Last seen in:
- L.A. Times Daily - Dec 18 2022
- Wall Street Journal - Jun 29 2022 - Talking Shop
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,811 - Jan 9 2021
- The Washington Post - Mar 26 2018
- L.A. Times Daily - Mar 26 2018
- The Washington Post - May 23 2017
- L.A. Times Daily - May 23 2017
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 14,546 - Dec 21 2016
- New York Times - Aug 14 2016
- The Washington Post - May 26 2016
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- Went out like the tide
- Decreased gradually
- Didn't wax, say
- Went from full to gibbous
- Dropped off where sleepers are grabbing a rest at last
- Journalist, beyond pale, became less important
- Flowed back out, like the tide
- ___ and flowed
- Plant, end of stem becoming black, declined
- Gradually rolled back, as a tide
- Went out of section of dartboard after treble in the middle
- English bachelor with somewhere to lie went out on the beach
- Slackened, lessened
- Journalist going to a club cooled off