Choose as a successor
The crossword clue "Choose as a successor" is answered by ANOINT, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ANOINT
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Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANOINT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANOINT, most used first.
- Consecrate - used 71 times, most recently in 2025
- Consecrate with oil - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Bless with oil - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Apply holy oil to - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Rub with oil - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Sprinkle with oil - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Choose formally - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Apply oil to - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Bless - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Consecrate, in a way - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Make sacred - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Put holy oil on - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Consecrate using oil - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Designate - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Embrocate - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Sanctify with oil - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Choose - SELECT, used 90 times
- Carter's successor - REAGAN, used 25 times
- Choose - OPTFOR, used 25 times
- Jimmy's successor - RONALD, used 18 times
- Choose not to participate - OPTOUT, used 13 times
- Dan Quayle's successor - ALGORE, used 12 times
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