Related Clues:

• Some hard stuff leading journalist finished
• Made an intervention to put Bill away? That's shot down!
• Didn't allow to pass, as a bill
• Rejected, like a bill
• Refused to endorse one of those checking out great Dane around Elsinore primarily and that's key
• Caledonian revolutionary had to be frustrated
• Blocked (a motion)
• Ruined – by whisky?