| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| REQUIRING | Needing | |
| CRAVING | Needing greatly | |
| ILL | Needing rest | |
| TIRED | Needing rest | |
| TUMBLERS | Gymnasts needing glasses | |
| INDEPENDENT | Needing no help | |
| UPHILL | Needing protracted effort | |
| EMERGENCY | Situation needing prompt action | |
| DUSTY | Needing cleaning; Miss Springfield | |
| DRY | Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. | |
| UNCLEAN | Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. | |
| GREENHOUSE | Glass building holding plants needing protection | |
| DISREPAIR | Bad condition needing to be fixed | |
| THIRST | A feeling of needing to drink something | |
| RECKLING | Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. | |
| PLAUSIBLE | Quite believable that I sell a pub needing renovation | |
| GETTINGAHEAD | Advancing as every leaderless group is needing to do | |
| EGENCE | The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. | |
| SELF-SUFFICING | Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient. | |
| HELPLESS | Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. | |
| TRUISM | An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. | |