Possible Clues:

• If it's laid in the pub, that's asking for it by this
• Might one ask to stand around the horse?
• Being laid in 27 across, being poor
• One pleading desperately for operatic title role
• A bit of breakfast, pub sandwiches, for the poor bloke
• One who asks for money for what may be Scotch in pub
• Not a chooser, they say
• Might this be the one to ask for it to be laid in the pub?
• One with no choice?
• Exhaust resources of 24 in a saloon