Lack
Crossword Clue and Answers

Looking for answers to the "Lack" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 16 crossword solutions for Lack.

We most recently saw this clue in Irish Independent - Simple.

We deem Lack to be a VERY COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it more than 16 times in a variety of crossword publications.

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Publications

  • Irish Independent - Simple - Tuesday, 23 Nov 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Thursday, 11 Nov 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Friday, 24 Sep 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Tuesday, 7 Sep 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 1 May 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Saturday, 27 Feb 2021
  • The New York Times Crossword - Friday, 13 Nov 2020
  • The Mirror Classic - Thursday, 24 Sep 2020
  • The New York Times Crossword - Tuesday, 2 Jul 2019
  • The Guardian Quick - Thursday, 13 Jun 2019

Crossword Answers

4 letters

NEED
The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

WANT
Anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"

MISS
A failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

6 letters

DEARTH
An insufficient quantity or number

HAVENT

7 letters

SHYNESS
A feeling of fear of embarrassment

DEFICIT
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing

REQUIRE
Make someone do something

HAVENOT

ABSENCE
Failure to be present

8 letters

SCARCITY
A small and inadequate amount

SHORTAGE
An acute insufficiency

9 letters

SHORTFALL
The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"

10 letters

DEFICIENCY
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"

SCANTINESS
The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

13 letters

INSUFFICIENCY
(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally