Second-stringers Crossword Clue

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Second-stringers Crossword Answer

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BTEAM

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BTEAMS

(6 letters)

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

SECOND (noun)
1. an indefinitely short time
2. a 60th part of a minute of arc
SECOND (verb)
1. give support or one’s approval to
2. transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
SECOND (adjective)
1. coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
2. a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
SECOND (adverb)
1. in the second place

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

BTEAM
(5 letters)
BTEAMS
(6 letters)

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
BUSS

More WSJ Crossword (10/22/2026) Answers

Across

1. Hunky-dory

4. Suffolk sound

7. Model airplane material

12. Field dressings?

15. Wallops

16. Cupful at Popeyes

17. “Now I remember!”

18. Fork-tailed flier

19. Tampa neighbor, familiarly

21. Tennis star Swiatek

22. Clothes line?

24. You can put drinks on them

28. Generic

30. Onetime JFK lander

32. Hereford sound

33. Rye buys

36. Tip

38. Means of advancement, and what can be found in each set of circles in this puzzle

41. One of 32 in a Monopoly set

42. Pub orders

43. Prove oneself fallible

44. Warriors shoot in it: Abbr.

46. Snap alternative

50. It’s brought to order

52. Shocked

55. Elvis’s longtime label

56. Enjoys a favorite film

58. Thin tubes on tables

59. For some time

62. Thumbs-up

65. Greatly dismay

66. It really sticks in your craw

67. Malia Obama’s younger sister

68. Smash into

69. Lasso in England

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Down

1. Home of the Longhorns

2. “Let’s continue”

3. Culkin of “A Real Pain”

4. Web crawler

5. Finesse

6. Make ___ of (mishandle)

7. Bangkok currency

8. So far

9. Smartphone standard before 5G

10. Salt source

11. Briquette remnant

13. Quagmire

14. Fill to the gills

15. Works with meters and feet

20. Round a corner, in Monopoly

22. “Throw me the football!”

23. Biweekly tide

25. “You said it!”

26. Hammer, for one

27. Yard goods?

29. Pub orders

31. “Shame on you!”

34. Appearance

35. Fangorn Forest creature

37. Fence feature

38. Ticked off

39. Come about

41. Clothes line?

45. Swiss city on the Rhine

47. Stand on the table

48. B to B, e.g.

49. Performed perfectly

51. Heep of literature

53. Bucket of bolts

54. Regarding

57. Queen of scat singing, familiarly

58. Saldaña of “Avatar”

59. Smoke detector batteries, sometimes

60. FDR’s job-creating program

61. Some printers

63. Sch. fundraiser, maybe

64. LP speed

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