Possible Clues:

• Role played by a sufferer, maybe
• Joan of Arc, for instance
• Victim
• Saint, often
• One who gives his life for a cause
• Sacrificial sort
• So to spoil the broken try was worth more than a half-crown
• One killed for faith
• To start to turn the top of 10 across might have got one to try to have been worth more than half a crown
• One suffering for beliefs