| Expiring |
Puzzler Backwords |
08 Sep 2025 |
| Longing (to know) |
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| Running low on batteries |
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| Decreasing characters of Maddy in Guru (5) |
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| Weakening, yet somewhat steadying? (5) |
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| Very keen to be displaying the exterior (5) |
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| Fading melody in gardening section |
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| Expiring |
Puzzler Backwords |
11 Apr 2025 |
| Becoming obsolete, old customs are ... |
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| On the way out, Indy's recycled? Good (5) |
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| Dwindling |
The Telegraph Plusword |
13 Mar 2025 |
| Weakening, needing a bit of steadying (5) |
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| Can't wait to get colouring (5) |
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| Coming to the end of life (5) |
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| What makes many video game players rage-quit |
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| Pining, we hear, to be changing colour (5) |
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| Fading |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Oct 2024 |
| They say colouring's on the way out |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Oct 2024 |
| Longing to (5) |
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| Longing to refurbish - dingy (5) |
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| PlusWord No 861 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
29 Sep 2024 |
| The time when something ends (5) |
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| Like a phone with almost no battery power |
Universal |
20 Sep 2024 |
| Becoming extinct, out |
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| Losing life (5) |
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| Perishing |
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| Gradually ceasing |
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| Fading away |
Commuter |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Fading and dingy, perhaps (5) |
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| Losing battery power |
Commuter |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Fading, as embers |
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| Fading, needs dyeing, we hear (5) |
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| Fading out |
The Telegraph Mini |
12 May 2024 |
| At death's door |
Puzzler Backwords |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Life fading away |
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| Fading and dingy, thrown out |
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| End of life |
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| End of life (5) |
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| Going out, as embers |
New York Times |
23 Jan 2024 |
| 'Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, ___', (carol) (5) |
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| Longing to get mortal might one say? |
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| Super eager (to) |
Universal |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Near to death |
The Times Concise |
11 Jun 2022 |
| What comes in handy in golfing final |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Nov 2021 |
| "He was ___ to eat Thanksgiving dessert" (very eager) |
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| Expiring |
Canadiana |
10 May 2021 |
| 'OMG SO FUNNY!' |
USA Today |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Coming to an end |
The Times Concise |
08 Oct 2020 |
| Close to death |
The Times Concise |
29 Aug 2020 |
| Flopping at a comedy club |
LA Times Daily |
10 Aug 2020 |
| Flopping at a comedy club |
The Washington Post |
10 Aug 2020 |
| Running out of steam |
Premier Sunday |
17 May 2020 |
| Bombing, as a comic |
Family Time |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Like a battery soon to be thrown away |
Family Time |
16 Mar 2020 |
| They say colouring's on the way out |
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| Like a phone down to 1% |
New York Times |
03 Jul 2019 |
| "___ Light," zombie survival game developed by Techland in 2015 |
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| Like embers |
The Washington Post |
17 May 2019 |
| Like embers |
LA Times Daily |
17 May 2019 |
| Laughing nonstop, so to speak |
The Washington Post Sunday |
27 Jan 2019 |
| Hardly alive |
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| Passing away |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jan 2019 |
| Like embers |
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| Like a phone down to 1% |
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| Fading, as a fire |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Aug 2018 |
| Going down hard at a comedy club |
Universal |
17 May 2017 |
| Going down hard at a comedy club |
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| Subsiding (with "down") |
Family Time |
29 Feb 2016 |
| Moribund |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Jan 2016 |
| Bombing, as a comic |
Universal |
30 Oct 2015 |
| Flopping at a comedy club |
Universal |
09 Sep 2015 |
| Colouring report for those living on borrowed time perhaps |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Jul 2015 |
| Sound of bell, around end of day, becoming quieter |
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| Flopping at a comedy club |
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| Bombing, as a comic |
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| Fading away |
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| Failing to get laughs and forgetting lines not right |
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| Declining and declining, with expert backing out |
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| Bombing, on stage |
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| Stand-up comic's fear |
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| Eager |
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| Flopping on stage |
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| Subsiding (with "down") |
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| Flopping, as a business |
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| Bombing, as a comedian |
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| Performing very badly, as a comedian |
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| Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before ___" |
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| Flopping at a comedy club |
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| Losing power |
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| See 6-Across |
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| Going out, as a fire |
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| Fizzling out |
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| Fizzling out |
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| Becoming extinct, with "out" |
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| Flopping on a comedy gig |
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| Faulkner's "As I Lay ___" |
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| Desiring greatly, with "for" |
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| Desiring greatly, with "for" |
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| Obsolescent |
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| About to go out |
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| Like a graying ember |
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| About to go out |
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| Like a graying ember |
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| Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before ___" |
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| Failing on the stage |
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| Bombing on stage |
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| Losing power |
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| Losing power |
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| 'A Kiss Before -- ('91 film)' |
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| Not getting many laughs, as a comedian |
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| Failing on the stage |
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| On the way out |
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| About to conk out |
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| Conking out |
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| Declining, as embers |
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| Fading out |
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| Fading |
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| Bombing, as a comic |
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| Eager |
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| Declining, as a fire |
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| Subsiding, with "down" |
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| "I am ___, Egypt . . . ": Shak. |
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| " . . . despised and ___ king": Shelley |
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| "I am ___, Egypt . . . " |
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| ___ swan |
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| Drawing to a close. |
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| "___ is for fools. Amateurs." |
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