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Gives out, eyelids fluttering with energy singularly gone (6)

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yields

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'gives' is the definition.
(yielding is a kind of giving)

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(Other definitions for yields that I've seen before include "Crops or dividends" , "outputs" , "Succumbs" , "bows" , "Investment returns" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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