Related Clues:

• The last thing you'd be doing would be making this just a shade different, by the sound of it
• Passing on the shade of a change, by the sound of it
• Quite worn out when the money has gone
• When your money's gone you're exhausted
• Nothing save this was done and done for
• Shut up in the street till one is exhausted
• How the money was paid for the writer in the street
• Too exhausted to write in the street what's paid
• Fired, as a cartridge
• Too pooped to pop
• Keen to have one foot in the grave?
• Author lying in the street, exhausted
• Passed time as a writer in a way
• Paid out — finished
• Near to death