### Clue: Make weak literary tailor back off from scrap at first (8)
### Answer: ENFEEBLE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Make weak
 FEEBLE(Francis, woman's tailor turned soldier in Shakespeare's King Henry IV Part 2) **placed after**(… at first) "end"(scrap;a small bit left at the end after use) **minus its last letter**(back off from …).