| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| RECEDE | Fall away | |
| DISSOLVE | To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power. | |
| FAIL | To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. | |
| BUTTER-FINGERED | Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless. | |
| BOGUE | To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft. | |
| HOLD | Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for. | |
| DWINDLE | To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. | |
| BACKSLIDE | To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. | |
| FUGITIVE | Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. | |
| WASHOUT | ...y of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, w... | |