Possible Clues:

• Get what will happen to Basil if deprived of water with a grain of salt on the borders
• Eva’s henpecked husband in several Tom Sharpe novels
• Are you going to lose energy?
• Flag for leaders of West Indian Latin teachers
• Become limp, droop
• NBA great Chamberlain
• Crumble under pressure
• Become limp, as lettuce
• Ave —; black —
• Fade like a flower