The Clue
Pine for (4 letter answer)
The Answer
MISS
Tags
Notes
The answer MISS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.
Related Clues
___ the bus
Escape
Failure
Fan
Forgo
Girl
Hit or ___
Lass
___ Liberty
Long for
___ Marple
Overlook
Oversight
___ Piggy
Swiss ___
Whiff
Be lonely for
Fail to catch
Fail to make
Fail to see
Get wrong
Hit alternative
Hit's opposite
Liberty or America
Liberty preceder
"Little ___ Marker"
Marple or Havisham
Overshoot, say
Pageant title
Peach or Piggy
Strindberg's "___ Julie"
TV's ___ Piggy
Universe or America
Air ball, e.g.
Fail to hit a target
Feel another's absence
Mile equivalent, proverbially
Shoot past, e.g.
Start of a pageant winner's title
Definition
MISS as a noun:
1. (girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille) = a young woman; "a young lady of 18"
2. (miss, misfire) = a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
3. a form of address for an unmarried woman
MISS as a verb:
1. (miss, lose) = fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
2. feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
3. fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
4. (neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap) = leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
5. fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
6. (miss, lack) = be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"
7. fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"
8. be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
9. (miss, escape) = fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"