| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| LIEU | Stead | |
| STEDFASTLY | See Stead, Steadfast, etc. | |
| BEHALF | Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication. | |
| DEPUTIZE | To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute. | |
| VICE | In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned. | |
| PLACE | Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). | |
| PROXY | A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting. | |
| DELEGATION | A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. | |