Crossword-Solution: SUBSTITUTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Substitute | n. | One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else |
| Substitute | n. | a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man. |
| Substitute | n. | To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “SUBSTITUTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to put or use in the place of another | 1 answer |
| put in the place of another | 1 answer |
| Nonpermanent teacher. | 1 answer |
| Change, as players | 1 answer |
| STEP into shoes of | 2 answers |
| synonym | 2 answers |
| Go in for | 4 answers |
| STANDBY | 4 answers |
| surrogate | 4 answers |
| ACT for | 6 answers |
| THING that replaces another | 7 answers |
| Fill in (for) | 7 answers |
| Stand in | 7 answers |
| HOLD a brief for | 7 answers |
| Understudy | 8 answers |
| Symbolize | 8 answers |
| Proxy | 8 answers |
| TAKE the place of | 9 answers |
| AD hoc measure | 9 answers |
| lieutenant | 11 answers |
| simulacrum | 11 answers |
| in place of | 11 answers |
| doublet | 13 answers |
| BENCH warmer | 17 answers |
| Commute | 18 answers |
| Ersatz | 23 answers |
| ANSWER (FOR) | 24 answers |
| ACT on behalf of | 29 answers |
| Vicar | 30 answers |
| PLAY the part | 34 answers |
| BACKUP ___ | 35 answers |
| Another | 36 answers |
| overseer | 39 answers |
| Stopgap | 42 answers |
| DEPUTY ___ | 46 answers |
| fill in | 49 answers |
| Assistant | 50 answers |
| Alternate | 51 answers |
| subvert | 52 answers |
| Make do | 54 answers |
| Alternative | 56 answers |
| replacement | 62 answers |
| Teaching material | 63 answers |
| Move Slowly | 66 answers |
| insubstantial thing | 72 answers |
| Double | 90 answers |
| Reserve | 95 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
AMECEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SUBSTITUTE (5)
Mistress and man were engaged in the operation of making a lamb “take,” which is performed whenever an ewe has lost her own offspring, one of the twins of another ewe being given her as a substitute.
Net addresses are often used in email text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' `legal' monikers.
Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wildwood charm as that, would be a good enough substitute for coffee.
She, in fact, felt a reverence for the pictured visage, of which only a far-descended and time-stricken virgin could be susceptible; and this forbidding scowl was the innocent result of her near-sightedness, and an effort so to concentrate her powers of vision as to substitute a firm outline of the object instead of a vague one.
But the Black Knight either had no mistress to meditate upon, or, being as indifferent in love as he seemed to be in war, was not sufficiently occupied by passionate reflections upon her beauty and cruelty, to be able to parry the effects of fatigue and hunger, and suffer love to act as a substitute for the solid comforts of a bed and supper.
Quotes with SUBSTITUTE (3)
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of being on the correct side of the front lines. Ten or twelve years later (around the time of our story) the front lines began to melt away, and with them the correct side. No wonder the former supporters of the revolution feel cheated and are quick to seek substitute fronts; thanks to religion they can (in their role as atheists struggling against believers) stand again on the corre…
Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–2001).