Related Clues:

• Merit, perhaps - severed, like A Head of Murdoch
• One renting a property
• Pupil living in school
• Contractor haggles, seemingly for big reduction
• Renter in a property
• One in residence
• One renting and living with the owner
• There's a bed, we're told, for such a pupil
• One in digs
• Tenant not so keen to give up housing
• Resident pupil
• Residents' circle is unable to secure trophy
• Mysterious paying guest of the Buntings
• Sounds like ecstasy reduced for a tenant
• Long-term paying guest