DYING

Failing on the stage

• ___ 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 onstage

• Faulkner's As I Lay ___

• Fizzling out

• Flopping at a comedy club

• Flopping on a comedy gig

• Flopping, as a business

• 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