Possible Clues:

• Give official permission to
• Empower
• Empower, permit
• Sanction, empower
• Allow writer one’s eraser at the start
• Puts pen to paper for one small English permit
• Sounds as if this may give permision for the writer to get up
• Give power to or sanction
• Writer is eager at first for commission
• Allow one to be included in the organised share-out