- DYING
- ___ is for fools. Amateurs.
- I'm ___ here!
- On the way out
- Obsolescent
- Stand-up comic's fear
- Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before ___"
- Going out, as a fire
- Bombing, as a comedian
- Performing very badly, as a comedian
- Flopping, as a business
- Eager
- About to conk out
- Losing power
- Fizzling out
- About to go out
- Like a graying ember
- Desiring greatly, with "for"
- Fading away
- Like embers
- Flopping at a comedy club
- Failing on the stage
- Becoming extinct, with "out"
- Drawing to a close.
- ___ swan
- Faulkner's "As I Lay ___"
- I am ___, Egypt . . .
- . . . despised and ___ king: Shelley
- Declining, as a fire
- Subsiding, with "down"
- Bombing, as a comic
- Declining, as embers
- Not getting many laughs, as a comedian
- Like a phone down to 1%
- Going out, as embers
- 'A Kiss Before -- ('91 film)'
- Almost out of power
- Embarrassed to the extreme, colloquially
- Flopping on stage
- Going down hard at a comedy club
- Super eager (to)
- Like a phone with almost no battery power
- Bombing, on stage
- OMG SO FUNNY!
- Fading
- Fading out
- Flopping on a comedy gig
- Laughing nonstop, so to speak
- Conking out
- See 6-Across