Answer: NEED
NEED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 231 times.
Referring Clues:
- Call for
- Welfare state?
- Exigency
- Financial aid criterion
- Requisite
- Require
- Distress
- Shortage
- Requirement
- Grant basis
- Difficulty, so to speak
- Lack
- Sine qua non
- Charity's calculation
- Indigence
- Poverty
- Be short of
- Can't do without
- "___ I say more?"
- Emergency
- Desideratum
- Penury
- Scholarship criterion
- Cry out for
- Straits
- Have to have
- Reason for a donation
- Craving
- What have-nots have
- Scholarship basis
- Essential
- Not just desire
- Bad straits
- Grant criterion, often
- It's more than a desire
- Must-have item
- Impecuniosity
- "No ___"
- Beggary
- "A friend in __ is ..."
- Triage factor
- Must have
- Crave
- Must-have
- Addiction
- Scholarship consideration
- Want
- "___ a lift?"
- More than want
- Have an opening for
- Food, clothing, or shelter
- Compulsion
- Scholarship basis, sometimes
- On a ___-to-know basis
- Necessity
- "I ___ a drink!"
- Shortfall
- Indispensible item
- It's not optional
- Food or shelter, e.g.
- It may be urgent
- Grant consideration
- "All You ___ Is Love"
- Obligation
- Can't live without
- "What You ___" (1986 INXS hit)
- Financial aid factor
- Essential thing
- Aid basis, often
- Food or water, e.g.
- It's not an option
- Financial aid basis
- "All I __": Jack Wagner hit
- Prerequisite
- If __ be
- It may be pressing
- Be out of
- Duty
- Be without
- Pine for
- Absolute must
- No frill, this
- Can't be without
- It can be pressing
- ''___ I say more?''
- ''Mr. Watson ... I ___ you!'' (A.G. Bell)
- Dearth
- More than desire
- Essential item
- "A friend in ___ is . . ."
- Be unable to function without
- Impoverishment
- State of misfortune
- Reason for some scholarships
- Urgent want
- Could really use
- Food, clothing or shelter
- Basic requirement
- Critical shortage
- More than merely want
- College aid consideration
- Triage consideration
- Suffer without
- ___-to-know basis
- Basis for financial aid
- Welfare factor
- Urgency
- Water, for all
- Really could use
- Demand
- Self-contained
- Destitution
- "Mr. Watson ... I ___ you!" (A.G. Bell)
- "All I ___": Jack Wagner hit
- If ___ be
- Can't give up
- Can't forgo
- "A friend in ___ is ..."
- Absolutely have to have
- Reason for some grants
- Aid criterion
- Have to get
- Be in want of
- The ___ for speed
- Financial-aid criterion
- Condition of misfortune
- Have occasion for
- Gotta have
- Got to have
- Aid consideration
- Aid factor
- Passport for foreign travel, e.g.
- Be lacking in
- Cry for
- Scholarship factor
- Paucity
- Imperative
- Must acquire
- Triage determination
- Scholarship basis, often
- "I ___ a vacation!"
- "___ a hand?" (helpful query)
- ___ I say more?
- Not just want
- Hunger for
- Grant factor
- Run short of
- Basis for many scholarships
- More than crave
- Don't just want
- Scholarship criterion, maybe
- Factor in some scholarships
- PBS's "___ to Know"
- More than just want
- Something essential
- Basis for some financial aid
- Mandatory item
- "people who ___ people..."
- Do more than want
- "___ I go on?"
- Privation
- Grant basis, at times
- "No ___ to apologize"
- "I ___ Your Love Tonight" ('59 Presley hit)
- Must-have thing
- Water, for most
- Deficiency
- Financial aid consideration
- Triage basis
- Triage criterion
- It's a must
- Attention, for some
- Food, shelter or clothing
- Basis of a scholarship
- Crying ___
- Desire
- Food or water
- Criterion for public assistance
- Food, air or water, e.g.
- Food or air
- Depend on
- Penurious state
- "No ___" ("I'm fine")
- Must obtain
- Must get
- Have requirements
- Morning coffee, for many
- Have (to)
- Basis for charitable donations
- Grant factor, often
- Extreme poverty
- Water, food or air
- "Being so great, I have no ___ to beg": "King Richard II"
- Basis for some grants
- It's mandatory
- Beg for
- Basis of some scholarships
- Grant factor, sometimes
- Food is a basic one
- Want's relative
- Kitchen, for a chef
- Financial aid basis, usually
- Grant criterion
- Water, e.g., for a plant
- Bargaining point that's nonnegotiable
- Be sorely lacking in
- It may be crying
- It's not merely a yen
- Name on both "The Simpsons" and "South Park"
- Water or light, for a plant
- Thing to fulfill
- One in Maslow's hierarchy
- One might be pressing
- Must
- "I ___ a nap!"
- Lawyer, for a defendant, typically
- What air is not for an anaerobe
- What a shortage suggests
- Big ask, sometimes
- Not a want but a ___
- Just have to have
- Sun, for a sunflower
- Desperate straits
- More than a want
- Grant consideration, sometimes
- Nonnegotiable thing
- Absolutely must have
- ___-blind admission
- "___ a hand?"
- "... should the ___ arise"
- Thing categorized in Maslow's Hierarchy
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 27, 2025
- LA Times - September 20, 2025
- LA Times - August 17, 2025
- USA Today - July 11, 2025
- USA Today - June 17, 2025
- LA Times - May 14, 2025
- USA Today - April 17, 2025
- New York Times - March 30, 2025
- USA Today - March 14, 2025
- LA Times - February 28, 2025
- USA Today - February 20, 2025
- New York Times - February 09, 2025
- New York Times - January 17, 2025
- LA Times - January 15, 2025
- LA Times - December 16, 2024
- USA Today - October 16, 2024
- New York Times - September 30, 2024
- USA Today - September 26, 2024
- LA Times - September 09, 2024
- New York Times - August 25, 2024
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