Related Clues:
- Prodigal was once religious, briefly
- Wife alters misbehaving spendthrift
- Good-for-nothing person
- Profligate used to be lieutenant elevated over engineers
- Loser turned on author with resentment, initially
- Someone unable to comprehend an erroneous description of Pandora's box?
- One with little prospect of success
- Failure of one dramatic work, then another shortly
- One not expected to succeed
- Something even less use than Pandora's box?
- Straw breaking camel's back, doubly profligate
- Worthless person
- One with poor prospects, having some degeneration? Oh, operate!
- Spendthrift, not initially watchful, observed rising
- Drama, musical one, not a failure