| Hapless sorts |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Mar 2026 |
| Exchange roles with singular no-hopers (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
31 Jan 2026 |
| Defeated contestants (6) |
Mirror Quick |
31 Jan 2026 |
| They are beaten less, or flogged (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
29 Jan 2026 |
| Also-rans |
LA Times Daily |
31 Oct 2025 |
| Runners-up |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jul 2025 |
| Do they keep to the beaten track? (6) |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jul 2025 |
| Opposite of winners (6) |
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| Victors' opposite |
Commuter |
09 May 2025 |
| They can't win so are left with the roses (6) |
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| Large roses ordered for beaten contestants |
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| Ones who suffer defeat |
Commuter |
03 Mar 2025 |
| Locker room sulkers |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Mar 2025 |
| Sorry sorts |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Feb 2025 |
| Ne'er-do-wells |
Newsday |
01 Jan 2025 |
| They don't win less - or they might (6) |
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| Defeated team |
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| Beaten players (6) |
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| Lucky ___ (tennis players who get called up to play in a tournament) |
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| Student arranged roses for runners-up |
Mirror Cryptic |
03 Nov 2024 |
| Behold queen aboard ship with no-hopers |
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| Defeated contestants (6) |
Mirror Quick |
03 Nov 2024 |
| Speculators do not act up for the vanquished ... (6) |
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| Unlucky contestants |
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| Weepers, in an adage |
Newsday |
29 Sep 2024 |
| The defeated participants in races resolutely stood up (6) |
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| Victor isn't among them (6) |
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| People who get pulled over the line in tug-of-war, e.g. |
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| They can't be accused of profiteering! (6) |
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| Second-person plural? |
LA Times Daily |
22 Jun 2024 |
| Players who don't get the W |
USA Today |
04 Jun 2024 |
| Defeated players |
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| Defeated people |
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| Have they no winning ways? (6) |
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| Unsuccessful contestants (6) |
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| Persons destined to fail |
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| They come in last |
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| Defeated competitors (6) |
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| They get an inadequate score - or less! (6) |
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| Do they keep to the beaten track? |
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| Last in races |
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| Ne'er-do-wells |
Commuter |
06 Dec 2023 |
| Not winners |
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| They never win |
Universal |
10 Nov 2023 |
| Duds |
New York Times |
08 Jun 2023 |
| Duo who have to give up their foosball table spot |
New York Times |
22 Oct 2022 |
| Astros, in the 2021 World Series |
USA Today |
07 Oct 2022 |
| Also-rans |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Aug 2022 |
| Also-rans |
Premier Sunday |
12 Jun 2022 |
| Also-rans |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Ne’er-do-wells |
New York Times |
02 Jan 2022 |
| People who play paper against scissors, e.g |
Universal |
17 Dec 2021 |
| Proverbial weepers |
Universal |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Jenga tower topplers |
USA Today |
24 Aug 2021 |
| Weepers, in a rhyme |
Universal |
22 May 2021 |
| Winners' counterparts |
USA Today |
28 Apr 2021 |
| No-hopers played lacrosse losing match regularly |
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| 'Finders keepers, ___ weepers' |
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| Those who don't win |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Nov 2020 |
| Failures of devotees accepting second in place of victory |
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| Sad sacks |
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| Some mountaineers resolve to climb? They're not successful |
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| Schnooks |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Nov 2019 |
| They're unsuccessful |
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| Opens 8 across to empty RDS of the total failures |
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| Also-rans |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Jun 2019 |
| Successful dieters |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2018 |
| Total failures |
LA Times Daily |
24 Sep 2018 |
| Total failures |
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| Slow race runners |
Universal |
26 Aug 2018 |
| They're defeated |
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| Luckless sorts |
USA Today |
03 Jun 2018 |
| Zeros |
New York Times |
15 Apr 2018 |
| People who fail in ambitious resolutions turning up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Apr 2018 |
| Total failures |
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| Zeros |
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| Slow race runners |
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| Luckless sorts |
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| Also-rans |
Thomas Joseph |
19 May 2017 |
| Defeated ones |
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| Sad sacks |
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| See 26-Down |
New York Times |
14 Jan 2016 |
| See 26-Down |
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| Schlemiels |
New York Times |
05 Apr 2015 |
| Less resolution after setback? They'll show that in part |
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| Failures |
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| Consolation prize recipients |
Universal |
04 Jan 2015 |
| Consolation prize recipients |
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| Schlemiels |
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| Successful dieters |
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| Defeated ones |
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| Ne'er-do-wells |
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| Things that ties never have |
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| Also-rans |
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| Short-straw drawers |
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| Also-rans |
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| Many in Las Vegas |
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| Failures (and in another way, a hint to 17-, 27-, 44- and 57-Across) |
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| They may be sore after a game |
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| Winners' opposites |
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| Failures (and in another way, a hint to 17-, 27-, 44- and 57-Across) |
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| Quiet group in the locker room |
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| Ties don't have them |
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| They aren't champs |
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| They aren't champs |
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| Dweebs |
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| Also-rans |
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| Flops |
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| Hapless ones |
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| Unsuccessful types |
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| Unsuccessful types |
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| Aqueduct maidens |
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| Also-rans |
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| Perennial failures |
|
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| The majority of Vegas visitors |
|
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| Consolation-prize winners |
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| Successful dieters |
|
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| ". . . ____ weepers" |
|
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| Spa winners? |
|
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| Successful dieters |
|
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| Schlemiels |
|
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| They weep |
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| They weep |
|
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| Consolation prize recipients |
|
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| Also-rans |
|
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| Misfits |
|
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| Also-rans |
|
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| Weepers? |
|
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| Those with holey pockets |
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| Recipients of "lovely parting gifts" |
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| Weepers' predecessors |
|
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| Short-straw drawers |
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| They weep |
|
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| Hopeless cases |
|
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| Failures |
|
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| Also-rans |
|
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| Ne'er-do-wells |
|
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| Also-rans |
|
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| Poem by Sandburg |
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| Sandburg poem |
|
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| Proverbial weepers |
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| Outdistanced ones |
|
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| Low cards, usually |
|
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| Traditional weepers |
|
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| Certain bridge cards |
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| Bag-holders. |
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| Unsuccessful fighters. |
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| Weight Watchers patrons |
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| Silky Sullivan and others. |
|
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| Hard-luck players. |
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| Forfeiters. |
|
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| The "outs." |
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| Dodgers, in 1949 and 1952 World Series. |
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| Last ones in. |
|
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| The outs. |
|
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| Underdogs. |
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| Unlucky ones. |
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| Some weepers. |
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| Unlucky players. |
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| Also rans. |
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| Also-rans. |
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