Shortage Crossword Clue

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Shortage Crossword Answer

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SCARCITY

(8 letters)

NEED

(4 letters)

DEARTH

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. be without
(noun)
1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SHORTAGE (noun)
1. an acute insufficiency
2. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

SCARCITY
(8 letters)
NEED
(4 letters)
DEARTH
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
CALK

More Universal Crossword (3/28/2025) Answers

Across

1. Additional schoolwork?

5. Computer pioneer Lovelace

8. Festivals famous for fried food

13. "Now you're talking!"

17. "... but nothing has changed"

18. Objectives

19. Jedi High Council leader

20. DC villain Luthor

21. "Unimpressed, sorry"

22. "___ is a Woman" (Ariana Grande hit )

23. Word on a penny

24. Fibbed

26. Stickers in art class?

29. Nile biter

30. Fish in an unagi roll

31. Boxer's combination

34. Event that begins each Iditarod

38. Fell (over)

39. ___/her

40. Spanish uncle

41. One may be half off

43. ___ Curry, younger brother of Steph

44. Norse god with a horse named Sleipnir

46. Rep.s opponent

47. Vintage film channel

48. Carried out

49. Give for a bit

51. Came about

54. Breakfast roll with myriad toppings

58. Texas NBA team that Victor Wembanyama plays for

59. Court reporter, for short

60. Chatterbox's "gift"

61. Idris who was People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2018

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Down

1. He's a real deer

2. "Yeah, hard pass"

3. Title for no U.S. head of state, so far

4. Made fashionable

5. Tsp. or tbsp.

6. "That was embarrassing!"

7. "Am I speaking to a wall here?!"

8. Got out of Dodge

9. Audio brand

10. Mike and ___

11. One making a living from house money?

12. Ambulance alarm

14. Meeting, briefly

15. Wear away

16. Message that often arrives with a ding

22. Secluded valley

23. Tech review site and anagram of 23-Across

25. Makes sense

26. Hollow, crystalline rock

27. Clay being of Jewish folklore

28. Young ___ (kids)

32. Subpoena, e.g

33. "However," in a 16-Down

35. Snazziness

36. B or C of the Spice Girls

37. [Clears throat]

42. Famous ___ Potato Bowl (annual game in Boise)

43. Knee boo-boo

44. Poems of praise

45. Melodramatic performers

47. Top parts of folders

49. Super Bowl X MVP ___ Swann

50. Name that sounds like a car

52. Nikola Jokic or Nikola Tesla, by birth

53. She sings "Into the Unknown" in "Frozen II"

55. Insecure actress Issa

56. Olympic track star ___ Ali

57. Gooey lump

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