Related Clues:

• Runner-up, essentially
• Locker room sulker
• Successful dieter
• Dewey, to Truman
• Ineffectual competitor
• #3 or #4, say
• Terse putdown
• Perennial last-place finisher
• Short straw drawer, e.g.
• The one with 0 in 7-0
• Last-place finisher
• Runner-up
• Luckless fellow
• Out-of-the-money finisher
• Horse back in the pack, e.g.