Crossword-Solution: SUCCESSOR 9 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Successor n. One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place
which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; --
correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.

We have 18 clues for the answer “SUCCESSOR”

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person who succeeds someone in a position 1 answer
Truman, to Roosevelt 1 answer
Person who follows next in order 1 answer
One who follows 1 answer
Johnston to Valentine. 1 answer
Eisenhower to Truman. 1 answer
Adams, to Washington 1 answer
FORERUNNER (ant.) 2 answers
Augustus, to Julius Caesar 2 answers
feoffee 4 answers
Legatee 9 answers
A THING OR PERSON THAT IMMEDIATELY REPLACES SOMETHING OR SOMEONE 11 answers
A PERSON WHO INHERITS SOME TITLE OR OFFICE 11 answers
A PERSON WHO FOLLOWS NEXT IN ORDER 11 answers
Beneficiary 23 answers
Heir 27 answers
Expectant 38 answers
replacement 62 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUCCESSOR (5)

His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979
And now that I am lord, Successor to his throne, his bed, his wife, (And had he not been frustrate in the hope Of issue, common children of one womb Had forced a closer bond twixt him and me, But Fate swooped down upon him), therefore I His blood-avenger will maintain his cause As though he were my sire, and leave no stone Unturned to track the assassin or avenge The son of Labdacus, of Polydore, Of Cadmus, and Agenor first of the race.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The {PDP-10} successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

Quotes with SUCCESSOR (3)

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile! What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his min…
Solomon Ecclesiastes, a New Tr. with Notes by J.N. Coleman
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
Criss Jami Killosophy
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).