WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cry for
    v 1: need badly or desperately; "This question cries out for an
         answer" [syn: cry out for, cry for]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "cry for":
   ache for, adjure, appeal, appeal to, ask, ask for, be dying for,
   be hurting for, be indicated, beg, beseech, blackmail, call for,
   call for help, call on, call upon, challenge, claim, clamor for,
   conjure, crave, cry on, cry out for, cry to, demand, entreat,
   exact, extort, gape for, have occasion for, hone for, hope for,
   impetrate, implore, impose, imprecate, indent, invoke,
   issue an ultimatum, itch for, kneel to, languish for, levy,
   long for, lust for, make a demand, need, obtest, order, order up,
   pant for, pine for, place an order, plead, plead for, pray,
   prerequire, put in requisition, require, requisition, run to,
   screw, sigh for, spoil for, supplicate, take doing, thirst for,
   want, want doing, warn, weary for, wish for, yearn for, yen for