Related Clues:
- Sinks under pressure
- Numerical downturns
- Transfers to more than one in 15 across
- Lines that split without breaking apart
- Responds to a phone solicitation, perhaps
- Becomes droopy
- Proves one's generosity to those characters in 15 across on bender
- Gets less taut
- "What ___?"
- Lacks firmness
- Wilts badly
- Loses tautness
- Grows slack
- Gives in to gravity, as a roof
- Droops a bit in the center