Related Clues:

• Short-straw drawers
• Clobber those failures
• Raised odds in the sea beast's misdemeanours
• One assumes them to be failures
• Outfits that won't go off
• Do they keep to the beaten track?
• Memory slips
• Ne'er-do-wells
• Utter failures
• Fizzled firecrackers
• Failures in maintaining standards
• Things that are put on ... or don't go off
• They're defeated
• Fizzling firecrackers
• Odd sorels don't win