Flopping, as a business
Else clues• ___ is for fools. Amateurs.
• 'A Kiss Before -- ('91 film)'
• About to conk out
• About to go out
• Becoming extinct, with out
• Bombing on stage
• Bombing, as a comedian
• Bombing, as a comic
• Conking out
• Declining, as a fire
• Desiring greatly, with for
• Eager
• Extremely eager
• Fading
• Fading out
• Failing on the stage
• Failing onstage
• Faulkner's As I Lay ___
• Fizzling out
• Flopping at a comedy club
• Flopping on a comedy gig
• Going out, as a fire
• Ira Levin's A Kiss Before ___
• Like a graying ember
• Losing power
• Not getting many laughs, as a comedian
• Obsolescent
• On the way out
• Passing away
• Performing very badly, as a comedian
• Really anxious (to know)
• Subsiding (with down)
• Feel indifferent towards
• Be damned (in the religious sense)
• Suffer spiritual death
• Disappear or come to an end
• Lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer
• To be on base at the end of an inning, of a baseball player
• Languish as with love or desire
• Stop operating or functioning
• Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
• Suffer or face the pain of death
• Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• The time when something ends
• Cut or shape with a die