Related Clues:

• No longer wearable, maybe
• Became smaller
• Approached third quarter, say
• Wound down
• Pale journalist grew faint
• Pasty leading journalist declined
• (Of moon) grew smaller
• Became weaker
• Decreased in size
• Pale journalist declined in power
• Gradually diminished
• Ebbed; declined
• Grew dimmer
• Grew smaller, as a cotton shirt
• Pale little man declined