Fat substitute

The answer

OLEAN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OLEAN answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• OLESTRA (17 uses in xd)

Other clues for OLEAN

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

• City on the Allegheny - used 78 times, most recently in 2021
• New York city - used 75 times, most recently in 2021
• N.Y. city - used 20 times, most recently in 1991
• City in New York. - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Fake fat brand - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• City in N. Y. - used 11 times, most recently in 1984
• City near Buffalo - used 11 times, most recently in 2009
• City SSE of Buffalo - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Fat substitute brand - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Ersatz fat brand - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• NY city - used 9 times, most recently in 2002
• Allegheny River city - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• New York city on the Allegheny - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Upstate New York city - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Chocolate substitute - CAROB, used 141 times
• Money substitute - SCRIP, used 31 times
• Soap substitute - AMOLE, used 31 times
• "Jack __ could eat no fat..." - SPRAT, used 30 times
• Liquid fat - OLEIN, used 24 times
• Fat cat - NABOB, used 23 times

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