Answer: BALL
BALL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 151 times.
Referring Clues:
- Débutante's affair
 - Horsehide or pigskin
 - Formal dance
 - Musket missile
 - "Cinderella" event
 - Good time
 - Wax unit?
 - Nine __ (billiards game)
 - Bouncer?
 - Word that can follow the ends of 17-, 26-, 43- and 58-Across
 - Eight __ (black sphere)
 - Event attended by Cinderella
 - Event for Cinderella
 - Bouncer
 - Masquerader's event
 - Fun time
 - Something passed in courts
 - Diamond object
 - A circus seal might balance one
 - Tea __ (perforated tea holder)
 - Blast
 - Part of the foot
 - Cinderella's destination
 - Pitch out of the strike zone
 - Randy Johnson miss
 - Outside pitch, for one
 - Word after medicine or crystal
 - Object in many sports
 - 25% of a walk
 - Fancy dance
 - High pitch, say
 - Word with fur or fuzz
 - Bowler's roller
 - Word with 23-Across
 - Annual Times Square dropper
 - Formal
 - Ump's call
 - Great time
 - Musket projectile
 - Sphere
 - Cotillion
 - Deb's event
 - It may be masked
 - ''Chain'' companion
 - Word with ''eight'' or ''fast''
 - Umpire's call
 - Society event
 - Socket counterpart
 - Word with eight or fast
 - Walk on the fourth?
 - Social event for Scarlett
 - Terrific time
 - It may be carried or dropped
 - "Costume" party
 - Really good time
 - Event with gowns
 - Yarn unit
 - "Chain" companion
 - Word with "eight" or "fast"
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 - Wax unit
 - Black eight, e.g.
 - Snow missile
 - Dance
 - Debutante's party
 - Chain's companion
 - Simple toy
 - Chain's partner
 - 'I Love Lucy star'
 - Golf need
 - 'I Love Lucy' star
 - Target for 39-Across
 - 'Cinderella' setting
 - Metaphorical wax shape
 - See 25-Down
 - Object that may be struck by the starts of the answers to starred clues
 - Pet toy
 - Nursery toy
 - Swell time
 - Round object
 - High-pitched cry from an ump?
 - Event Cinderella attended
 - Bad thing to drop in business
 - Bouncing toy
 - Dodge ______
 - Socialite's party
 - Arnaz's collaborator in comedy
 - It has a red stripe in pool
 - Cinderella's soiree
 - Formal party
 - Screen redhead
 - Toy "wrapped" in the answer at 43-Across
 - One blowing up a lottery machine?
 - Playground bouncer
 - *Rocking good time
 - See 36-Across
 - Gala event
 - Hard or soft sphere
 - Elaborate dance
 - ___ and chain
 - Umpire's cry
 - Cinderella's dance
 - See 12-Down ... and a word that can follow the ends of the answers to starred clues
 - See 10 Down
 - ___ bearing
 - *Event in "Cinderella"
 - Tennis racket's target
 - Soiree
 - Chain partner
 - Strike's opposite
 - Soccer sphere
 - Pigskin or horsehide
 - Formal affair
 - Tennis racket target
 - Redhead of classic TV
 - ___ state (David Letterman"s alma mater)
 - Dance event
 - Gala affair
 - Spalding or Voit product
 - Part 3 of quote
 - Where Cinderella lost her slipper
 - High pitch, maybe
 - 33-Down need
 - *Kind of pen
 - "Cinderella" setting
 - Super time
 - Cricket need
 - Part of a Cinderella story
 - Lucille of "i love lucy"
 - Sports item absent from wrestling and track
 - Need in many outdoor games
 - "Cinderella" dance
 - Off pitch? ... and a hint to the starred answers' starts
 - Word after "screw" or "stick"
 - Twentieth-century chemist Alice
 - Sepak takraw item
 - What Fido might fetch
 - Item for fetch or catch
 - Matzo ___ soup
 - Orb
 - Word before "gown" or "bearing"
 - Fancy party
 - Lucille who played Lucy
 - Sitcom pioneer Lucille
 - *Alert
 - Foot part
 - Wad (up)
 - ___ culture ("Pose" subject)
 - Table tennis need
 - Word with hard or soft
 - High-and-outside pitch, say
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - July 20, 2025
 - USA Today - December 18, 2024
 - LA Times - July 25, 2024
 - USA Today - June 17, 2024
 - USA Today - May 01, 2024
 - New York Times - December 31, 2023
 - New York Times - December 31, 2023
 - New York Times - December 31, 2023
 - New York Times - December 31, 2023
 - New York Times - December 31, 2023
 - LA Times - December 15, 2023
 - LA Times - December 12, 2023
 - USA Today - November 20, 2023
 - USA Today - October 11, 2023
 - LA Times - November 11, 2022
 - USA Today - May 31, 2022
 - USA Today - April 27, 2022
 - LA Times - October 11, 2021
 - USA Today - August 03, 2021
 - Netword - June 05, 2021
 
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