Related Clues:

• Space patrolled and exhausted?
• Worst - best
• Pound — defeat
• Prepared, as an Oreo or a Twinkie at a carnival
• Sautéed
• Drummer's duty
• Dead on one's feet
• Apt rhyme for "defeat"
• Worst — and best!
• Edged out
• "And the ___ goes on"
• Maestro's meter
• Overheated dancer's first to grab one
• Beaten by a whisker
• Patrolman's rounds