Third-stringer

The answer

SCRUB

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCRUB

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

• Second-stringer - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
• Wash thoroughly - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Cancel - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Scour - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Clean with elbow grease - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Benchwarmer - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Prepare for surgery - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Clean vigorously - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Use elbow grease - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Clean thoroughly - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Wash vigorously - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Clean with effort - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Cancel, as a mission - 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.

• Third rock from the sun - EARTH, used 49 times
• Third canonical hour - TERCE, used 19 times
• Raised to the third power - CUBED, used 17 times
• Third-stringers - CTEAM, used 17 times
• First, second and third - BASES, used 15 times
• Third Hebrew letter - GIMEL, used 14 times

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