Answer: LOSER
LOSER is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 141 times.
Referring Clues:
- Vanquished
- Schlemiel
- Not a medalist
- See 143-Down
- Short-straw drawer
- Good sport, perhaps
- Schlimazel
- Dweeb
- The one with 0 in 7-0
- Terse putdown
- Dewey, to Truman
- Doofus
- One who doesn't go past a semi?
- Sad sack
- Bottom dog
- Deadbeat
- Sore person?
- Also-ran
- Perry Mason, only once
- Misfit
- Stock that drops in value
- Hapless one
- Naked strip poker player, e.g.
- Runner-up
- Beck hit with the lyric "So why don't you kill me?"
- Successful dieter
- Born __
- Unsuccessful trophy seeker
- Flop
- Mr. Wrong?
- Last-place finisher
- Defeated one
- Sore one, maybe
- Luckless one
- Jerk
- Person trying to smile at an awards show
- Short straw drawer, e.g.
- Typical Las Vegas gambler
- Place or show horse
- Habitual failure
- Consistent failure
- A weeper, according to a saying
- He may be sore
- Perennial last-place finisher
- One who weeps, in a saying
- Short straw drawer
- 36-Down, notably
- #2 or #3
- Goes down to defeat
- Unfortunate fellow
- Consolation prize recipient
- He can't get a break
- #2 or #3, say
- Born ___
- "The Biggest ___"
- 2000 Jason Biggs comedy-romance
- Strip poker player in the buff, e.g.
- Runner-up in a race
- Willy Loman, classically
- Person faking a smile at an awards show
- Failure
- "The Biggest ___" show(5)
- Chump
- Hard-luck case
- Come in second, say?
- Dangerfield persona
- Dangerfield persona
- Who the jury voted against
- Pathetic person
- 'The Biggest ___'
- Charlie Brown, typically
- Winner's victim
- Ne'er-do-well
- Last one in
- Like one who is 52-Down
- One who can't catch a break
- Tool
- Defeated rival
- The hare, notably
- Hopeless guy
- Weeper, proverbially
- One who finishes last
- Taunting word
- One not allowed in the winners' circle
- Runner-up, essentially
- One who fails repeatedly
- Defeated contestant
- Many a casino visitor
- Sore sort, maybe
- X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g.
- 'The Biggest '
- Hapless sort
- Schlub
- Defeated candidate
- One finishing second
- Hard luck case
- Put-down from Donald Trump
- One finishing second?
- Person defeated
- Short-straw picker
- Luckless sort
- Unlucky gambler
- Sore ___
- Jockey, often
- One not getting an Olympic medal
- Olympian who doesn't medal
- Last place finisher, obviously
- Usually disappointed one
- Dud
- Unlucky one
- What a two-fingered "L" represents
- Deadbeat, e.g.
- Schiemiel
- Player over 21, perhaps
- Juvenile put-down
- '90s Beck hit
- 28-Down's opposite
- Drawer of the short straw
- Cornwallis, at Yorktown
- Many a gambler
- One who can't 21-Down
- Last-place finisher, e.g.
- One snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, say
- The hare, to the tortoise
- Paper, vis-à-vis scissors
- One bettered
- The hare, in "The Tortoise and the Hare"
- Unsuccessful competitor
- Defeated competitor
- Second or third person?
- Checkmated chess player, for example
- Schlump
- One who draws the short straw
- Player who topples the Jenga tower
- Underdog, often
- 1993 Beck single
- What two fingers in the shape of an "L" can mean
- Fabled hare, e.g.
- Who pays all legal costs under the so-called "English rule"
- Last one to cross the finish line
- Concession speech deliverer
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 19, 2025
- LA Times - September 05, 2025
- USA Today - April 03, 2025
- LA Times - November 21, 2024
- New York Times - August 01, 2024
- LA Times - July 10, 2024
- New York Times - June 03, 2024
- New York Times - May 19, 2024
- LA Times - March 21, 2024
- New York Times - July 05, 2023
- LA Times - February 10, 2023
- LA Times - January 06, 2023
- USA Today - November 18, 2022
- LA Times - October 31, 2022
- New York Times - January 22, 2022
- USA Today - January 04, 2022
- New York Times - November 11, 2021
- USA Today - November 10, 2021
- USA Today - October 13, 2021
- USA Today - May 07, 2021
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