Possible Clues:

• Almost bankrupt craft shop spared collapse
• Short dominatrix may have done this
• Tied up foreign capital? Alternatively, take hard currency out of available money!
• Broke and beaten, professionally
• Broke with 25 across supporting 24 down
• Bust flogged to get funds
• Shoppers with a card start to feel distressed, going round tense and broke
• Performed hip-hop in street raising money to offer poor
• Having financial trouble, like a bra manufacturer?