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Other crossword clues for answer "LOSERS"

LOSERS
Consolation-prize winners
The majority of Vegas visitors
Successful dieters
Weight Watchers patrons
Also-rans
Recipients of "lovely parting gifts"
Weepers?
Consolation prize recipients
Perennial failures
Zeroes
Unsuccessful types
They aren't champs
Failures (and in another way, a hint to 17-, 27-, 44- and 57-Across)
Total failures
Second-person plural?
Hopeless cases
They weep
Hapless ones
Flops
Defeated ones
Ne'er-do-wells
Schlemiels
Unsuccessful fighters.
Bag-holders.
Dodgers, in 1949 and 1952 World Series.
Forfeiters.
Silky Sullivan and others.
Hard-luck players.
Underdogs.
Last ones in.
The outs.
Unlucky players.
Unlucky ones.
Some weepers.
Traditional weepers
Certain bridge cards
Low cards, usually
Outdistanced ones
Proverbial weepers
Sandburg poem
Poem by Sandburg
Misfits
Ties don't have them
They may be sore after a game
Winners' opposites
Things that ties never have
See 26-Down
Zeros
Duo who have to give up their foosball table spot
Duds
Aqueduct maidens
Sad sacks
Removals from brackets
Some players in a zero-sum game
Those with holey pockets
Weepers' predecessors
Many in Las Vegas
Slow race runners
Jenga tower topplers
Winners' counterparts
Weepers, in a rhyme
They never win
Failures
. . . ____ weepers
Luckless sorts
Astros, in the 2021 World Series
Players who don't get the W
Spa winners?
Those who just can't win
Quiet group in the locker room
Dweebs
Postgame sulkers