Nickname for a former Yankee slugger Crossword Clue

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Nickname for a former Yankee slugger Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SLUGGER (noun)
1. a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches
2. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
FORMER (adjective)
1. belonging to some prior time
2. belonging to the distant past
FORMER (noun)
1. the first of two or the first mentioned of two

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More New Yorker Crossword (4/30/2025) Answers

Across

1. Charged particles

5. Admits fault for

11. Sticker on a lapel?

14. Gauge that must hit eighty-eight for the DeLorean to time-travel, in “Back to the Future”

16. Artist and activist Yoko

17. Trying to manage the unmanageable, per a feline metaphor

18. Reproductive treatment, briefly

19. Filmmaking siblings Ethan and Joel

20. Rom-com in which Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey and Dorothy Michaels

22. Make more coarse

25. Learn by ___ (memorize)

26. Hall of Fame shortstop Ripken

29. M.I.T.'s ___ School of Management

30. Trees with needles and cones

31. Sound produced digitally?

33. Off-roader sometimes called a quad bike

34. Semi-aquatic mammal voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith in “Madagascar”

35. You and me both

39. Dulce de ___ (caramel-like confection)

40. Air traffic org.

41. Magazine whose title means “she” in French

42. Geico’s spokeslizard, for example

43. ___ cake (ring-shaped dessert)

45. Caustic ingredient in some drain cleaners

46. Qualified

47. Hangs like a pendant earring

49. Plunderers of ancient treasures, e.g.

51. Faith for a pilgrim to Mecca

54. Like numbers above zero: Abbr.

55. Easternmost body of water in a Great quintet

59. Chowed down

60. Stephen Sondheim musical subtitled “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

61. Certain hallucinogenic drug

62. Velvety growth for a moose

63. "The Sopranos" star Falco

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Down

1. Approximately

2. Intl. oil-market alliance

3. Emperor during the Great Fire of Rome

4. Holiday meal with a symbolic shank bone and bitter herbs

5. Diplomatic outpost that might be confused with an embassy

6. “NO! Srsly?”

7. Chest muscle, familiarly

8. ___ Island (borough where the New York City Marathon course begins)

9. Grand ___ National Park (attraction south of Yellowstone)

10. Approximately

11. Tactic intended to make a hostile takeover unpalatable

12. Like an event whose attendees must be on the list

13. Lure in some credit-card marketing

15. Iguanodons and velociraptors, for short

21. Hit that’s not quite a homer

23. Aesthetic associated with black clothing and dark makeup

24. “Hope it’s a blast!”

26. CBS forensic drama franchise

27. Footwear such as chukkas and Chelseas

28. Road sign that warns of an upcoming merge

30. Treat sometimes served à la mode

32. Pool player’s target

34. Performer listed first on a music-festival poster

36. “Doctor ___” (show with TARDIS-based travel)

37. Rattlesnake’s venom-injecting tooth

38. '__ whiz!'

42. Girls’-weekend attendee, say

43. Container for picnic supplies

44. Short-tempered

47. Attracted (to)

48. Roofing material made of metamorphic rock

50. “Frozen” character based loosely on Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen

53. Skirt that’s between a mini and a maxi in length

56. Slithery fish

57. Last word shouted before “Happy New Year!”

58. Tribute in verse form

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