Crossword-Solution: BACKSTOP
We have 18 clues for the answer “BACKSTOP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ball catcher behind a catcher | 1 answer |
| screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area | 1 answer |
| Screen behind home plate | 1 answer |
| It's behind home plate | 1 answer |
| Berra, Campy or Westrum. | 1 answer |
| Ball park screen. | 1 answer |
| Baseball necessity. | 2 answers |
| upholder | 5 answers |
| baseball area | 9 answers |
| AREA IN BASEBALL | 15 answers |
| Catcher | 15 answers |
| bolster | 56 answers |
| Pick up | 63 answers |
| CARRY ___ | 64 answers |
| BASEBALL term | 65 answers |
| buttress | 66 answers |
| Champion | 79 answers |
| BACK ___! | 117 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKSTOP (5)
But even with a brand-new cricket ball this game palls after a time when one has to bowl and bat and backstop in solitary state.
Each time one sailed away over the backstop, it was like the pop of a safety-valve; it averted an explosion.
She was out of the cell before it hit the backstop and following me down the hall towards her brother's room.
Finally, the tenth shot smacked against the backstop and he racked his weapon and punched at the target return button.
Then I saw Kitty--and I didn't think of the distance after that." "You looked about as big as a fish hawk diving for his dinner," remarked Cleo, "and you nipped Kitty just as neatly as a hawk pecks his fish." "I felt just like that--it is birdlike to dive from such a distance," Louise said, "and cutting through the air, free of everything--is--is wonderful." "Even with the ocean as a backstop?" asked Helen shivering.
Quotes with BACKSTOP (3)
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement where the E.U. holds a veto over our ability to exit.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).