| Text | Length |
| Short straw drawer | 18 |
| Pathetic person | 15 |
| Consistent failure | 18 |
| Vanquished one | 14 |
| Unfortunate fellow | 18 |
| Place or show horse | 19 |
| Not a medalist | 14 |
| McGovern, in 1972 | 17 |
| Beck hit of 1993 | 16 |
| Word with sore | 14 |
| Winner's victim | 19 |
| Weeper, in saying | 17 |
| Weeper, in adage | 16 |
| Traditional weeper | 18 |
| Terse putdown | 13 |
| T.K.O. victim, e.g. | 19 |
| Sore one, maybe | 15 |
| Runner-up in a race | 19 |
| Proverbial weeper | 17 |
| One might be sore | 17 |
| Luckless fellow | 15 |
| Locker room sulker | 18 |
| Humphrey, in 1968 | 17 |
| Hopeless guy | 12 |
| Hard-luck case | 14 |
| Habitual failure | 16 |
| Good sport, perhaps | 19 |
| Fortune's fool | 18 |
| Ford in 1976 | 12 |
| Dewey, to Truman | 16 |
| Defeated rival | 14 |
| Defeated pitcher | 16 |
| Defeated contestant | 19 |
| Born follower | 13 |
| Bad-luck guy | 12 |
| Hapless ones | 12 |
| Defeated ones | 13 |
| Traditional weepers | 19 |
| Successful dieters | 18 |
| Short-straw drawers | 19 |
| Sandburg poem | 13 |
| Perennial failures | 18 |
| Many in Las Vegas | 17 |
| Unsuccessful types | 18 |
| Proverbial weepers | 18 |
| Poem by Sandburg | 16 |
| Outdistanced ones | 17 |
| Low cards, usually | 18 |
| Comes in last | 13 |
| Takes a dive | 12 |
| Finishes last | 13 |
| Comes up short | 14 |
| Comes in second | 15 |
| Diets successfully | 18 |
| Allows to get away | 18 |
| Suffers defeat | 14 |
| Manages to elude | 16 |
| Gets whupped | 12 |
| Finishes second | 15 |
| Shakes, so to speak | 19 |
| Shakes, as a tail | 17 |
| Is deprived of | 14 |
| Goes down to defeat | 19 |
| Fails to show | 13 |
| Fails to retain | 15 |
| Fails to prevail | 16 |
| Blows, perhaps | 14 |
| Becomes an also-ran | 19 |
| Takes the count | 15 |
| Takes a licking | 15 |
| Takes a drubbing | 16 |
| Suffers defeats | 15 |
| Outdistances | 12 |
| Misses out on | 13 |
| Leaves in the dust | 18 |
| Is schneidered | 14 |
| Is outscored | 12 |
| Has confiscated | 15 |
| Gets nosed out | 14 |
| Gets knocked off | 16 |
| Flips out with it | 18 |
| Doesn't find | 16 |
| Comes up short, say | 19 |
| Comes out last | 14 |
| Blows the game | 14 |
| Goes apeshit | 12 |
| Comes undone | 12 |
| Is defeated by | 14 |
| Gets defeated by | 16 |
| Is vanquished by | 16 |
| Is routed by, say | 17 |
| Is routed by | 12 |
| Is bested by | 12 |
| Is beaten by | 12 |
| Gets bounced by | 15 |
| Comes in behind | 15 |
| Fall short in votes | 19 |
| Fail to get in | 14 |
| Finish behind | 13 |
| Be defeated by | 14 |
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