In ___ of (substituting for)

The answer

LIEU

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIEU answer page.

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LIEU

Every other clue in this collection answered by LIEU, most used first.

• Stead - used 445 times, most recently in 2026
• Place - used 197 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___ of - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___ of (replacing) - used 168 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___ of (rather than) - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• "In ___ of flowers ..." - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• "In ___ of gifts . . ." - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• In __ of (instead of) - used 62 times, most recently in 2025
• In __ of; as a substitute for - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___ of (as a replacement for) - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Place or stead - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Substitution word - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• California congressman Ted - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• In ___ of (instead) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• (In) place (of) - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• In ___ of (supplanting) - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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