Possible Clues:

• Desperate to continue, start to dispute before long
• Done in desperation
• Continue scrap to the bitter end
• Survive, having to abandon desperate defenders here
• Of an attempt or stand, final and desperate
• Desperate, the French duke in pain
• Place to finally fight terminal depression
• Desperate lad with stitch, struggling
• A good man with depression under 50 is desperate
• Go on date long after all else has failed