- LOSE
- Get trounced
- Mislay
- Place or show
- Take it on the chin
- Come in second
- Finish last
- Finish second
- Give the slip to
- Misplace
- Come in last
- Finish behind
- Shed
- Come out not on top
- Fail to win or place
- Have fewer runs, say
- Have all your Pokémon faint, perhaps
- Break the ice in Don't Break the Ice, e.g.
- Shake off
- Come up a second short
- Eat dirt
- Come up short
- Shake a tail?
- Go down
- Kiss goodbye
- Outstrip
- Get checkmated
- Earn lovely parting gifts?
- Get blitzed
- Succeed with a diet
- Get rid of
- Diet successfully
- Elude
- Be beat
- Disappoint the fans
- Have no luck at gambling
- Be defeated
- Fail to prevail
- Heads I win, tails you ___
- Shake, as a pursuer
- Finish out of the money
- Leave behind, as a pursuer
- Be an unsuccessful gambler
- Blow, as a game
- Drop
- Shake off, as a shadow
- Shake, in a way
- Get outscored
- Go down in flames
- Blow a lead, say
- Drop a few pounds
- Waste
- Get routed
- Receive the booby prize
- Shake, as a tail
- Shake, so to speak
- Shake
- End up with a consolation prize
- Take the booby prize
- Get beaten
- Get whupped
- Disappoint one's fans
- Drop, as weight
- Go down to defeat
- Ditch
- Leave in the dust
- Fail to keep
- Get licked
- What you might do when you snooze?
- Tank, perhaps
- Elicit Crying Jordan memes, usually
- Meet one's Waterloo
- Be a runner-up
- Give the slip
- Waste, as time
- Emulate the hare
- Get upset, in a way
- Be unable to find
- Remain in the cellar?
- Succeed in dieting
- Throw, as a fight
- Succeed at dieting
- Succeed, dietwise
- Shake, as a police tail
- Forfeit
- Blow, as a lead
- Earn some lovely parting gifts
- Emulate the 18-Down
- Get whipped
- Get shellacked, say
- What you may do when you snooze?
- Come in too late?
- Throw a fight, say
- Drop a game
- Drop in the stadium
- Be outscored
- Outwit, as a tail
- Take a beating
- Taste defeat
- You snooze, you __
- Forget where one put
- Resign, in chess
- Get upset?
- Come out second best
- Run last
- Run out of the money
- Shed pounds
- Succeed on a diet
- Be checkmated
- Drop, as pounds
- Get bested
- Back the wrong horse
- Give up
- Succeed with one's diet
- Diet-ad verb
- Don't prevail
- Fail to maintain
- Be deprived of
- Get rid of, so to speak
- Finish last, perhaps
- Squander
- Fail to win
- Engineer a tank
- Be bested
- Cut out
- Drop a match
- Take off, as weight
- Draw the short straw, say
- Be upset, say
- Get rid of, as a tail
- Let slip through the fingers.
- Qualify for the consolation round
- Receive fewer votes
- Suffer defeat
- Cease to have.
- Come off second best.
- Leave far behind.
- Get fewer votes.
- Be shut out.
- Win, ___ or draw.
- Miss.
- ___ face.
- Fail to keep, as one's temper.
- Run second.
- Grow slimmer.
- Take a booby prize.
- Come in second, e.g.
- Bet on the wrong horse.
- Let slip by.
- Win the booby prize.
- Be bested or worsted.
- Outdistance in a race.
- Miss out.
- Trail the field.
- Outdistance.
- Be on the short end
- Draw the wrong straw
- Miss the blue ribbon
- Leave behind
- Fare badly at the track
- Get the booby prize
- ___ ground (regress)
- ___ one's shirt
- Tails, you ___
- Outspeed handily
- Be an also-ran
- Costello and Gehrig*
- Be outmatched
- Flub the game
- What schlimazels usually do
- Have a setback
- Be vanquished
- Bring up the field
- Fail to conquer
- Make a successful getaway from
- Miss out on a prize
- Be Beaten
- Suffer deprivation
- Come in behind the others
- Fall (to)
- Word before face or heart
- Fail to medal
- With 5-Across, blow a fuse
- Alternative to draw
- Place last, say
- Place, e.g.
- Score the 3 in a 4-3 game
- Go home empty-handed, say
- Bow (to)
- Hit the top in Tetris, e.g.
- Finish second, say
- With 10-Down, miss the boat
- Finish last, say
- Go down, in a way
- Disappoint the coach, perhaps
- Word with face or heart
- Rikki Don't ___ That Number
- Born to ___ Social Distortion
- Pete Yorn "___ You"
- If I Ever ___ My Faith in You Sting
- Doors "Try now we can only __"
- Eric Carmen "Make Me ___ Control"
- Kiss "Nothin' to ___"
- Shake a pursuer
- Take a dive
- Gore took his message to MTV's "Choose or __" program
- Fail to take advantage of
- Not win
- Almost win
- Gamble badly
- Finish second or last
- Place at the track
- End up with nothing
- Take it on the chin, say
- Leave Vegas empty-handed
- Throw a walk-off homer, e.g.
- You might do it if you're behind
- Attain also-ran status
- Be the also-ran
- Fail
- Emulate a fabled hare
- Fail to win a medal
- Meet defeat
- Not be victorious
- Finish in last place
- Be a consolation round candidate
- ___ the attitude!
- Not prove victorious
- Win on Weight Watchers?
- Get defeated
- Suffer a defeat
- Go bankrupt, in Monopoly
- Reach the Candy Castle last, in Candy Land
- Word before "heart" or "touch"
- Word before "weight" or "time"
- Go down in defeat
- Draw the short straw
- Rhyme for "snooze," in an idiom
- Shake, as one's tail?
- Gamble away
- Come in second, per a competitive person
- Finish last in a race
- Blow a game
- Fail to score
- Be slow, as watches
- Place or show, in a sense
- ___ out on: See 38 Down
- Finish fourth
- Allow to go out of sight
- Elude on purpose
- Fall short
- Get the short straw
- Finish third
- Invest badly
- Alternative to win or draw
- Bring up the rear
- Give up a walk-off homer, e.g.
- Shake, as a detective
- Get shellacked
- Shake off, as a pursuer
- Finish second, perhaps
- Take a shellacking
- Trim one's waistline
- Be on the wrong side of a rout
- Break an undefeated streak
- Fail to get the W
- Take an L
- Get the fewest victory points
- Get nosed out
- Get 28 Across
- No time to ___!
- Get upset in the playoffs, say
- Have a bad day in Vegas
- Get skunked
- Get trounced, say
- Have the high score in a golf tournament
- Extend an unfortunate streak, say
- Shake, say
