EBBING

Abating

• Backward flow

• Be uplifted by Crosby's decline (6)

• Declining

• Declining in power

• Fading slowly

• Falling back

• Flowing back

• Going back

• Going out to sea

• Going out, as the tide

• Heading toward empty

• In decline

• On the wane

• Receding

• Refluent

• Sadly, Big Ben is on the decline (6)

• Subsiding

• Winding down

• Fall away or decline

• Flow back or recede

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)