Related Clues:

• Poor wit associated with frivolous period that's dimly perceived?
• Obscure group of women beginning to laugh coming in drunk
• Drunk about to leave, finishing early, when the night's still young?
• Poem by Gilbert Parker, set to music by Edward Elgar
• Declining stage
• Mean to go round with one on lake in the gloaming
• Misplaced wit, lacking seriousness in period of decline
• Period of gradual decline or obscurity
• Period post-sunset
• Wit surprisingly easy at the end of the day
• Evening time on island, around 1:50
• Determination slightly lacking in tense period of gradual decline
• Decline in W1 — left drunk outside
• Decline of wit, lively and amusing
• With the Italian during tense period towards the end of the day?