| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DESCEND | Become lower | |
| SUBSIDE | To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. | |
| INVERSION | Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc. | |
| DEGENERATE | To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type. | |
| DEGENERATION | That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher ... | |