Possible Clues:

• Formerly caught lying in shade like a mammoth?
• Put out mischievous text about elected Conservative
• Nice text -- unfortunately line finally goes dead
• As a dodo?
• Wiped out former colour?
• Dead cross, being held by French and in court
• Put out text initially rejected in court
• Without money, court is lost
• Incorporated in garbled text with no valid claimant
• New excitements seem to vanish, becoming a thing of the past