Winning a blue ribbon Crossword Clue

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Winning a blue ribbon Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
2. the time at which something is supposed to begin
(adjective)
1. indicating the beginning unit in a series
2. serving to set in motion
(adverb)
1. prominently forward
2. before anything else

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

RIBBON (noun)
1. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
2. any long object resembling a thin line
WINNING (adjective)
1. very attractive; capturing interest
2. having won
WINNING (noun)
1. succeeding with great difficulty

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
FRITS

More NYT Crossword (5/11/2026) Answers

Across

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4. Animal that ranges around Peru

9. Pointed, as a weapon

14. Lumberjack's tool

15. Cameroon neighbor

16. Yell

17. Rankings of song popularity used as the music industry standard

20. Swells up

21. Number in a septet

22. "Pb" in Chemistry

23. Own (up)

24. Freeze's opposite

28. Whirling water

29. Up to, as a certain time

30. Take fowl foully

31. Canapé or deviled egg, for example

34. Clears of charges

38. A million gazillion

39. Movie production facilities with controlled acoustics

41. Leave stunned

42. Monk's counterpart

43. Cut of pork or lamb

47. Spa service on the toes, in brief

48. "Please, no more!"

50. [That is SO funny!]

51. Braid

53. Helping for someone very, very hungry

55. Insignificant amount

59. Tired from overexposure

60. "It was the ___ I could do"

61. Big part of an elephant

62. Storage places for lawn mowers

63. Go kaboom, as a volcano

64. Deadpan

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Down

1. Practice casually, with "in"

2. Kicked out, as from a country

3. Fill with more ammunition

4. Pride letters

5. Vientiane is it’s capital

6. Lawyers' org

7. Tasty little bites

8. Peruvian mountains

9. Tennis star Arthur

10. "Don't involve me anymore"

11. French for "sea"

12. Gobble down

13. Medical pros (Abbr.)

18. Noblewoman

19. Rival of Walgreens

25. Possess

26. Unit initially conceived as the amount of land that can be plowed in a day

27. "___ in doubt ..."

29. Pre-K enrollees

30. Enlivens with up

31. ___-and-seek

32. Unearthed

33. Rain clouds, to some

34. Rapper ___ Rocky

35. "___ as you are"

36. College courtyard

37. Opened, as a fly

40. Request from someone craving more

43. Fashionable

44. Listened, poetically

45. "Goodness me!" ... or a phonetic hint to 17-, 31-, 39- and 55-Across

46. Croissant, éclair or Danish

48. The "S" of S.F.

49. Mr., Ms., or Mrs.

52. Tube tops

53. Recipe amt.

54. Jabba the ___ ("Star Wars" villain)

55. Party pros playing tunes

56. Go team!

57. Poem of praise

58. Contents of l'océan

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