LOSER | "The Biggest ___" |
LOSER | "The Biggest ___" (NBC reality show) |
LOSER | "The Biggest ___" (reality show about getting fit) |
LOSER | "The Biggest ___" (reality show hosted by Bob Harper) |
LOSER | "The Biggest ___" (reality show with weigh-ins) |
LOSER | "The Biggest —" |
LOSER | "The Born ___" (classic comic strip) |
LOSER | #2 or #3 |
LOSER | #2 or #3, say |
LOSER | 28-Down's opposite |
LOSER | 36-Down, notably |
LOSER | Aesop’s hare, notably |
LOSER | Also-ran |
LOSER | Any of three semifinalists, eventually |
LOSER | Beck song that begins "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" |
LOSER | Beck's first hit song |
LOSER | Booby prize recipient |
LOSER | Booby prize winner |
LOSER | Booby-prize recipient |
LOSER | Born ___ (person who's destined to fail) |
LOSER | Bottom dog |
LOSER | Change roles with no-hoper |
LOSER | Checkmated chess player, for example |
LOSER | Chump |
LOSER | Complete dweeb |
LOSER | Concession speech deliverer |
LOSER | Concession speech giver |
LOSER | Consolation prize recipient |
LOSER | Cornwallis, at Yorktown |
LOSER | Daniil Medvedev vis-à-vis Novak Djokovic in the 2023 U.S. Open final, e.g. |
LOSER | Deadbeat |
LOSER | Deadbeat, e.g. |
LOSER | Defeated candidate |
LOSER | Defeated competitor |
LOSER | Defeated contestant |
LOSER | Defeated one |
LOSER | Defeated person |
LOSER | Defeated player |
LOSER | Dewey, to Truman |
LOSER | Doofus |
LOSER | Dork |
LOSER | Down-on-one's-luck sort |
LOSER | Drawer of the short straw |
LOSER | Dud |
LOSER | Dweeb |
LOSER | Exchange roles with no-hoper |
LOSER | Fabled hare, e.g. |
LOSER | Failure |
LOSER | Felon, informally |
LOSER | Final finisher |
LOSER | Flop |
LOSER | Goliath, notably |
LOSER | Good sport, perhaps |
LOSER | Hapless sort |
LOSER | Hard luck case |
LOSER | Hardly a winner |
LOSER | He can't buy a break |
LOSER | Insult delivered while making an L on one's forehead |
LOSER | Insult signified by the thumb and pointer finger on one's forehead |
LOSER | Jenga tower toppler, e.g. |
LOSER | Juvenile put-down |
LOSER | Last person? |
LOSER | Last place holder, say |
LOSER | Last to cross the finish line |
LOSER | Last-place finisher |
LOSER | Like the hare in a fable |
LOSER | Locker room sulker |
LOSER | Luckless fellow |
LOSER | Luckless one |
LOSER | Luckless sort |
LOSER | Many a 15-Down player |
LOSER | Many a gambler |
LOSER | Misfit |
LOSER | Ne'er-do-well |
LOSER | Not a medalist |
LOSER | Not a winner |
LOSER | Olympian who doesn't medal |
LOSER | One bested by the winner |
LOSER | One not allowed in the winners' circle |
LOSER | One of the 87-Down |
LOSER | One snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, say |
LOSER | One who can't 21-Down |
LOSER | One who can't catch a break |
LOSER | One who comes off worse in a contest |
LOSER | One who doesn't go past a semi? |
LOSER | One who doesn't win |
LOSER | One who draws the short straw |
LOSER | One who finishes last |
LOSER | One who's beaten |
LOSER | Paper, vis-à-vis scissors |
LOSER | Pathetic person |
LOSER | Person defeated |
LOSER | Person who comes in last place |
LOSER | Person who draws the short straw |
LOSER | Person who might get a participation trophy |
LOSER | Person who's never victorious |
LOSER | Player over 21, perhaps |
LOSER | Player who topples the Jenga tower |
LOSER | Postgame moper |
LOSER | Postgame sulker |
LOSER | Put-down from Donald Trump |
LOSER | Runner-up |
LOSER | Runner-up in a race |
LOSER | Runner-up to exchange roles |
LOSER | Sad sack |
LOSER | Schlemiel |
LOSER | Schlimazel |
LOSER | Schlub |
LOSER | Schlump |
LOSER | Scissors vis-à-vis rock, e.g. |
LOSER | Second best |
LOSER | Second or third person? |
LOSER | See 143-Down |
LOSER | Short straw drawer |
LOSER | Short-straw drawer |
LOSER | Sore __ |
LOSER | Sore ___ (one who reacts badly to failure) |
LOSER | Sore ___ (one who reacts poorly to failing) |
LOSER | Sore ___ (one who's ungracious in defeat) |
LOSER | Sore ___ (poor sport) |
LOSER | Sore ___ (someone who reacts poorly to a defeat) |
LOSER | Sore ___, someone who may be salty for not winning |
LOSER | Successful dieter |
LOSER | Swap roles with no-hoper |
LOSER | Taunt indicated by an extended index finger and thumb by the forehead |
LOSER | Taunting word |
LOSER | Terse putdown |
LOSER | The Beatles' "I'm a ____" |
LOSER | The defeated |
LOSER | The hare, in "The Tortoise and the Hare" |
LOSER | The hare, notably |
LOSER | The hare, to the tortoise |
LOSER | The one with 0 in 7-0 |
LOSER | The vanquished |
LOSER | Unfortunate fellow |
LOSER | Unsuccessful competitor |
LOSER | Unsuccessful person |
LOSER | Unsuccessful trophy seeker |
LOSER | Usually disappointed one |
LOSER | Vanquished |
LOSER | Vanquished one |
LOSER | Washout |
LOSER | Who pays all legal costs under the so-called "English rule" |
LOSER | Winner of a consolation prize |
LOSER | Winner's opposite |
LOSER | X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g. |
LOSER | “Better luck next time” addressee |