Closer’s success Crossword Clue

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Closer’s success Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
2. accumulate money for future use
(noun)
1. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SUCCESS (noun)
1. a person with a record of successes
2. an attainment that is successful
CLOSER (noun)
1. (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game
2. a person who closes something
CLOSER (adverb)
1. (comparative of `near’ or `close’) within a shorter distance

Hint 3: Anagram

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More WSJ Crossword (11/22/2024) Answers

Across

1. Out of here

5. Energetic effort

9. Mobile home?

13. Openly confess

14. Moves gently

15. Opera-based Elton John/Tim Rice musical

16. With 66-Across, setting of “Ball and Chain” on Janis Joplin’s album “In Concert”

17. “Private Dancer” singer

19. Letters on vessels from 6-Down

20. Spot to jot

21. Lear’s middle daughter

22. “Be Yourself” singer

27. Place for pullets

28. Cher or Beyoncé, e.g.

29. Enthusiastic devotees

33. Month, in Mexico

35. Monthly check

37. Jersey greeting?

38. “People” singer

43. Looking sick

44. Persian monarch

45. Yoga venue, perhaps

46. Betray surprise

48. “The Unanswered Question” composer

50. Units of resistance

53. “Set the Night to Music” singer

57. Blessing preceder

60. Landon who lost in 1936

61. Head for a pub?

62. “Incomparable” singer

66. See 16-Across

67. Up to the task

68. Botch

69. Cost of cards

70. Suite spot?

71. Symbols of sturdiness

72. Plateau's kin

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Down

1. *Fill the tank

2. Insect egg case

3. Silently acknowledges

4. Flock female

5. Web banner, often

6. Adm.’s org.

7. Word before cow, horse or lion

8. DDE’s predecessor

9. Hurtle

10. Wedding symbol

11. Notion

12. Hex sign holder

14. List-shortening abbr

18. Business card info

20. Eleventh day gifts

23. Mummy’s place

24. Person who wrongly insists that Obama was born in Kenya

25. At any time

26. Track divisions

30. Thurman of Kill Bill

31. Cargo unit

32. Lawn makeup

34. Indian honorific

36. Warning

38. Tom Hanks movie

39. As done by

40. “Treasure Island” author’s initials

42. Monologuist Mort

47. President follower

49. Stadium part

51. NBA Hall of Famer Karl

52. Talent seekers

54. 'That's so cute!'

55. Plus

56. Divided peninsula

57. Miles away

58. Baja resort, familiarly

59. Hawaiian port

63. Music genre

64. Through

65. Not just wonder

66. The sibs and ’rents

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