Related Clues:

• Inadequate
• Not even fair
• Unacceptable
• Hardscrabble
• Very out-of-pocket
• Tamed, as a horse
• Like many scholarship recipients
• Like church mice
• Devoid of dinero
• If it ain't this, don't fix it
• Far from flush
• Dirt-poor
• Deserving an F, perhaps
• Word substituted FOR the last word of 53-Across
• Third-rate