Related Clues:

• Lack or require
• Severe shortage of food for many
• In want of
• Excess of expenditure over income
• A scarcity of thread
• Deficiency, want
• ''A friend in .... is a friend indeed''
• Amount of which total falls short
• Be without, do not have
• Require, lack
• Be without or short of
• A severe shortage of food
• A great shortage as of food
• Show this to make a loss
• Scarcity of thread