Referring Clues

• Vanquished
• Schlemiel
• Not a medalist
• See 143-Down
• Short-straw drawer
• Good sport, perhaps
• Schlimazel
• Dweeb
• The one with 0 in 7-0
• Terse putdown
• Dewey, to Truman
• Doofus
• One who doesn't go past a semi?
• Sad sack
• Bottom dog
• Deadbeat
• Sore person?
• Also-ran
• Perry Mason, only once
• Misfit
• Stock that drops in value
• Hapless one
• Naked strip poker player, e.g.
• Runner-up
• Beck hit with the lyric "So why don't you kill me?"
• Successful dieter
• Born ___
• Unsuccessful trophy seeker
• Flop
• Mr. Wrong?
• Last-place finisher
• Defeated one
• Sore one, maybe
• Luckless one
• Jerk
• Person trying to smile at an awards show
• Short straw drawer, e.g.
• Typical Las Vegas gambler
• Place or show horse
• Habitual failure
• Consistent failure
• A weeper, according to a saying
• He may be sore
• Perennial last-place finisher
• One who weeps, in a saying
• Short straw drawer
• 36-Down, notably
• #2 or #3
• Goes down to defeat
• Unfortunate fellow
• Consolation prize recipient
• He can't get a break
• #2 or #3, say
• Born ___
• "The Biggest ___"
• 2000 Jason Biggs comedy-romance
• Strip poker player in the buff, e.g.
• Runner-up in a race
• Willy Loman, classically
• Person faking a smile at an awards show
• Failure
• "The Biggest ___" show(5)
• Chump
• Hard-luck case
• Come in second, say?
• Dangerfield persona
• Dangerfield persona
• Who the jury voted against
• Pathetic person
• 'The Biggest ___'
• Charlie Brown, typically
• Winner's victim
• Ne'er-do-well
• Last one in
• Like one who is 52-Down
• One who can't catch a break
• Tool
• Defeated rival
• The hare, notably
• Hopeless guy
• Weeper, proverbially
• One who finishes last
• Taunting word
• One not allowed in the winners' circle
• Runner-up, essentially
• One who fails repeatedly
• Defeated contestant
• Many a casino visitor
• Sore sort, maybe
• X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g.
• 'The Biggest '
• Hapless sort
• Schlub
• Defeated candidate
• One finishing second
• Hard luck case
• Put-down from Donald Trump
• One finishing second?
• Person defeated
• Short-straw picker
• Luckless sort
• Unlucky gambler
• Sore ___
• Jockey, often
• One not getting an Olympic medal
• Olympian who doesn't medal
• Last place finisher, obviously
• Usually disappointed one
• Dud
• Unlucky one
• What a two-fingered "L" represents
• Deadbeat, e.g.
• Schiemiel
• Player over 21, perhaps
• Beck song with the lyric "Soy un perdedor"
• Defeated competitor
• Last-place placer
• Beck's breakthrough hit
• Beck's first smash
• Early Beck smash
• No-hoper
• Someone who fails consistently
• He doesn't keep changing roles
• A failure in new roles
• One who is always unsuccessful
• Proverbially, one who hesitates
• Not the best man for new roles?
• A failure as a keeper
• See some service that will never be any good?
• Not the winner
• Contestant who lacked resolution in returning?
• On reflection one's not quite resolute enough
• Beaten competitor
• One who cannot keep switching roles
• Tiepolo's Eros is in part a failure
• Unsuccessful person
• It's said John's a failure
• Also-ran won't start to get closer
• Runner defeated in close race
• No-hoper could be changing roles
• About sunup he had to admit defeat
• In various roles one is unlikely to succeed
• Terminator's head blown off by tail-ender
• Beck hit of 1993
• Down-on-one's-luck sort
• One doesn't succeed in close race
• Vanquished person
• Unsuccessful person held back by irresolution
• Slacker dropping out first - he's sure to fail
• No-hoper left Rose in distress
• No-hoper, not as far away after leader's gone
• No-hoper's not as far away once leader's fallen
• The author's one taking all unexpectedly
• Failure stood leaderless between political wings
• Juvenile put-down
• Postgame sulker
• One held back by irresolution?
• Defeated person
• No-hoper with dreadful roles
• '90s Beck hit
• Any of three semifinalists, eventually
• 28-Down's opposite
• Luckless fellow
• Drawer of the short straw
• Cornwallis, at Yorktown
• Many a gambler
• One who can't 21-Down
• He can't keep changing roles!
• One defeated when swapping roles
• Postgame moper
• Not the best man for tricky roles?
• Last-place finisher, e.g.
• Victor's opposition to new roles
• Jenga tower toppler, e.g.
• One snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, say
• Nonwinner
• The hare, to the tortoise
• Not a winner
• Paper, vis-à-vis scissors
• The hare, in "The Tortoise and the Hare"
• Unsuccessful competitor
• Checkmated chess player, for example
• Not the best man for new roles?
• Second or third person?
• Schlump
• Being a failure left Rose in a mess
• One who draws the short straw
• Player who topples the Jenga tower
• Contestant who lacked resolution in returning?
• One who failed to win new roles
• 1993 Beck single
• What two fingers in the shape of an "L" can mean
• Fabled hare, e.g.
• Who pays all legal costs under the so-called "English rule"
• Last one to cross the finish line