Butter substitute Crossword Clue

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MARGARINE

(9 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SUBSTITUTE (verb)
1. act as a substitute
2. be a substitute
SUBSTITUTE (adjective)
1. serving or used in place of another
2. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
SUBSTITUTE (noun)
1. someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
2. an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
BUTTER (noun)
1. a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
2. an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
BUTTER (verb)
1. spread butter on

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

MARGARINE
(9 letters)

More NYT Crossword (6/1/2025) Answers

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21. Vice follower

22. Cambodian cash

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27. Whole lot

28. "___, so good!" (furniture store pun)

29. Example of industry in Proverbs 6:6-9

30. They might be ripe for changing

31. Polish language

33. Camera inits.

35. Coerced (into)

37. Magicians' cries

39. Earth

42. Bridge support

43. Suffers the cost

44. Substance adapted to lab use by Fanny Hesse in 1881

45. Grow weary

47. Kind of policy that encourages transparency from leadership

49. OMG enough!

51. Northwestern abode

54. Rent

55. GLIBNESS

58. One "M" of the M.M.R. vaccine

60. Inflation meas.

61. "Paradise ___"

62. Pepsi, e.g.

64. Big Apple airport code

65. Guess

69. Obvious choice

73. Org. enabled by the 16th Amendment

74. Smell

76. On

77. Darn, say

79. Home of Morehouse College

83. Resist

87. One may be fawning

88. European capital through which the Akerselva flows

90. Chill

91. Pod or husk, botanically

92. Army NCO

94. Word after game or floor

96. Sweden joined it in 2024

98. Consumed

99. Rages

103. Peddled things

104. Hawaiian song of farewell

105. Meas. roughly equivalent to 10 billion 12-Downs

106. Bit of equipment for a vault

107. Layer

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111. Nerve

113. Give for free

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Down

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2. First name in stunts

3. Obstacle course element

4. "Is that all you have to tell me?"

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8. Ostentatious

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11. Aid-de-camp?

12. Piece of work

13. Excluding

14. Bakery treat

15. "In case my message isn't landing …"

16. It might begin with a false alarm

17. Fortuneteller

18. Early automaker

24. Egyptian fertility goddess

25. Muffler material, maybe

26. Comfort

32. Fantasy role-playing game, for short

34. Endures

36. Way out of town, perhaps

37. Author's assistant

38. Loss of the ability to read

39. Is so inclined

40. Narrow the gap with, competitively

41. Branching diagram

42. Ceremony

43. Some collared shirts

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48. Regional divisions in Russia

50. It may be dropped for effect

52. Lose progress, in a way

53. Members of a priestly caste of ancient Persia

56. German town

57. Rudely revel in victory, say

59. Japanese honorific

63. Two-version marketing experiments

66. Rio maker

67. Puzzlemaker Rubik

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71. What you will?

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78. Small songbird

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82. He's a head of the pack

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