Related Clues:

• Checkmated chess player, for example
• Oft-failing person
• Runner-up maybe less tense after conceding round
• Solitary guy has change of heart: he’s not successful
• Second or third person?
• Schlump
• Failure of Super League? Football fans to finally riot
• Unlucky one makes up endless resolutions.
• Some failure, so likely to get turned over?
• Line over river blocked by points failure
• Disheartened partner accepts second hopeless case
• One failing to win in close race
• Player who topples the Jenga tower
• One who draws the short straw
• Bridesmaid, increasingly promiscuous, wanting love?