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Would appreciate help with the following, please: 14 ac - Dealer's henchman preferring pound to note, and 24 ac - VIP's paltry payment? I think the answers are retailer and sixpence, but can't parse them.

Hi Bassett,
retai(n)er => retai(l)er
Split VIP into VI P

Thanks for your help, Ginge.

24a "VIP's paltry payment?" (8)

?I?P?N?E looks like DISPENCE or DISPENSE?

Any help much appreciated

Sixpence, payment. VI, six, P, pence.

Thanks malone; I was on the wrong track

Bassett, hinge, gooner, Malone

I got sixpence in the end but thought tuppence was the classic paltry payment. 'I couldn't care tuppence..'
Perhaps a clue with 'ram' mentioned?!

Tuppenny-halfpenny would be too long for 'The Times', if I've spelt it right, but we have some apostrophe lovers here who would approve of tuppenny-ha'penny, just fitting.

ha'p'orth is another version which I probably haven't got right.