Clues for the word "LOSS"
We've had 243 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 519 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 10, 2026.
Definition of loss
- v. t. - The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
- v. t. - The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
- v. t. - That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
- v. t. - The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
- v. t. - Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.
- v. t. - Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.
- v. t. - Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
- v. t. - Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.
Referring Clues
- Any Buffalo Bills Super Bowl result
- Subject for an insurance company
- Win's opposite
- L's meaning, sometimes
- Impairment
- What "L" stands for in box scores
- Business concern
- What red ink represents
- What red ink indicates
- Match disappointment
- Red ink amount
- Erosion
- Standings stat
- See 34-Across
- Kind of column
- Profit's opposite
- Surety concern
- Red ink entry
- Result of a sack
- Nonprofit?
- Write-off
- Firm fear
- Amount printed in red ink
- Outcome of a 10-17 game
- Destruction
- Defeat
- Red-ink figure
- Gambling result, usually
- Gain offsetter
- Property damage, to an insurer
- Insurance claim amount
- Insurance claim
- Leader leader?
- Insurance subject
- Forfeiture
- Profit's partner?
- Another's gain?
- Dieter's hope
- Cause of negative earnings-per-share
- Bottom-line negative
- Balance sheet entry in red
- Gain's offset
- Cause of grief
- Bottom-line bummer
- Parenthesized entry
- Red ink figure
- Something to mourn
- Election defeat
- See 32 Down
- Adjuster's issue
- Gridiron setback
- Tax write-off
- At a ___ for words
- Insured's report
- End of a winning streak
- Cause for an insurance claim
- Minus, on a balance sheet
- A no-win situation?
- Win alternative
- Deprivation
- Insurance company concern
- Negative entry
- Balance sheet deduction
- Sports page column
- Half a financial statement
- Game not won
- Disappointing finish
- Leader leader
- It spoils hot streaks
- Insurance adjuster's concern
- Profit's partner
- Perfect-record breaker
- Half a financial statement?
- Dieter's triumph
- Red ink
- Portfolio setback
- Dieter's goal
- Detriment
- Insurance concern
- Sum in red
- At a ___ for words
- "L," in box scores
- Death
- Item in the debit column
- Stock market reverse
- Item in the debit column
- Financial setback
- At a ___ for words (speechless)
- Cause of silence in the locker room
- It prevents a win-win situation
- Team setback
- Red-ink amount
- Privation
- Victory's opposite
- Winning-streak ender
- Red-ink entry
- Setback
- Profit and ___
- Bereavement
- Bad outcome for the home team
- Playoff disappointment
- Nonprofit situation
- Dieter's progress
- Figure in red
- Bottom-line concern
- Basis for many a claim
- Team statistic
- Sports team's setback
- Dieter's gain?
- Grief counselor's subject
- Insurance policy contingency
- Bad news for the home team
- Profit's antithesis
- Failed investment
- Reason for a tax deduction, maybe
- Profit's other side
- Fan's disappointment
- At a ___ (puzzled)
- Minus money
- Stockholder's concern
- Dieter's win?
- Grief cause
- Profit's counterpart
- Opposite of profit
- Financial reverse
- It may be insured
- Tax ___
- Net ___
- Unfavorable result
- Parenthetical figure, often
- Team's setback
- Standings setback
- Investor's concern
- It's not for a winner
- Casualty, e.g.
- Streak breaker, maybe
- It can be written off in April
- Can be written off in April
- What much insurance covers
- Declination
- Sports defeat
- Quarterback's setback
- Victory for a dieter
- Investor's woe
- Standings column
- Sports stat
- Negative profit
- Non-victory
- It can end a winning streak
- Winning streak spoiler
- If it's not a win, it's a ___
- Gambler's woe
- Deficit
- Coping subject
- Opposite of a win
- Opposite of a victory
- Basis for a claim
- Tour's red ink amount
- Basis for an insurance claim
- Negative Biohazard song?
- Recording costs, before sales
- '92 Lou Reed album "Magic and ___"
- Star's death, to fan
- Failure to profit or succeed
- Colossal wastage of coal?
- Of blossom, it may be due to high winds
- Team discourager
- Negative net
- Defeat - deprivation
- Bereavement a second after sunrise
- This may be deductible
- Sports page statistic
- Negative balance
- Superfan's disappointment
- Tax-form write-off
- Sad end of 18's workplace on the river
- See 3
- [Failure to see ship]
- Red figures on a balance sheet or ledger
- Destruction caused by bug shaken off plant
- Box score L
- Playoff heartbreak
- Effect of erosion
- Team disappointment
- Spreadsheet amount shown in parentheses
- Not a victory
- An overtime one counts as a point in the N.H.L.
- Diet progress
- Insurance estimate
- Figure in red ink
- One might be written off
- Perfect season spoiler
- Win -___ record
- Result of a sack, in football
- Blot on a pitcher's record
- Datum for the second column
- Victim's feeling
- Red number
- Monetary setback
- Leader leader?
- L's meaning, in box scores
- Misplacement
- It's often covered by insurance
- Colossal lack of coal?
- Dow downturn
- The "1" of 10-1, say
- Result of a poor investment
- Parenthetical amount
- Disappointing game result
- L
- Red ink indication
- Financial figure in parentheses
- Fiscal disappointment
- P&L part
- Wall Street woe
- In coal, the deficit would be enormous
- Bad investment outcome
- Result of being the 5 in a 9-5 final score
- Certain tax write-off
- Cause for a claim
- L in a box score
- See 68-Across
- Colossal wastage of coal?
- Stat in standings
- The "1" in a 15-1 record
- Spoiler of a perfect record
- "I'm at a ___ for words"
- Game result that's not a win or a tie
- "L" on a scoreboard
- "Your ___"
- U-turn from profit
- Profit opposite
- L, on a league table
- Result of coming in second to the winner
- Bad news for an investor
- A win? No, sorry.
- Result of a bad investment
- Concern in data transmission
- Amount printed in red
- In coal, this waste is enormous
- The "1" of 3-1-4, say
- A 2-1 record has one
- Source of grief
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 10, 2026
- LA Times - February 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2025
- LA Times - December 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 21, 2025
- New York Times - October 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 10, 2025
- Daily American - September 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 28, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- Daily American - July 20, 2025
- Daily American - July 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2025
- Daily American - May 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2025
- New York Times - May 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 31, 2025
- New York Times - March 18, 2025
- New York Times - February 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 20, 2024
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