INFLATION
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Nov. 2013
Mike Shenk

The answers to the clues below are victims of inflation.

1. Come to an instant halt
2. Dark loaf
3. NFL play callers
4. Stingy types
5. Description of My Gal
6. What's better than a cure
7. Shave and a haircut cost

Answers:

1. Stop on a quarter
2. Pumperdime bread
3. Half-dollar backs
4. Nickel pinchers
5. Six foot two, eyes of blue
6. A pound of prevention 
7. Three bits