The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SUBS , but the solution may also be B-TEAM which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Benchwarmers crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SUBS | 38 % | 4 |
| SCRUBS | 31 % | 6 |
| BTEAM | 6 % | 5 |
| SECONDTEAM | 6 % | 10 |
| SUBSTITUTES | 6 % | 11 |
| SECONDSTRINGERS | 6 % | 15 |
| B-TEAM | 6 % | 6 |
Why may B-TEAM be the right solution?
The term "benchwarmers" refers to players who do not get much playing time in a sports team. In this context, the answer "B-TEAM" is appropriate because it represents a secondary or substitute team, often referred to as the "B-team" in sports.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Benchwarmers
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sub
- benches
- bench press
- bench pressing
- warmers
- slackers
- mediocrities
- leg warmers
- bounders
- front bench
- dullards
- park bench
Crossword Answer definitions
SUBS noun- A submarine.
- A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
- A substitute, often in sports.
- (often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
- A subtitle.
- A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
- A subeditor.
- A subcontractor.
- (BDSM) A submissive.
- A subordinate.
- A subaltern.
- A subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
- Subsistence money: part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
- To substitute for.
- To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
- To replace (a player) with a substitute.
- Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
- To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
- To lend.
- To subscribe.
- (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
- To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
- To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SUBS
- Battleship pieces
- Long lunches?
- Reserves on the bench
- Classroom stand-ins
- Benchwarmers
- Second-stringers
- Those on the bench
- Heroes
- Some foot-longs
- Pinch hitters
More clues leading to the result SCRUBS
- Second-stringers
- 2001-10 hospital sitcom
- Surgeon's outfit
- Benchwarmers
- Surgeon's duds
- Zach Braff sitcom
- TV series set at Sacred Heart Hospital
- Surgical garb
- Surgical coverage?
- Scours
More clues leading to the result BTEAM
- Practice squad
- Scrubs, often
- Second stringers
- Second string
- Backup crew
- Second-stringers
- Bench squad
- Bench warmers
- Second-string squad
- Subs
More clues leading to the result SECONDTEAM
More clues leading to the result SUBSTITUTES
More clues leading to the result SECONDSTRINGERS
- They're not on the A-team
- B team
- Subs, for starters
- Reserve linemen
- Some reserves
- Some subs
- Some people sitting on benches
- Benchwarmers
- They don't start