Crossword-Solution: SUCCESSOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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 besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.
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.
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.
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…
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).