Related Clues:

• Runner defeated in close race
• Dead one put down in King George?
• No-hoper could be changing roles
• About sunup he had to admit defeat
• In various roles one is unlikely to succeed
• Unsuccessful person held back by irresolution
• Terminator's head blown off by tail-ender
• Hang on, Eritrea is not entirely a lost cause
• Flop is its first attraction, if I get a bit of a bottom line
• One who is always a failure
• One who is always unsuccessful
• Proverbially, one who hesitates
• One without hope
• Someone as good as dead
• One who is (always) unsuccessful