Answer: LOSES
LOSES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 87 times.
Referring Clues:
- Gets licked
- Forfeits
- Shakes off
- Is eliminated from competition
- Comes in last
- Is defeated
- Misplaces
- Takes a drubbing
- Leaves in the dust
- Comes in second
- Manages to elude
- Has confiscated
- Takes it on the chin
- Gets bested
- Shakes, so to speak
- Diets successfully
- Finishes second
- Goes down to defeat
- Comes up short, say
- Succeeds with one's diet
- Gets whupped
- Shakes
- Is deprived of
- Finishes a close second
- Emulates most Las Vegas visitors
- Allows to get away
- Emulates many Las Vegas visitors
- Meets one's Waterloo
- Heads for the cellar
- Takes a dive
- Fails to retain
- Falls short, in points
- Doesn't find
- Throws, say
- Fails to show
- Gets the consolation prize
- Mislays
- Places last
- Finishes last
- Finishes out of the money
- Wins the battle of the bulge, ironically
- Bites the dust
- Fails to prevail
- Doesn't maintain
- Comes up short
- Takes a licking
- Earns the booby prize
- Goes down
- Suffers defeat
- Draws the short straw, say
- Gets knocked off
- Gets beaten
- Shakes, as a tail
- Squanders
- Blows, perhaps
- Shakes, as in a car chase
- Accepts defeat
- Suffers defeats
- Gets rid of, as weight
- Gives the slip
- Gets the booby prize
- Suffers a 47-Across
- Gives the slip to
- Comes in second out of two
- Finishes with fewer votes
- Doesn't win
- Is Schneidered
- Is badly beaten
- Blows the victory
- Gets rid of
- Draws the short straw
- Can't find
- Suffers a defeat
- Takes an "L"
- Doesn't prevail
- Doesn't get the gold
- Isn't elected
- Shows rock against paper, for example
- Gets defeated
- Topples the Jenga tower, say
- Sheds
- Runs a close second or a distant last
- Crosses the finish line last, say
- Isn't victorious
- Takes the count
- Falls short, say
- Doesn't make the podium
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 17, 2025
- New York Times - October 15, 2025
- LA Times - August 26, 2025
- New York Times - August 09, 2025
- LA Times - April 13, 2025
- USA Today - March 07, 2024
- New York Times - February 26, 2024
- LA Times - December 09, 2023
- New York Times - November 20, 2023
- USA Today - May 02, 2023
- USA Today - December 26, 2022
- LA Times - November 10, 2022
- LA Times - May 08, 2022
- USA Today - April 25, 2022
- New York Times - March 10, 2022
- USA Today - January 13, 2022
- LA Times - November 20, 2021
- USA Today - June 24, 2021
- LA Times - April 20, 2021
- USA Today - March 19, 2021
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