Baseball’s Ripken Crossword Clue

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Baseball’s Ripken Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

BASEBALL (noun)
1. a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
2. a ball used in playing baseball

Hint 2: Anagram

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More WSJ Crossword (10/19/2026) Answers

Across

1. Ancient French people conquered by Julius Caesar

6. Strongly bitter

11. “The butler ___ it”

14. Nixon’s first vice president

15. Selected

16. Ambient music’s Brian

17. Basil-based sauce

18. Geyser’s kin

20. Holier-than-___

22. Old eatery with food behind windows

23. Stingy sort

27. Mr. ___ (secret agent in 1930s movies)

28. Get better

29. Spice in pumpkin pie

30. Batter in a classic poem

31. Help

32. Shaker stuff

33. Camel color

34. Use a crowbar

35. Clasp for a cravat

37. Gift-wrapping adornment

41. A double play results in two

42. Gorilla, for example

43. Eye-popping images

46. ___ sci (government study)

47. Spoken

48. Smell sensor

49. Buck

51. Essentially

53. Pecans and pistachios

54. Basketball hoop holder, and a feature of 18-, 23-, 35- and 49-Across

57. Silences with the remote

60. Greek’s H

61. Fury

62. Japanese port

63. Cargo unit

64. Robustly muscular

65. Stopwatch button

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Down

1. Opening

2. Get older

3. Wobbling

4. Deadly

5. Eagle’s attack move

6. German exclamation

7. John of “Star Trek Beyond”

8. Turn

9. Debate topic

10. Corp. division

11. Smaller of the two moons of Mars

12. Unlearned

13. Old tennis ball, maybe

19. Kind of bath or numeral

21. Label on a street-side box

23. British fellow

24. Recipient of the family fortune

25. Vitamin-rich salad green

26. “Tamp down your enthusiasm”

30. Ballpark souvenirs

32. ERA or RBI, e.g.

33. 16th-century Venetian painter

36. Temporary pause

37. Macchiato makers

38. Shimmery gemstone

39. Water source

40. Small stream

43. How money might be lost

44. Chips source

45. Depth charge, in military slang

46. Thick soup

47. Dull-witted

49. Aerial coverage provider

50. Bit of gossip

52. Rhyme scheme of “Purple Cow”

55. Gridiron official, for short

56. Like the Dust Bowl

58. Scratch (out)

59. Plopped down

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