Finish second
The crossword clue "Finish second" is answered by LOSE, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOSE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOSE answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for LOSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOSE, most used first.
- Misplace - used 260 times, most recently in 2026
- Mislay - used 50 times, most recently in 2023
- Suffer defeat - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Come up short - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Come in second - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Come in last - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Forfeit - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Be defeated - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Get rid of - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Finish last - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Shake - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Diet successfully - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Give the slip to - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- Ditch - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Shake off - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Take it on the chin - used 17 times, most recently in 2013
- Get checkmated - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Take a beating - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Be bested - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Fail to win - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Go down - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Be vanquished - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Fail to keep - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Get whupped - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Shake, as a tail - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Shed - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Get bested - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Go down in defeat - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Get beaten - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Get defeated - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Get trounced - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Leave in the dust - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Miss. - used 8 times, most recently in 1968
- Gamble badly - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Fail to prevail - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Get whipped - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Leave behind - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- ___ the finish - INAT, used 95 times
- Second to none - BEST, used 58 times
- Eve's second son - ABEL, used 55 times
- Prefix with second - NANO, used 47 times
- Second son - ABEL, used 44 times
- Prayer finish - AMEN, used 41 times
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