| Alternative to rolls | 20 |
| Alternative to rouge in roulette | 32 |
| Alternative to round-trip | 25 |
| Alternative to Rover | 20 |
| Alternative to Rover or Rex | 27 |
| Alternative to rubber bullets | 29 |
| Alternative to Ruffles | 22 |
| Alternative to Russian | 22 |
| Alternative to rye for a sandwich maker | 39 |
| Alternative to salad | 20 |
| Alternative to satellite | 24 |
| Alternative to Scylla | 21 |
| Alternative to seitan | 21 |
| Alternative to seven-grain | 26 |
| Alternative to shaving cream, for retro types | 45 |
| Alternative to shells | 21 |
| Alternative to sherbet | 22 |
| Alternative to Shiite | 21 |
| Alternative to shine | 20 |
| Alternative to shoots? | 22 |
| Alternative to shoving mail under the door | 42 |
| Alternative to shrooms | 22 |
| Alternative to singles, in figure skating | 41 |
| Alternative to sm. and med. | 27 |
| Alternative to smoking | 22 |
| Alternative to smoking? | 23 |
| Alternative to snail mail | 25 |
| Alternative to soap | 19 |
| Alternative to Sony or JVC | 26 |
| Alternative to special delivery | 31 |
| Alternative to stairs | 21 |
| Alternative to stamp | 20 |
| Alternative to standard medicine | 32 |
| Alternative to standard TV | 26 |
| Alternative to steps | 20 |
| Alternative to Subway or Blimpie | 32 |
| Alternative to suspenders | 25 |
| Alternative to Szechuan | 23 |
| Alternative to Szechwan | 23 |
| Alternative to tea leaves | 25 |
| Alternative to Tempur-Pedic | 27 |
| Alternative to term insurance | 29 |
| Alternative to text messages | 28 |
| Alternative to texted | 21 |
| Alternative to texts | 20 |
| Alternative to that | 19 |
| Alternative to the euro: Abbr. | 30 |
| Alternative to the Fiesta | 25 |
| Alternative to the mall | 23 |
| Alternative to the morning-after pill | 37 |
| Alternative to the orchestra | 28 |
| Alternative to the pill, briefly | 32 |
| Alternative to the post office | 30 |
| Alternative to the subway | 25 |
| Alternative to this and that, with "the" | 50 |
| Alternative to Tic Tacs | 23 |
| Alternative to tighty whities | 29 |
| Alternative to TNT or TBS | 25 |
| Alternative to Top 40 | 21 |
| Alternative to tossed salad | 27 |
| Alternative to Travelers | 24 |
| Alternative to Travelocity or Orbitz | 36 |
| Alternative to true, on a quiz | 30 |
| Alternative to true-false or multiple-choice | 44 |
| Alternative to truth | 20 |
| Alternative to truth in a party game | 36 |
| Alternative to Twinkies | 23 |
| Alternative to U.P.S. | 21 |
| Alternative to U.S.P.S. | 23 |
| Alternative to Unisom or Nytol | 30 |
| Alternative to United | 21 |
| Alternative to Uno Chicago Grill | 32 |
| Alternative to vanilla: Abbr. | 29 |
| Alternative to Vegas | 20 |
| Alternative to velcro | 21 |
| Alternative to vernacular, historically | 39 |
| Alternative to Virginia Slims | 29 |
| Alternative to Visa or MC | 25 |
| Alternative to Vogue or Glamour | 31 |
| Alternative to waffles | 22 |
| Alternative to wall-to-wall carpet | 34 |
| Alternative to war | 18 |
| Alternative to watercolors | 26 |
| Alternative to wax | 18 |
| Alternative to waxing | 21 |
| Alternative to white | 20 |
| Alternative to white or rye | 27 |
| Alternative to white or wheat | 29 |
| Alternative to white, as turkey meat | 36 |
| Alternative to whole | 20 |
| Alternative to whole or 2% | 26 |
| Alternative to whole wheat | 26 |
| Alternative to win or draw | 26 |
| Alternative to Windows | 22 |
| Alternative to Wranglers | 24 |
| Alternative to Yahoo! | 21 |
| Alternative to yes or no | 24 |
| Alternative to Zenith or JVC | 28 |
| Alternative to ZzzQuil | 22 |
| Alternative version | 19 |