Clues for the word "BALL"
We've had 219 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 291 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 16, 2025.
Definition of ball
- n. - Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
- n. - A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
- n. - A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
- n. - Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
- n. - A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
- n. - A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
- n. - A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
- n. - A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
- n. - The globe or earth.
- v. i. - To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
- v. t. - To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- v. t. - To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
- n. - A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
Referring Clues
- Débutante's affair
- Horsehide or pigskin
- Formal dance
- Musket missile
- "Cinderella" event
- Good time
- Wax unit?
- Nine ___ (billiards game)
- Bouncer?
- Word that can follow the ends of 17-, 26-, 43- and 58-Across
- Eight ___ (black sphere)
- Event attended by Cinderella
- Event for Cinderella
- Bouncer
- Masquerader's event
- Fun time
- Something passed in courts
- Diamond object
- A circus seal might balance one
- Tea ___ (perforated tea holder)
- Blast
- Part of the foot
- Cinderella's destination
- Pitch out of the strike zone
- Randy Johnson miss
- Outside pitch, for one
- Word after medicine or crystal
- Object in many sports
- 25% of a walk
- Fancy dance
- High pitch, say
- Word with fur or fuzz
- Bowler's roller
- Word with 23-Across
- Annual Times Square dropper
- Formal
- Ump's call
- Great time
- Musket projectile
- Sphere
- Cotillion
- Deb's event
- It may be masked
- "Chain" companion
- Word with "eight" or "fast"
- Umpire's call
- Society event
- Socket counterpart
- Word with eight or fast
- Walk on the fourth?
- Social event for Scarlett
- Terrific time
- It may be carried or dropped
- "Costume" party
- Really good time
- Event with gowns
- Yarn unit
- "Chain" companion
- Word with "eight" or "fast"
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- Wax unit
- Black eight, e.g.
- Snow missile
- Dance
- Debutante's party
- Chain's companion
- Simple toy
- Chain's partner
- 'I Love Lucy star'
- Golf need
- 'I Love Lucy' star
- Target for 39-Across
- 'Cinderella' setting
- Metaphorical wax shape
- See 25-Down
- Object that may be struck by the starts of the answers to starred clues
- Pet toy
- Nursery toy
- Swell time
- Round object
- High-pitched cry from an ump?
- Event Cinderella attended
- Bad thing to drop in business
- Bouncing toy
- Dodge ______
- Socialite's party
- Arnaz's collaborator in comedy
- It has a red stripe in pool
- Cinderella's soiree
- Formal party
- Screen redhead
- Toy "wrapped" in the answer at 43-Across
- One blowing up a lottery machine?
- Playground bouncer
- *Rocking good time
- See 36-Across
- Gala event
- Hard or soft sphere
- Elaborate dance
- ___ and chain
- Umpire's cry
- Cinderella's dance
- See 12-Down ... and a word that can follow the ends of the answers to starred clues
- See 10 Down
- ___ bearing
- *Event in "Cinderella"
- Tennis racket's target
- Soiree
- Chain partner
- Strike's opposite
- Soccer sphere
- Pigskin or horsehide
- Formal affair
- Tennis racket target
- Redhead of classic TV
- ___ state (David Letterman"s alma mater)
- Dance event
- Gala affair
- Spalding or Voit product
- Child's toy
- Word with foot or base
- Soccer is played with it
- Child's round plaything
- Word with basket or soccer
- Round plaything
- Dance band leader meets everybody
- It's not a strike
- Soccer need
- Spherical object
- Type of dance that Cinderella attended
- Shagger's collectible
- Lucille ___
- '69 Iron Butterfly album
- Squash, say
- Social function for dancing
- Slash's Snakepit "Be the ___"
- Left backing return of Labour Party
- Party nut
- See 26
- Regularly fall ill after bachelor party
- Event giving rise to Liberal party
- It's often passed to a colleague
- See 12
- The cooperative thing to play
- A round dance?
- Catch requirement
- Dance - sphere
- Not a square dance?
- See 17
- Sphere - dance
- No 7 - did it cross the line?
- Bouncer for the dance
- Strike's counterpart
- Cinderella attended it
- Event where Austen readers first "see" Mr. Darcy
- Round object in sports
- Retriever on court, ___ boy
- Sphere of the dance?
- See 27
- See 2
- Book to attend every single social function
- See 10
- Two lengths below what a flier might go by
- Party in retreat - Liberal Party
- Leaving Oxford college, I look back
- What Cinderella wanted to attend
- It drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve
- Squash need
- Labrador's playtime quarry
- High and outside pitch, say
- Dance band's leader has everything
- Part 3 of quote
- Object used in sports
- Dance nut
- Bouncer?
- Where Cinderella lost her slipper
- Low pitch, perhaps
- Great dance for everybody at Birkenhead
- Orb
- High pitch, maybe
- 33-Down need
- *Kind of pen
- Beach toy
- Field hockey need
- Super time
- Cricket need
- Part of a Cinderella story
- Bowler's orb
- Sports item absent from wrestling and track
- Soccer item
- Need in many outdoor games
- "Cinderella" dance
- Off pitch? ... and a hint to the starred answers' starts
- Word after "crystal" or "disco"
- Word after "screw" or "stick"
- Twentieth-century chemist Alice
- Something floating in the cistern
- What Fido might fetch
- Item for fetch or catch
- Ump's cry
- Matzo ___ soup
- A round dance?
- Fun thing to kick
- Word before "gown" or "bearing"
- Bat's target
- Emmy winner Lucille
- Ballistic missile?
- Lucille who played Lucy
- Word after "soccer" or "pickle"
- Sitcom pioneer Lucille
- *Alert
- Foot part
- Wad (up)
- ___ culture ("Pose" subject)
- Word after "soccer" or "base"
- Word with hard or soft
- Word in the name of many sports
- Lucille from Jamestown
- Fancy party
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - December 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2025
- LA Times - July 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 21, 2025
- USA Today - December 18, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 13, 2024
- Daily American - August 27, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 29, 2024
- Family Time - July 28, 2024
- LA Times - July 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2024
- Family Time - July 21, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 27, 2024
- USA Today - May 01, 2024
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