Possible Clues:

• Stop work so as to put your name to it again, by the look of it
• Turn over a note to autograph
• One way to avoid being fired
• Purveyor helping mice maimed by farmer's wife?
• Concerned with token yield
• Military personnel authorise surrender
• Head of State during rule to abdicate
• Initial document again and quit
• Quit, as a job
• Go or stay with the team?