Possible Clues:

• Despair in record fellows finally kept about these times
• Butcher introduces game for bar?
• Dejection from shoddy gear yours truly gained in cost reduction
• That which disheartens
• Record how old we are � intended, we hear, as deterrent
• Process of making someone lose confidence
• Persuasion (against an action)
• Deduction about storm over Middle East causing despondency
• A deterrent
• Record how old we are -- that's intended, we hear, to create gloom