Clerk to confine drug pedlar
• Jail drug dealer masquerading as clerk
• One dealing with boring paperwork
• Has a tedious job bringing writer and addict together
• One doing routine office work, informally [5]
• Bored clerk shut up dealer
• Fellow secures new help to advancement for clerk in a dull job
• Clerk in high spirits, entertaining new escort
• Drug dealer going after prison clerk