The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NEED , but the solution may also be WANT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Lack crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NEED | 48 % | 4 |
| DEARTH | 16 % | 6 |
| WANT | 13 % | 4 |
| ABSENCE | 13 % | 7 |
| HAVENT | 2 % | 6 |
| SHORTAGE | 1 % | 8 |
| BEINNEEDOF | 1 % | 10 |
| REQUIRE | 1 % | 7 |
| MEAGERNESS | 1 % | 10 |
| SCARCENESS | 1 % | 10 |
| HAVENOT | 1 % | 7 |
Why may WANT be the right solution?
The word "want" can be used as a synonym for "lack", as in lacking something that is needed or desired.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lack
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- deficiency
- miss
- want
- insufficient
- insufficiency
- deficient
- deficit
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- shortcoming
- failure
- unsatisfactory
Crossword Answer definitions
NEED noun- A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- To have an absolute requirement for.
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- To be required; to be necessary.
- To be necessary (to someone).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result DEARTH
More clues leading to the result WANT
- Fancy
- Thirst for
- Word on an Uncle Sam poster
- Entry on a wish list
- Have a hankering
- Have one's heart set on
- Hanker for
- Verb in a letter to Santa
- Needy condition
- Be deficient in
More clues leading to the result ABSENCE
- Issue for Marco Rubio, vis-a-vis his Senate voting
- Attendance-book notation
- "___ sharpens love, presence strengthens it" (Ben Franklin)
- Nonappearance
- Truant's offense
- Failure to show up
- Lack
- Truancy
- Fondness intensifier?
- It makes the heart grow fonder, they say
More clues leading to the result HAVENT
- Ain't got
- Answer, part 2
- "I __ a clue!"
- "__ the foggiest!"
- Lack, briefly
- "__ we met?"
- "You ___ changed a bit."
- Negative verb form.
- Verbal contraction.
- Common verbal contraction.
More clues leading to the result SHORTAGE
- Deficiency
- Scarcity
- Trouble in the till
- Dearth
- Insufficient supply
- Deficit.
- Limited supply.
- Lack.
- Deficit
- Want