Possible Clues:

• Wretched lie-abeds let themselves down?
• Dropped a stock complaint food shop rejected
• A graduate teacher full of inventive lies went down line
• Man on board and what he did reportedly -- went down rope
• Sailor did his thing, we hear -- descended using rope
• Lowered oneself with a rope from a mountain
• Rests back in a bed and let oneself down
• Beadle is struggling having been let down
• Daringly dropped from side, able to re-group
• Descended rock face