Possible Clues:

• Heading off, hobbled with little energy — cramp?
• Stand in the way
• Interfere with
• Obstructed
• Some claim pedestrians get in the way
• I'm deep in bother in block
• Block rogue editor and be without book
• Slim pedestrian carrying hamper
• Foreign politician meeting writer that is outside bar
• One foreign politician and journalist found at English bar