| Mr. Wrong? | 10 |
| Mondale on Nov. 6, 1984 | 23 |
| McDowell or Pope, at Bull Run | 29 |
| Luckless fellow | 15 |
| Locker room sulker | 18 |
| Last one in | 11 |
| 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 |
| Cornwallis at Yorktown | 22 |
| Consolation-prize recipient | 27 |
| Cleveland in the '94 World Series | 38 |
| Carthage, in the Punic Wars | 27 |
| Carter vis-Ã -vis Reagan | 26 |
| Burgoyne at Saratoga | 20 |
| Born follower | 13 |
| Born ___ (schlemiel) | 20 |
| Born __ | 7 |
| Bested one | 10 |
| Beck's first smash | 22 |
| Beck's breakthrough hit | 27 |
| Beck's breakout hit | 23 |
| Beck song with the lyric "Soy un perdedor" | 52 |
| Beck hit with the lyric "So why don't you kill me?" | 65 |
| Bad-luck guy | 12 |
| 2000 Jason Biggs comedy-romance | 31 |
| 'The Biggest --' | 24 |
| Also-rans | 9 |
| Hapless ones | 12 |
| Defeated ones | 13 |
| Traditional weepers | 19 |
| They weep | 9 |
| Successful dieters | 18 |
| Short-straw drawers | 19 |
| Sandburg poem | 13 |
| Perennial failures | 18 |
| Many in Las Vegas | 17 |
| ''. . . ____ weepers'' | 39 |
| Winners' opposites | 22 |
| Weight Watchers patrons | 23 |
| Weepers' predecessors | 25 |
| Unsuccessful types | 18 |
| Ties don't have them | 24 |
| Those with holey pockets | 24 |
| Things that ties never have | 27 |
| They'll never show up in the first place | 44 |
| They may be sore after a game | 29 |
| They aren't champs | 22 |
| Quiet group in the locker room | 30 |
| Proverbial weepers | 18 |
| Poem by Sandburg | 16 |
| Outdistanced ones | 17 |
| Misfits | 7 |
| Low cards, usually | 18 |
| Certain bridge cards | 20 |
| Misplaces | 9 |
| Wastes | 6 |
| Squanders | 9 |
| Forfeits | 8 |
| Comes in last | 13 |
| Takes a dive | 12 |
| Finishes last | 13 |
| Comes up short | 14 |
| Comes in second | 15 |
| Meets one's Waterloo | 24 |
| Diets successfully | 18 |
| Mislays | 7 |
| Gets licked | 11 |
| Allows to get away | 18 |
| Suffers defeat | 14 |
| Manages to elude | 16 |
| Is defeated | 11 |
| Gets whupped | 12 |
| Finishes second | 15 |
| Takes it on the chin | 20 |
| Shakes, so to speak | 19 |
| Shakes, as a tail | 17 |
| Places last | 11 |
| Is deprived of | 14 |
| Goes down to defeat | 19 |
| Finishes a close second | 23 |
| Falls short, in points | 22 |
| Fails to show | 13 |
| Fails to retain | 15 |
| Fails to prevail | 16 |
| Emulates most Las Vegas visitors | 32 |
| Emulates many Las Vegas visitors | 32 |
| Blows, perhaps | 14 |
| Becomes an also-ran | 19 |
| "Poirot ___ a Client": Christie | 41 |
| Wins the battle of the bulge, ironically | 40 |
| What second place at battle of the bands does | 45 |