Possible Clues:

• Uncivil, brief film
• Missing money
• Not quite able to pay
• Electrically, attempt to get round resistance?
• and 15 across. Such arrivals are brief to a fault
• Cause to blow a fuse, perhaps, being uncivil
• Needing money
• It's not for long one is lacking money
• Description of 7 brutally forthright? Alas, yes!
• Lacking a quorum