Related Clues:

• In stock at pharmacy but not really necessary?
• Able to be done without
• That can be got rid of
• Not required to use up first victim we hear
• Without power, conclude one's clever but not important
• Easily abandoned
• Can do without former partner, as writer and director up to the job
• Easily sacrificed
• Able to be sacrificed
• Old writer, expert the French regarded as not worth keeping on
• Former writer and director up to the job producing Throwaway
• Writing item in Echo & Times, tinker half-heartedly -- it's throwaway