| WASLOST | "For want of a nail, a shoe ___" |
| SHOE | First thing lost in the "For Want of a Nail" proverb |
| AHORSE | For loss of a shoe, ______ was lost, ... |
| AIDER | For assistance get a criminal for want of a better, as they say (5) |
| NAILTHE | "For want of a ___ shoe was lost" |
| LACK | For want of a fillet of pollack (4) |
| DOCKET | The alien is to be deprived of pay for want of a written permit (6) |
| NAIL | "For want of a ___..." |
| GREED | "___, for want of a better word, is good" |
| LIMP | Make slow progress for want of a stiffener? (4) |
| CLOVE | Segment of a bulb of garlic; an old weight for cheese or wool; or, from the French meaning "nail", a flower bud of a Moluccan or Zanzibari tree, dried as an aromatic spice (5) |
| SPIKE | A long metal nail; a prong on which to impale documents; one of several projections on the sole of a running shoe; or, a sudden surge (5) |
| PRIDE | "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." is the first sentence in the novel ___ and Prejudice |
| WIFE | Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a..." (4) |
| HEAD | The flattened or rounded end of a nail, pin or match; or, the membrane of a drum (4) |
| CUTICLE | Patch of dead skin at the base of a nail |
| WANT | "For ___ of a nail . . ." |
| PIASTRE | Street in very good district in want of a bit of money |
| EXIST | Be unfair to a woman maybe in want of a roof (5) |
| TOE | Drive obliquely, as of a nail |
