VERB: "to push or tap (a baseball) lightly with a bat without swinging" Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for VERB: "to push or tap (a baseball) lightly with a bat without swinging" crossword clue, last seen in the Missing Letter Crossword January 6, 2025 puzzle. Sometimes we all need some help finding the answer!

VERB: "to push or tap (a baseball) lightly with a bat without swinging" Crossword Answer

↓12.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
2. to strike, thrust or shove against
(noun)
1. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
2. similar to Tilletia caries

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SWINGING (adjective)
1. characterized by a buoyant rhythm
SWINGING (noun)
1. changing location by moving back and forth
LIGHTLY (adverb)
1. in a small quantity or extent
2. with few burdens

More Missing Letter Crossword (1/6/2025) Answers

Across

1. NOUN: "an area constructed, equipped, or marked for sports"

6. Law & Order: __

9. TRADEMARK: "used especially for any of a number of golden statuettes awarded annually by a professional organization for notable achievement in movies"

10. ADJECTIVE: "of or relating to [a male] especially as possessor, agent, or object of an action"

11. VERB: "to move into the frame of a [picture] as it is being taken as a joke or prank"

13. Largest human bone

14. "Seinfeld" title role, casually

16. Access to a building, say

19. ___ accompli (done deal, to the French)

21. NOUN: "a native or inhabitant of...a kingdom in southeastern Asia"

22. NOUN: "a private organization staging festivities (such as parades) during Mardi Gras in New Orleans"

24. VERB: "to make (someone) more excited or energetic...often used with 'up'"

25. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Richard Milhous 1913–1994 American politician; vice president of the U.S. (1953–61); 37th president of the U.S. (1969–74)"

27. NOUN: "the fourth [part] of the week"

31. Not just online, briefly

32. ADJECTIVE: "easily seen through"

33. AUXILIARY VERB: "used to indicate possibility or probability"

34. Pops

All Answers

Down

1. Well-dressed man, to haters

2. ADJECTIVE SUFFIX: "having a touch or trace of"

3. ADJECTIVE: "not environmentally harmful"

4. ADJECTIVE: "coming or remaining after the due, usual, or proper time"

5. NOUN COMBINING FORM: "racecourse"

6. ADJECTIVE: "having, working with, or done with fewer than the regular or necessary number of people"

7. NOUN: "robust energy and enthusiasm"

8. NOUN: "a standardized serial computer interface that allows simplified attachment of peripherals especially in a daisy chain"

14. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "1917–1963 American politician; 35th president of the U.S. (1961–63)"

15. Musical taste

17. NOUN: "a male sheep"

18. VERB: "to bark sharply, quickly, and often continuously"

20. Pollux or Mary-Kate Olsen, say

23. Top company brass

26. Scandinavian city

27. ___ Wenders (director of the acclaimed 2023 film "Perfect Days")

28. Historical period

29. Battery size

30. Decade pts.

All Answers