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Dropped painter outside front of gallery after lift (6)

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sagged

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'dropped' is the definition.
(sagging is a kind of dropping)

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(Other definitions for sagged that I've seen before include "Hung down loosely" , "Hung down, subsided" , "Drooped, sank" , "Hung down in the middle" , "Slumped" .)

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