The Clue
Dead duck (5 letter answer)
The Answer
GONER
Tags
Notes
The answer GONER is common and appears about once every 250 puzzles.
Related Clues
Person whose number is up
One done for
Doomed one
Hopeless one
Ruined one
One beyond help
One beyond hope
Hopeless case
Lost cause
One past recovery
Toast, after "a"
One on the way out
One who's done for
One who's doomed
One who's "toast"
One who's toast
Bad choice to bet on
He's had it
His goose is cooked
No-hope type
One who has no chance
Definition
GONER as a noun:
1. (goner, toast) = a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"
GONE as an adjective:
1. (away, gone, departed) = not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"
2. (done for, kaput, gone) = destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"
3. (asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone) = dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"
4. (gone, expended, spent) = having all been spent; "the money is all gone"
5. (bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone) = well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"
6. no longer retained; "gone with the wind"