| A moment earlier, Beatles ex-drummer was inferior alternative (6,4) |
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| Inferior - but the time is not surpassed (6,4) |
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| Runner-up |
LA Times Daily |
10 May 2025 |
| A less adequate or less desirable alternative (6,4) |
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| Less adequate alternative |
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| Inferior supporter precedes superior |
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| Like a runner-up? (6,4) |
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| Slightly inferior |
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| Not quite good enough (6,4) |
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| Another champion, but an inferior alternative to (6-4) |
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| Poor alternative (6-4) |
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| An inferior alternative (6,4) |
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| Less desirable alternative (6,4) |
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| The winner's apparently inferior to the runner-up |
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| 1991 novel by David Cook |
Mirror Quiz |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Decent boss replaced inferior alternative (6,4) |
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| Runner-up |
New York Times |
23 Feb 2020 |
| Successor to the greatest footballer is not quite the cream of the crop |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 Oct 2017 |
| After short time, be someone very good or not quite as good? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Feb 2017 |
| Back to win against silver medallist |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Oct 2016 |
| Decent boss could be almost first-rate |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Oct 2016 |
| Somewhat inferior new Manchester United whizz kid? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Jan 2015 |
| What a loser could only hope to be? |
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| Not quite tops |
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| Not quite tops |
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| Inferior. |
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| Nearly optimal |
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| What some people settle for |
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| Out of the middle drawer |
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| Kind of bed Shakespeare left to his wife. |
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