| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| falling short | 5 letters | slump |
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| falling short | 7 letters | teasing |
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| falling short | 8 letters | shortage |
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| falling short | 9 letters | shortfall |
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| falling short | 11 letters | second-best |
| falling short | 11 letters | tantalizing |
| falling short | 13 letters | unsuitability |
| falling short | 14 letters | unsatisfactory |
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- fourth class
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- Irregular
- Low class
- Low-quality
- Low grade
- low test
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- little time leads to deficit
- lack support to carry gun around
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- Need a little time
- lack of drink taking time
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- lack of gear, shot to pieces
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- Lack of supplies or resources
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- arrear
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- defectibility
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- U-turn from abundance
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- Loss, deficit
- Insufficiency; deficit
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- defectiveness
- delinquency
- Deprivation
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- Losing streak
- Batter's woe
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- Economic downturn
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- athlete's down time?
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- Period of decline
- Plums sadly in collapse
- batter's rough patch
- Droop
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- Ballplayer's woe
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- Collapse of square block
- Fall, as real estate prices
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- Batter's nightmare
- Drop off
- Dry spell
- Batter's bane
- Slouch
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- Problem for batters or investors
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- Fall heavily
- Don't have good posture
- Financial depression
- unhappy time for a bull
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- sudden decline
- sudden drop in business
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- athlete's cold spell
- slugger's unproductive period
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- economic depression
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- small swelling to subside
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- Severe downturn in the economy
- ghetto? quietly decline
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- Arrears
- bad times
- be found wanting
- bear market
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- beat-down
- ...... boom
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- business cycle
- business fluctuations
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- catabasis
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- Cave
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- come short
- comedown
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- Crash
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- Cut
- Cut prices
- debasement
- Decadence
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- Declination
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- Decline and Fall?
- declining market
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- decurrence
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- defectiveness
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- deflate
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- deformation
- degeneracy
- degenerateness
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- delinquency
- demotion
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- falling short
- falling off
- falloff
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- Founder
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- hit rock bottom
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- keel over
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