Possible Clues:

• Player who topples the Jenga tower
• #2 or #3
• Resole this if there's no W in it but E is there
• This competitor getting nearer? Not first!
• 36-Down, notably
• 2000 Jason Biggs comedy-romance
• One who finishes, but not the first
• Habitual failure
• Misfit
• One snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, say