Crossword-Solution: WANTERS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Wanters are out and the Hasers are in; that's what makes these wicked little revolutions at every change of the moon--it isn't a question of policy at all.

Having achieved this preliminary, he set off for the nearest good watering-place, being no other than the noted Pitcaithly, where so many "wanters," have, with various success, been supplied; and he had not been a week there when he fell in with a buxom widow of five-and-thirty, who was reported as being worth not a jot less than one hundred and fifty pounds a-year, secured on the strong Atlas, by the providence of her deceased husband.

Wanters, the proprietress, insisted that the obsequies should be public and should not be concealed from the people who lived there.

This scarcity of food is implied in the very name of Spain, Σπανια, which means poverty and destitution, as well as in the term _Bisoños_, wanters, which long has been a synonyme for Spanish soldiers, who are always, as the Duke described them, “hors de combat,” “always _wanting_ in every thing at the critical moment.” Hunger and thirst have ever been, and are, the best defenders of the Peninsula against the invader.