Crossword-Solution: UNDERSTUDY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Understudy | v. t. & i. | To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part. |
| Understudy | n. | One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “UNDERSTUDY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Actor waiting for a break | 1 answer |
| to act another's part or take over another's duties | 1 answer |
| Stage backup | 1 answer |
| Sometime substitute. | 1 answer |
| One who succeeds in a performance | 1 answer |
| One prepared to take over from leading actor | 1 answer |
| Lead-off performer? | 1 answer |
| Dramatic substitute. | 1 answer |
| Broadway backup | 1 answer |
| *Actor's stand-in | 3 answers |
| PART in play | 6 answers |
| THING that replaces another | 7 answers |
| AN ACTOR ABLE TO REPLACE A REGULAR PERFORMER WHEN REQUIRED | 11 answers |
| BACKUP ___ | 35 answers |
| Substitute | 43 answers |
| DEPUTY ___ | 46 answers |
| Alternate | 51 answers |
| Actor | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with UNDERSTUDY (5)
CHAPTER 5 The Adventures of an Understudy With Fritz von Tarlenheim and Colonel Sapt close behind me, I stepped out of the buffet on to the platform.
The human being is the “star”, and the horse in only a secondary performer, a sort of understudy; yes, that's it, an understudy--he has to study how to keep under the man.” “Are they hard to train?” “Their work all depends on the men that ride them.
What if, after all, this _were_ an understudy to what was to come later when Music, his rival, had really conquered? Bertram knew that however secure might seem Billy's affection for himself, there was still in his own mind a horrid fear lest underneath that security were an unconscious, growing fondness for something he could not give, for some one that he was not--a fondness that would one day cause Billy to awake.
And she understood why that very night he for the first time asked her to supper after the rehearsal with Sperry and Constance Francklyn, the leading lady, with whom he was having one of those affairs which as he declared to Sperry were "absolutely necessary to a man of genius to keep him freshened up--to keep the fire burning brightly." He had carefully coached Miss Francklyn to play the part of unsuspected "understudy"--Susan saw that before they had been seated in Jack's ten minutes.
But all this extra work required attention, and Edison solved the difficulty of attending also to the newsboy business by the employment of a young friend, whom he trained and treated liberally as an understudy.
Quotes with UNDERSTUDY (3)
At a national political convention, you have hundreds of people who consider themselves at least as important as the Secretary of Commerce. If it's a Democratic convention, you also have dozens of A-list Hollywood and music celebrities. (If it's a Republican convention, you have Bo Derek.) Also you have swarms of lower-ranking Washington minions with titles like Deputy Assistant to the Associate Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff who are trying to move up the ladder to Deputy As…
But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me — I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Onion, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).