- LOSER
- The Born __
- Consistent failure
- Wanderer
- Hardly a winner
- He has lots of sour-grapes?
- Jenny Craig fan
- Short-straw drawer
- Insult delivered while making an {/L/} on one's forehead
- Beck single of 1993
- Beck's breakout single
- Early Beck single
- Beck single of 1994
- Beck, for example, baby
- Last one in
- Beck's breakout hit
- Participation trophy recipient
- Trumpian insult
- Hit song from Beck
- Misfit
- Schlemiel
- Doofus
- Also-ran
- Consolation-prize recipient
- Defeated rival
- Unfortunate fellow
- Runner-up
- The Born ___ (Chip Sansom comic strip)
- Runner-up in a match race
- Sore person?
- Perry Mason, only once
- Stock that drops in value
- Hapless one
- Successful dieter
- The Biggest ___
- Strip poker player in the buff, e.g.
- Sad sack
- Hopeless guy
- Certain game show competitor
- One bettered
- Bad bet
- Last-place team
- Luckless one
- Habitual failure
- Any of three semifinalists
- Flop
- Mr. Wrong?
- Unsuccessful trophy seeker
- Born __
- Like one who is 52-Down
- Hapless sort
- Hard luck case
- Many a casino visitor
- Sore sort, maybe
- Short-straw picker
- Sore __
- Usually disappointed one
- Player over 21, perhaps
- What a two-fingered "L" represents
- 28-Down's opposite
- Many a gambler
- One who draws the short straw
- Fabled hare, e.g.
- Last one to cross the finish line
- One finishing second
- One without promise
- Weeper, maybe
- Creep
- Defeated one
- Last-place finisher
- Sore one, maybe
- Dweeb
- Jerk
- Chump
- Ne'er-do-well
- See 56 Down
- Vanquished one
- Person defeated
- Unlucky one
- Cornwallis, at Yorktown
- Felon, informally
- Goliath, notably
- Little Bo-Peep, for one.
- Second-best contestant.
- Naked strip poker player, e.g.
- Beck hit with the lyric "So why don't you kill me?"
- Defeated candidate.
- He pays up.
- Sugar Ray on June 25th.
- Team in the cellar.
- Short-ender.
- Underdog.
- Winner of the booby prize.
- Second best.
- Second-best one.
- Winner of a red ribbon.
- An also-ran.
- Booby prize winner.
- Election casualty.
- Defeated contestant
- Weeper, proverbially
- Low card.
- Money dropper.
- Member of a Las Vegas majority.
- Minnesota to Los Angeles.
- Tailender.
- Goliath, for one
- Humphrey, in 1968
- Edsel, for one
- Weeper, in adage
- Weeper, in saying
- Bad-luck guy
- Sore ___
- One back in the pack
- Traditional weeper
- Burgoyne at Saratoga
- Proverbial weeper
- Schlimazel
- He may be sore
- Word with sore
- Carter vis-à-vis Reagan
- Ford in 1976
- His wager should have been sager
- McGovern, in 1972
- McDowell or Pope, at Bull Run
- Mondale on Nov. 6, 1984
- Bested one
- Born follower
- Defeated pitcher
- Born ___ (schlemiel)
- Unsuccessful participant
- Carthage, in the Punic Wars
- T.K.O. victim, e.g.
- What Bryan was to Taft
- Dewey in 1948
- The Beatles' "I'm a ____"
- Vanquished
- Not a medalist
- See 143-Down
- Good sport, perhaps
- Dewey, to Truman
- Terse putdown
- The one with 0 in 7-0
- One who doesn't go past a semi?
- Bottom dog
- Deadbeat
- #2 or #3
- 36-Down, notably
- #2 or #3, say
- One who can't catch a break
- The hare, notably
- Put-down from Donald Trump
- Schlub
- X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g.
- Dud
- Deadbeat, e.g.
- Juvenile put-down
- Paper, vis-à-vis scissors
- Second or third person?
- Schlump
- 1993 Beck single
- What two fingers in the shape of an "L" can mean
- Who pays all legal costs under the so-called "English rule"
- Pointless player, perhaps
- 2000 Jason Biggs comedy-romance
- Beck's breakthrough hit
- Beck's first smash
- Many a lotto player
- Trump, vis-à-vis the 2020 election
- Second place finisher
- Booby-prize recipient
- Better luck next time addressee
- Dork
- Lovable ___ (character such as Charlie Brown)
- A good dieter?
- Person trying to smile at an awards show
- One with sour grapes?
- Typical Las Vegas gambler
- One who weeps, in a saying
- The one in last place, e.g.
- Short straw drawer, e.g.
- Place or show horse
- Runner-up, essentially
- Sometimes a dieter is one
- Luckless fellow
- He can't get a break
- Person faking a smile at an awards show
- Runner-up in a race
- Winner's victim
- One who finishes last
- Last place finisher, obviously
- One not getting an Olympic medal
- '90s Beck hit
- Defeated competitor
- The hare, in "The Tortoise and the Hare"
- Unsuccessful competitor
- Last-place finisher, e.g.
- The hare, in a fabled race
- Fortune's fool
- Cleveland in the '94 World Series
- Hopeless one
- Athlete, at times
- Perennial last-place finisher
- A weeper, according to a saying
- Beck hit of 1993
- One not allowed in the winners' circle
- Taunting word
- Everyone except the winner
- Luckless sort
- Any of three semifinalists, eventually
- Down-on-one's-luck sort
- Drawer of the short straw
- One who can't 21-Down
- Jenga tower toppler, e.g.
- One snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, say
- The hare, to the tortoise
- Checkmated chess player, for example
- Player who topples the Jenga tower
- He's sore, maybe
- One-day "Jeopardy!" contestant, e.g.
- Lovable archetype
- A sore one can't handle defeat gracefully
- Sore ___ (poor sport)
- Pathetic person
- Locker room sulker
- Hardly one of the in crowd
- Postgame sulker
- Postgame moper
- Concession speech giver
