Failure of finisher missing header (5)

Independent Cryptic #11677 | 24 Down | 2024-03-14
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Failure of finisher missing header <c> LOSER (=finisher); “missing header” means first letter is dropped; a person who is a failure could be described as a loser

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