Possible Clues:

• Totally not happening
• What the circled letters can also spell
• Useless people in the Black Hills
• The Evil ____ (2006 horror movie)
• Like some phones or weights
• Old man swallowing tablet becomes numb
• Word with "duck" or "end"
• Like a spent battery
• __ in the water
• Like Masefield's Ned, late, and already obsolete