Related Clues:

• Dead on one's feet
• Laid out, as cash
• Paid out money
• Lightened one's wallet
• Used up; exhausted
• Used up, exhausted
• Used all of
• Went on a shopping spree
• Burned-out
• Nasty, nasty authors cut through weed
• Writer, in a way, became drained
• Weary of being told to go around quietly
• Exhausted writer found in the road
• Exhausted swan found in the road
• Employed and paid out wasted author across road