Clues for the word "NEED"
We've had 313 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1598 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 12, 2025.
Definition of need
- n. - A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
- n. - Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- n. - That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
- n. - Situation of need; peril; danger.
- n. - To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- v. i. - To be wanted; to be necessary.
- adv. - Of necessity. See Needs.
Referring Clues
- Call for
- Welfare state?
- Exigency
- Financial aid criterion
- Requisite
- Require
- Distress
- Shortage
- Requirement
- Grant basis
- Difficulty, so to speak
- Lack
- Sine qua non
- Charity's calculation
- Indigence
- Poverty
- Be short of
- Can't do without
- "___ I say more?"
- Emergency
- Desideratum
- Penury
- Scholarship criterion
- Cry out for
- Straits
- Have to have
- Reason for a donation
- Craving
- What have-nots have
- Scholarship basis
- Essential
- Not just desire
- Bad straits
- Grant criterion, often
- It's more than a desire
- Must-have item
- Impecuniosity
- "No ___"
- Beggary
- "A friend in ___ is ..."
- Triage factor
- Must have
- Crave
- Must-have
- Addiction
- Scholarship consideration
- Want
- "___ a lift?"
- More than want
- Have an opening for
- Food, clothing, or shelter
- Compulsion
- Scholarship basis, sometimes
- On a ___-to-know basis
- Necessity
- "I ___ a drink!"
- Shortfall
- Indispensible item
- It's not optional
- Food or shelter, e.g.
- It may be urgent
- Grant consideration
- "All You ___ Is Love"
- Obligation
- Can't live without
- "What You ___" (1986 INXS hit)
- Financial aid factor
- Essential thing
- Aid basis, often
- Food or water, e.g.
- It's not an option
- Financial aid basis
- "All I ___": Jack Wagner hit
- Prerequisite
- If ___ be
- It may be pressing
- Be out of
- Duty
- Be without
- Pine for
- Absolute must
- No frill, this
- Can't be without
- It can be pressing
- "___ I say more?"
- "Mr. Watson ... I ___ you!" (A.G. Bell)
- Dearth
- More than desire
- Essential item
- "A friend in ___ is . . ."
- Be unable to function without
- Impoverishment
- State of misfortune
- Reason for some scholarships
- Urgent want
- Could really use
- Food, clothing or shelter
- Basic requirement
- Critical shortage
- More than merely want
- College aid consideration
- Triage consideration
- Suffer without
- ___-to-know basis
- Basis for financial aid
- Welfare factor
- Urgency
- Water, for all
- Really could use
- Demand
- Self-contained
- Destitution
- "Mr. Watson ... I ___ you!" (A.G. Bell)
- "All I ___": Jack Wagner hit
- If ___ be
- Can't give up
- Can't forgo
- "A friend in ___ is ..."
- Absolutely have to have
- Reason for some grants
- Aid criterion
- Have to get
- Be in want of
- The ___ for speed
- Financial-aid criterion
- Condition of misfortune
- Have occasion for
- Gotta have
- Got to have
- Aid consideration
- Aid factor
- Passport for foreign travel, e.g.
- Be lacking in
- Cry for
- Scholarship factor
- Paucity
- Imperative
- Must acquire
- Triage determination
- Scholarship basis, often
- "I ___ a vacation!"
- "___ a hand?" (helpful query)
- ___ I say more?
- Not just want
- Hunger for
- Grant factor
- Run short of
- Basis for many scholarships
- More than crave
- Don't just want
- Scholarship criterion, maybe
- Factor in some scholarships
- PBS's "___ to Know"
- More than just want
- Something essential
- Basis for some financial aid
- Mandatory item
- "people who ___ people..."
- Do more than want
- "___ I go on?"
- Privation
- Grant basis, at times
- "No ___ to apologize"
- "I ___ Your Love Tonight" ('59 Presley hit)
- Must-have thing
- Water, for most
- Deficiency
- Financial aid consideration
- Triage basis
- Triage criterion
- It's a must
- Attention, for some
- Food, shelter or clothing
- Basis of a scholarship
- Crying ___
- Desire
- Food or water
- Criterion for public assistance
- Food, air or water, e.g.
- Food or air
- Depend on
- Penurious state
- "No ___" ("I'm fine")
- "A friend in ___ is a friend indeed"
- Alicia Keys: "I ___ You"
- Lady Antebellum: "___ You Now"
- INXS "___ You Tonight"
- Nirvana "I ___ an easy friend. I do, with an ear to lend"
- "When I ___ you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you"
- 63-Across song "___ Your Lovin'"
- Grant basis, perhaps
- Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding "I ___ Your Love"
- The Weeknd "What You ___"
- Cut Copy "___ You Now"
- Rush "___ Some Love"
- Rick Astley "Whenever You ___ Somebody"
- "I ___ someone to love me the whole day through"
- Marc Anthony "I ___ to Know"
- Killers "And my affection, well it comes and goes, I ___ direction to perfection"
- John Mayer "Say what you ___ to say"
- Korn "___ To"
- "Say (All I ___)" OneRepublic
- Want to handle dough while talking
- Born and died in poverty
- Want half of mine to go to the boy
- Born at Land's End, in poverty
- Want to embed the point in the wrong end
- Just what you want when heartlessly nettled!
- Want to take part in "2"
- Born at the back of beyond, in poverty
- See 2
- Miss Elizabeth enters study doing a pirouette
- Call
- Shortage of nitrogen up-river
- Want - require(ment)
- Lack, on the one hand, all the conclusions
- Born in Paris, died in penury
- Want to work with the hands, say
- They say massage is essential
- Work with fingers said to be requirement
- Hardship
- Have-not's condition
- Extreme poverty
- Something one has to have
- Died - to have been born first is a requirement
- Want to give maiden name to daughter
- Want daughter to be born first
- Rely on
- Require man to grasp point
- Requirement of female born to daughter
- Speaker's massage requirement?
- Require last of wine in study to be brought over
- Want work, by the sound of it
- Born and died in poverty(4)
- Want change of polarity in 13
- Poor's plight
- Something you require when heartlessly nettled
- "___ for Speed" (racing game series)
- Feel the lack of
- Must obtain
- Born on the first of December, in poverty
- Must get
- Have requirements
- Morning coffee, for many
- What's lacking ultimately in Providence, Rhode Island
- The necessity for a northeastern edition
- Have (to)
- What's wanted ultimately when one made good?
- Basis for charitable donations
- Born and died as Miss
- Grant factor, often
- Water, food or air
- "Being so great, I have no ___ to beg": "King Richard II"
- "We ___ to talk"
- Basis for some grants
- Some magazine editor's requirement
- It's mandatory
- Lack the one edition that includes it
- Beg for
- Basis of some scholarships
- Grant factor, sometimes
- Food is a basic one
- Basis for some scholarships
- Want's relative
- Kitchen, for a chef
- Financial aid basis, usually
- Want to turn the key to enter the home
- Grant criterion
- Water, e.g., for a plant
- Bargaining point that's nonnegotiable
- Couple
- Be sorely lacking in
- Desperately require
- Want number associated with topless act
- It may be crying
- Requirement when born at a dead end
- It's not merely a yen
- Name on both "The Simpsons" and "South Park"
- Water or light, for a plant
- Thing to fulfill
- One in Maslow's hierarchy
- Want to return home, having the key to get in
- One might be pressing
- Must
- Seriously require
- "I ___ a nap!"
- Absolutely require
- What a shortage suggests
- Big ask, sometimes
- "Everything I ___" (Melissa Ferrick song)
- Lawyer, for a defendant, typically
- What air is not for an anaerobe
- "___ a lift?"
- Not a want but a ___
- Simply must have
- Just have to have
- Require desperately
- "___ You Tonight"
- Not want but ...
- Sun, for a sunflower
- The requirement to be less than knee deep
- Desperate straits
- More than a want
- Grant consideration, sometimes
- Nonnegotiable thing
- Absolutely must have
- ___-blind admission
- "I must have that"
- "___ I go on?"
- "___ a hand?"
- Insufficiency
- "... should the ___ arise"
- Critical item
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 10, 2025
- LA Times - December 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 30, 2025
- LA Times - November 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2025
- New York Times - November 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 29, 2025
- New York Times - September 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2025
- LA Times - September 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 03, 2025
- Daily American - September 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 16, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 12, 2025
- Daily American - August 07, 2025
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