Last seen in:
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,003 - Aug 21 2021
- Wall Street Journal - Jul 8 2019 - Inside Joke
- USA Today - Nov 4 2013
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 13,504 - Aug 20 2013
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 27,037 - Nov 30 2012
- Universal - Jul 19 2012
- Universal - Jul 21 2003
- Irish Times (Simplex) - Oct 23 2001
Related Clues:
- A scarcity of thread
- A severe shortage of food
- A great shortage as of food
- Scarcity of thread
- Severe shortage of food
- Shortage, paucity
- Hundreds get ground, yet there's such a shortage here
- There's not enough there, of course, underground at last
- Not much food with just a hole in the ground at last
- It's splendid around the morning to have nothing, of course
- When there's nothing left, of course, for me 32 across
- In time of scarcity things begin to get expensive
- Shortage may lead to things starting to be expensive
- It's not enough to remove the top and expose the soil
- A short age of five hundred for this planet