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Baseball mini crosswords

The Baseball shelf in Theme Minis is 35 puzzles deep (18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6) and sits with the sport themes. Every puzzle is small enough to finish in a short break.

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What is inside the Baseball theme

Add up every clue in the theme and you get 382. The themed answers number 103, running from 3 to 6 letters long, with 2 to 5 of them in any one puzzle.

All 35 Baseball puzzles

The puzzles are numbered in the order the game lists them. Where a puzzle is not one of the coming daily minis, two of its themed clues are printed beside it. Answers and grids are not shown.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Throw passed from outfield to infield” and “Sharp base hit”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Fielder's costly miscue” and “Pitcher's runs-allowed stat, for short”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Bad ___, a tricky bounce” and “Shout of support”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Scoop a low throw out of the dirt” and “___ game, played in the sunshine”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Game with an even score” and “Person rooting in the stands”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “___ tar on the bat handle” and “Where the game is played”
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hard throw to a base” and “___ fly, an easy high one”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Raised dirt the pitcher stands on” and “Bag of powder on the mound”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “First half of an inning” and “Leave your feet for a catch”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Go in feet first” and “Five-sided slab the batter stands beside”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Crowd's rude sound” and “Touch a runner with the ball”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Another name for a base” and “Nine innings”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Leather the fielder wears” and “Ball hit clean out of the park”
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Nine players together” and “Artificial grass in some parks”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What scores when you cross the plate” and “Safe knock”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Part of the uniform with a brim” and “Team's best starting pitcher”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cut at the ball” and “Reliever's credit for closing out a win”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___ innings, played after a tie” and “Swipe a base”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Gentle throw” and “The running total”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Breaking ball that bends” and “Send the ball to a base”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Take a grounder cleanly” and “Three of them end an inning”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Grab the ball before it drops” and “___ fly, an out that scores a run”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “What the foul lines are drawn with” and “Safe knock”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What the infielders play on” and “The whole gathering at the park”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Run batted in, for short” and “Official who calls strikes”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Season's best player award, for short” and “Pitcher's runs-allowed stat, for short”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Free pass to first” and “Season's best player award, for short”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Hard hit” and “Pitcher's runs-allowed stat, for short”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “One-base hit” and “___ fly, an out that scores a run”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “First, second or third” and “Comeback burst of runs”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Man in the box beside first” and “___ fly, an out that scores a run”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Season's best player award, for short” and “Part of the uniform with a brim”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Number of innings” and “What the infielders play on”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Runner's step off the bag” and “What the losing pitcher takes”

Sample Baseball clues

Six more clues from the Baseball word list, without their answers:

  • “Ball hit outside the lines”
  • “Padded catcher's hand gear”
  • “Spiked shoe”
  • “Player on base”
  • “Pitch that darts sideways”
  • “Ball sent high in the air”

Play Baseball in Theme Minis

The front page of Theme Minis has a button for the themes; Baseball is among them. Open it and the puzzles are shown a dozen at a time.

Need the rules first? Read how to play.

Themes near Baseball

The full theme list has the rest. Prefer a quiz? Try Rewind; prefer words? See Stepword.