Related Clues:

• I am over the hill - in this situation, nothing can be done
• Unpromising situation where troublemaker takes almost full advantage
• Situation of deadlock
• Island motorway, out of date, causing standstill
• A stand-off, as the out-of-date might say
• Drunken colleague without energy in dead-end position
• Unlikely to see anything other than a reversal here?
• I am left behind in hopeless difficulty
• Lack of movement behind Times admission?
• Admission of outmoded person's hopeless situation?
• I am old-fashioned - I permit no further progress
• Bachelor girl you will look up - no progress there
• No progress here as one million rail travellers halved
• I am old-fashioned, in a deadlock
• Stalling of negotiations as one representative finds advantage lessened