| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| MANQUE | Having failed aspirations |
| FALLENFLAT | Having failed miserably |
| NOTINIT | Having failed to ante up, say |
| stillborn | (of a proposal or plan) Having failed to develop or succeed; unrealized |
| sphinxes | A winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide |
