Baseball Crossword for Adults

This hard crossword about baseball has 21 entries on a 15 by 15 grid, 10 across and 11 down.

Answers average 6.6 letters and the longest runs nine, clued as "Brief pause between second and third" (13 Across). It crosses five other answers, so getting it early opens up much of the grid.

  • 21 clues
  • 15 x 15 grid
  • Hard
  • Answers 4 to 9 letters

The three longest answers

  1. 11 Across (8)Legume sphere thrown at the head
  2. 13 Across (9)Brief pause between second and third
  3. 7 Down (9)Denny's breakfast that clears the bases

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Across

  1. 2. Chess piece sounding like a greenhorn
  2. 4. Shoe mark left on a doctored sphere
  3. 8. Department head calling for a relief pitcher
  4. 10. Flawless performance with twenty-seven up and down
  5. 11. Legume sphere thrown at the head
  6. 13. Brief pause between second and third
  7. 17. Sacrificial offering laid down gently
  8. 18. Sparkler that takes four bases to cross
  9. 20. Computer glitch that costs an unearned run
  10. 21. Banned moisture-laden delivery

Down

  1. 1. Trinity achieved by a speedy runner
  2. 3. Fluttering enigma dancing to the plate
  3. 5. Sudden alteration thrown to deceive
  4. 6. Stuttering step that advances the enemy
  5. 7. Denny's breakfast that clears the bases
  6. 9. Eraser that the pitcher toes
  7. 12. Frame of play divided into top and bottom
  8. 14. Left jabber toeing the rubber
  9. 15. Distant pasture where flies are chased down
  10. 16. Greek poet who cleared the fences
  11. 19. Road hazard that drops off the table

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