Lacking
Crossword Clue and Answers
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We most recently saw this clue in Irish Independent - Simple.
We deem Lacking to be a VERY COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it more than 25 times in a variety of crossword publications.
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Publications
- Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 6 Nov 2021
- Irish Independent - Simple - Thursday, 11 Mar 2021
- Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 23 Jan 2021
- The New York Times Crossword - Wednesday, 24 Jun 2020
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 24 Nov 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Wednesday, 9 Oct 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Thursday, 9 Aug 2018
Crossword Answers
3 letters
SHY
A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"
4 letters
LESS
(usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
5 letters
NEEDY
Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"
OUTOF
SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
OUTOF
Motivated by; "idleness is the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work"
MINUS
An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
6 letters
INNEED
VOIDOF
BAREOF
SCARCE
Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
ABSENT
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
DEVOID
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
FREEOF
7 letters
MISSING
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
SHORTOF
WANTING
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
8 letters
INWANTOF
INNEEDOF
9 letters
DEFICIENT
Falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
10 letters
INADEQUATE
Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"
13 letters
INSHORTSUPPLY