ERSATZ

Phony

• Artificial

• Being an inferior substitute

• Bogus

• Counterfeit

• Fake

• German sub?

• Imitation

• Like a fauxlex watch

• Like a Rolek watch

• Like chicory vis-

• Like oleo vis-

• Like Splenda vis-

• Makeshift

• Manufactured

• Margarine is this

• Margarine, vis-

• Margarine, vis-a-vis butter

• Mock

• Not exactly authentic

• Not genuine, and usually inferior to the original

• Not natural

• Not quite real

• Not real

• Not the real McCoy

• Not the real thing

• Phony tears confused chief of Zulus (6)

• Plastic, so to speak

• Poor quality imitation

• Pretended

• Sham

• Simulated

• Substitute

• Substitute badly rates 'Z' (6)

• Synthetic

• Unreal