Possible Clues:

• Twilight time, to poets
• Dusk
• Smooth flow, perhaps, late in the day
• Regular ebb and flow of late
• Faller noted before start of Cup Final
• Poor sailors hope for it late in the day
• Competition I had entered, initially, late in the day
• Do fish, later on in the day
• Of late it happens to die in a mess
• Still said to be bound together at end of day