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anticlimax

Answer	Crossword Clue
ANTICLIMAX	Novelistic disappointment.
ANTICLIMAX	A letdown, rhetorically speaking.
ANTICLIMAX	"For God, for country, and for Yale."

ANTICLIMAX	Letdown.
ANTICLIMAX	Letdown of a kind.
ANTICLIMAX	Big letdown
ANTICLIMAX	Transition from significance to triviality
ANTICLIMAX	Not for the summit?
ANTICLIMAX	It goes pfft!