Player coming off the bench, for short
The crossword clue "Player coming off the bench, for short" is answered by SUB, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SUB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUB answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SUB
Every other clue in this collection answered by SUB, most used first.
- Long sandwich - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Long lunch? - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Hero - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Stand-in - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- Fill-in - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
- Second-stringer - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Deli order - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hero sandwich - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Benchwarmer - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Deli creation - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Deli sandwich - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Deli offering - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- U-boat, for one - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Sonar user - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Temp - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Hoagie - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Red October, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- U-boat - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Underwater vessel - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Grinder - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Pinch hitter - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Sizable sandwich - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Temp teacher - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Temp worker - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Undersea vessel - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- For each - PER, used 391 times
- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
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