Related Clues:

• Expel air or die
• Get out of breath, being no longer fit
• Nurse's profession drops a point
• Nurse, for example, presenting vehicle to the Queen
• Expire, though previously fit as a fiddle
• One who is responsible for progress in profession lacking energy
• One tends to hurry pointlessly
• Run out (of time?)
• Attendant in nursing home
• One with responsibility for dependent person
• Does this lapse refer to where old Nelson stood, say?
• Breath out
• Lapse, as a license
• Breathe out — die
• Person who attends to a dependent adult