The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DEARTH , but the solution may also be NEED which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Shortage crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DEARTH | 30 % | 6 |
| NEED | 28 % | 4 |
| LACK | 25 % | 4 |
| WANT | 10 % | 4 |
| DEFICIT | 5 % | 7 |
| DEFICIENCY | 3 % | 10 |
Why may NEED be the right solution?
The answer "NEED" fits the clue "Shortage" because a shortage implies a lack or deficiency of something, indicating a need for more of that particular item or resource.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shortage
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- deficit
- dearth
- famine
- shortfall
- deficiency
- poor
- deficient
- poverty
- insufficiency
- penury
- inadequacy
- lack
Crossword Answer definitions
DEARTH noun- A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
- (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
- Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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 DEARTH
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 LACK
- Be caught short
- Be in need of
- Absence
- Ain't got
- Deficiency
- Paucity
- Shortfall
- Be deficient in
- Are deficient in
- 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 DEFICIT
- Surplus's opposite
- Shortage
- Budget problem
- Budgetary concern
- Budgetary shortage
- It means "there is lacking," in Latin.
- Budget problem.
- Figure in red.
- Fiscal problem
- Perennial government concern