Crossword-Solution: CONTENDER 9 letters, 67 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Contender n. One who contends; a contestant.

We have 67 clues for the answer “CONTENDER”

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With money 1 answer
Pugilist seeking a title 1 answer
Money in prison? 1 answer
Money from a prisoner? 1 answer
Champion wannabe 1 answer
Boxing hopeful 1 answer
duellist 2 answers
Striver 5 answers
Prison guard? 6 answers
struggler 9 answers
Fencer 14 answers
entrant 15 answers
Gladiator 16 answers
fearless hero 18 answers
brawler 18 answers
Bruiser 19 answers
enlistee 19 answers
essayer 20 answers
athlete 21 answers
emulator 22 answers
wartime fighter 22 answers
rifleman 22 answers
Swordsman 23 answers
combat soldier 24 answers
compeer 27 answers
invader 28 answers
pugnacious person 28 answers
Opponent 30 answers
Rival 30 answers
BOXER ___ 30 answers
Foe 30 answers
freedom fighter 32 answers
Challenger 32 answers
Aggressor 32 answers
assailant 33 answers
Competitor 33 answers
Heckler 34 answers
Mutineer 34 answers
intruder 35 answers
trier 35 answers
Killer 37 answers
battler 38 answers
applicant 39 answers
Enemy 40 answers
armed fighter 41 answers
protector 41 answers
revolutionist 43 answers
Pawn 43 answers
anarchist 43 answers
disputant 46 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECEAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONTENDER (5)

All the children knew that they must obey Anna, who was an obstinate contender for proprieties and not always fair minded.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The healthy soda had instantly become a popular cocktail mixer, displacing Mother Nature's own natural contender, orange juice.
Undo Joe Hutsko 1996
The logical contender for Jack Dempsey’s championship honours has been discovered; and, in an age where women are stealing men’s jobs all the time, it will not come as a surprise to our readers to learn that she belongs to the sex that is more deadly than the male.
Indiscretions of Archie P. G. Wodehouse 2001
Did Dave think he had been killed or was still pursuing the man whose neck-kerchief had aroused such animosity in Hopalong's heart? Or had the horse actually been returned? The animal was a good one, a successful contender in all distances from one to five miles, and had earned its owner and backers much money--and Hopalong had parted with it as easily as he would have borrowed five dollars from Red.
Bar-20 Days Clarence E. Mulford 2006
And here, because I am loath to be too tedious, I do conclude, and desire thy prayers to God for me (if thou be a Christian) that I may not only be preserved to the end in the faith of Jesus, cut that God would enable me to be an earnest contender for the same, even to the last; and rest, The servant of the Lord JESUS, John Bunyan.
The Works of John Bunyan Volume 2 John Bunyan 2004

Quotes with CONTENDER (3)

So then do you think it's true that he killed someone? And what about the part where he wishes he could die?""If it IS true that he killed someone, that's bad." In any case, "it seems like something is bothering Shuji" was now a contender for the Understatement of the Century.
Mizuki Nomura Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.
Mandy Hale The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He had the murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly. Five and a half thousand souls onboard. Five and a half thousand suspects. Three days. So far, nothing. Now it would be taken further by the planetary authorities on the colony world below. A forensic team (cunningly disguised as a cle…
Christina Engela Dead Man's Hammer
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1978–2024).