Possible Clues:

• Drier across river? That's a scoop
• Plaster worker
• Tool drier, last of water absorbed
• Absorbent cloth wrapping builder's last tool
• Tool needed to put a telephone line in
• Drier around river bed worker
• A little one in spades for Spurs at last
• Small garden hand-tool
• Just one spade. Let it get back about the trouble
• How one might dig a little with a bit of your spur at last