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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Do they keep to the beaten track? (6) |
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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' |
The Washington Post Sunday |
14 Feb 2021 |
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 |
The New Yorker |
04 May 2020 |
Some mountaineers resolve to climb? They're not successful |
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Schnooks |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Nov 2019 |
They're unsuccessful |
Irish Times Simplex |
09 Nov 2019 |
Opens 8 across to empty RDS of the total failures |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 Oct 2019 |
Also-rans |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Jun 2019 |
Successful dieters |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2018 |
Total failures |
The Washington Post |
24 Sep 2018 |
Total failures |
LA Times Daily |
24 Sep 2018 |
Slow race runners |
Universal |
26 Aug 2018 |
They're defeated |
Irish Times Simplex |
13 Jun 2018 |
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 |
Zeros |
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Slow race runners |
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Total failures |
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Luckless sorts |
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Also-rans |
Thomas Joseph |
19 May 2017 |
Defeated ones |
Canadiana |
04 Jul 2016 |
Sad sacks |
The Washington Post |
06 Mar 2016 |
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 |
Canadiana |
12 Jan 2015 |
Consolation prize recipients |
Universal |
04 Jan 2015 |
Schlemiels |
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Consolation prize recipients |
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Ne'er-do-wells |
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Things that ties never have |
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Successful dieters |
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Defeated ones |
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Also-rans |
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Also-rans |
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Short-straw drawers |
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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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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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Many in Las Vegas |
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They aren't champs |
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They aren't champs |
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Ties don't have them |
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Quiet group in the locker room |
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Also-rans |
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Dweebs |
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Flops |
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Aqueduct maidens |
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Unsuccessful types |
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Perennial failures |
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Unsuccessful types |
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Also-rans |
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Hapless ones |
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The majority of Vegas visitors |
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Successful dieters |
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". . . ____ weepers" |
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Spa winners? |
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Consolation-prize 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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Misfits |
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Also-rans |
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Consolation prize recipients |
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Weepers? |
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Also-rans |
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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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Hopeless cases |
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Short-straw drawers |
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They weep |
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Failures |
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Ne'er-do-wells |
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Also-rans |
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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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Also-rans. |
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Some weepers. |
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Unlucky ones. |
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The "outs." |
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Unlucky players. |
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Underdogs. |
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The outs. |
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Last ones in. |
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Forfeiters. |
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Hard-luck players. |
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Silky Sullivan and others. |
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Also rans. |
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Dodgers, in 1949 and 1952 World Series. |
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Bag-holders. |
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Unsuccessful fighters. |
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Weight Watchers patrons |
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