Possible Clues:

• Process of reduction in capital growth
• Barber's specialty
• Barber's job
• Trim dilapidated chair with partial cut
• Helmet worn by Irish copper -- style!
• Husband's manner stung? That's dis­tressing?
• In which clip round the ear might be administered?
• In which clip round the ear might be necessary?
• Sweeney Todd work, contentious musical, censored
• Distressing event?