Lacking
Crossword Clue and Answers

Looking for answers to the "Lacking" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 25 crossword solutions for Lacking.

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

We deem Lacking to be a VERY COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it more than 25 times in a variety of crossword publications.

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Publications

  • Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 6 Nov 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Thursday, 11 Mar 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 23 Jan 2021
  • The New York Times Crossword - Wednesday, 24 Jun 2020
  • The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 24 Nov 2019
  • The New York Times Crossword - Wednesday, 9 Oct 2019
  • The New York Times Crossword - Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

Crossword Answers

3 letters

SHY
A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"

4 letters

SANS

LESS
(usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

5 letters

NEEDY
Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

OUTOF

SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

OUTOF
Motivated by; "idleness is the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work"

MINUS
An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

6 letters

INNEED

VOIDOF

BAREOF

SCARCE
Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

ABSENT
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

DEVOID
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

FREEOF

7 letters

NEEDING

MISSING
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

SHORTOF

WITHOUT

WANTING
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

8 letters

INWANTOF

INNEEDOF

9 letters

DEFICIENT
Falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

10 letters

INADEQUATE
Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"

13 letters

INSHORTSUPPLY