Answer: CAP
CAP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 279 times.
Referring Clues:
- Beanie
 - Balmoral, e.g.
 - Tam-o'-shanter
 - Beret
 - Tube top
 - Kind of gun
 - Topper
 - Kind of pistol
 - Insignia site
 - Diamond topper
 - Spending limit
 - Limit
 - Put a lid on
 - Insignia spot
 - Mushroom morsel
 - Top off
 - Salary limit
 - Toy gun noisemaker
 - Mortarboard
 - Lens protector
 - Upper limit
 - Part of some uniforms
 - Top
 - Mortarboard, e.g.
 - Mushroom part
 - Part of a baseball uniform
 - Commencement wear
 - Salary max
 - Budget limit
 - Place for a team's insignia
 - Part of graduation attire
 - Oil well feature
 - Culmination
 - Feather holder?
 - Ceiling
 - See 17-Across
 - It's often put on backward
 - With 13-Down, they go off with a bang
 - Climax
 - Put a ceiling on
 - Gown's partner
 - Toy gun ammo
 - Jockey's wear
 - Beret or beanie
 - What a teen often wears backwards
 - Detonating device
 - Part of a graduate's ensemble
 - It may be placed on a salary
 - Deerstalker, e.g.
 - Hat with a visor
 - Pen cover
 - Cardinal's cover
 - Toy gun insert
 - Head covering
 - Biretta or beret
 - Toy gun "ammo"
 - Small explosive
 - Topper on the diamond
 - Outdo
 - "Yankee Doodle" headgear
 - Smurf topper
 - Something tossed up after graduation
 - Part of an umpire's uniform
 - Salary restriction
 - Part of a ballplayer's uniform
 - Tipping point?
 - Lid
 - Seal, as an oil well
 - Ceiling of a sort
 - Spot for a feather
 - Team spending limit on player salaries
 - Baseball headgear
 - Mushroom topper
 - Diamond headgear
 - State govt. seat (and what each surname is in 17- and 62-Across and 11- and 25-Down)
 - Toothpaste tube cover
 - Pop-bottle topper
 - Toothpaste-tube cover
 - Surpass
 - Baseball player's hat
 - Bottle topper
 - Highest level
 - Mushroom top
 - Keep from increasing
 - Dental work
 - Maximum level
 - Toothpaste-tube closer
 - Baseball fan's hat
 - Restrict, perhaps
 - Deerstalker, for one
 - The end of night?
 - Crownwork
 - Maximum spending limit
 - Graduating student's headwear
 - Yankees uniform item
 - Twist-off, e.g.
 - One may be applied to salaries
 - Bit of toy ammo
 - Financial limit
 - Ammo for a small gun
 - Maximum limit
 - Toothpaste topper
 - Ceiling figure
 - Mushroom feature
 - Ballplayer's headwear
 - Pitcher's top
 - Yankee's cover
 - Price limit
 - ___ and gown
 - Budgeting concern
 - Brimless hat
 - Salary ceiling
 - Toy-pistol ammo
 - Ballplayer's headgear
 - Gown partner
 - Pop's top, perhaps
 - ___ and trade
 - Trade partner?
 - Lid for a lad
 - Kepi
 - "Lid" in each of this puzzle's theme entries
 - Trade's partner
 - Lad's lid
 - Put a limit on
 - Limit, as a salary
 - Baseball team insignia site
 - Graduation flier
 - Baseball hat
 - Beanie or beret
 - Pinnacle
 - Ballpark souvenir
 - Dentist's offering
 - Beret, for one
 - Pitcher's chapeau
 - Ballplayer's hat
 - Upper bound
 - Baseballer's topper
 - Ball-player's headgear
 - Type of headgear
 - Baseballer's hat
 - Price ceiling
 - Beret, e.g.
 - Fez or beret
 - Beanie, e.g.
 - Tam, e.g.
 - With "and" and 40-Across, emissions-reducing method whose first word (this answer) can follow the start of the answers to starred clues
 - Pitcher's topper
 - Beer-bottle topper
 - Maximum
 - Hat
 - Gas-tank topper
 - Investment money, briefly, or this puzzle's theme, backward
 - Restrict, in a way
 - Pirate headgear
 - Bottle top
 - Uniform item, perhaps
 - Tam O' Shanter, for one
 - Keep from going higher
 - Kiddie gun ammo
 - Beret or biretta
 - Twist-off thingy
 - Chickadee feature
 - Lid or chapeau
 - Very small explosive
 - Something tossed on the last day of school
 - Tassel spot
 - Gas-tank stopper
 - Stadium souvenir
 - Tube top?
 - See 42-Across
 - Thinking thingie
 - Santa suit part
 - Toy pistol need
 - Cover
 - Place for a baseball insignia
 - Oriole's crown?
 - Headgear
 - Where to find a soft drink's promotional code
 - Budgetary concern
 - Headgear often worn backward
 - Angel's wear
 - Visored headgear
 - Word with baseball or gas
 - Pop top
 - Bottle cover
 - Fez, for one
 - Nurse's topper
 - Tooth cover
 - Baseball player's topper
 - Artificial crown for a tooth
 - Oriole topper
 - Part of a baseball player's getup
 - Spending ceiling
 - Gown's go-with
 - Fez or kepi
 - Place for a tassel, maybe
 - Baseball uniform part
 - Top of a mushroom
 - See 111-Across
 - Item of apparel often worn backward
 - Toothpaste tube topper
 - Marker top
 - Expense limit
 - Tam or fez
 - Budgetary limit
 - Cough syrup cover
 - Partner of trade
 - Budgeter's concern
 - Baseball topper
 - Bit of attire sometimes worn backward
 - Bit of toy "ammo"
 - Relative of a 1-Across
 - Golfer's hat
 - Mad or red follower
 - Headwear
 - Deck post topper
 - Lid or limit
 - Gas tank cover
 - Top of a toothpaste tube
 - Underworld boss
 - Baseballer's wear
 - Ruth wore one
 - Put limits on
 - Contain, as a spewing oil well
 - Ceiling starting 19-Down
 - Ballplayer's topper
 - Upstage
 - Small hat
 - Place for a 25-Across
 - Much of a mushroom
 - Jack somack's "ball four" role
 - One may be twist-off
 - Gown go-with
 - Hat for an Angel
 - Tassel's place
 - Stopper, of a sort
 - Gown complement
 - Graduating senior's decoration project
 - Toothpaste tube closer
 - Nat's hat
 - Partner of gown or trade
 - Item of headwear
 - Soda bottle top
 - Graduation need
 - Word after "baseball" or "bathing"
 - Souvenir shop purchase
 - Gear with a bill
 - Place for a baseball team's insignia
 - Toothpaste tube top
 - Word after "ice" or "shower"
 - Word after "gas" or "bottle"
 - Highest level allowed
 - Twistable container part
 - Word after "spending" or "thinking"
 - Max
 - Close-fitting hat
 - Cutoff point
 - Part of an oil well, maybe
 - Shiitake part
 - What a retractable pen lacks
 - Beanie, for example
 - Graduate's headwear
 - Word with baseball or bottle
 - Lens ___
 - Toadstool topper
 - Uniform item, often
 - "Put on your thinking ___"
 - A mushroom's is called a pileus
 - Cough syrup dosage unit, maybe
 - Word after "price" or "ice"
 - Lie, in slang
 - Complete, with "off"
 - Beer bottle top
 - Pen lid
 - Fitted ___
 - Put a restriction on
 - New Era product
 - Locale for a Snapple fact
 - Topper for a head or a pen
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - November 03, 2025
 - USA Today - October 31, 2025
 - LA Times - October 17, 2025
 - USA Today - August 21, 2025
 - New York Times - August 10, 2025
 - LA Times - August 02, 2025
 - USA Today - July 31, 2025
 - LA Times - June 05, 2025
 - LA Times - May 28, 2025
 - USA Today - May 21, 2025
 - LA Times - January 30, 2025
 - LA Times - January 21, 2025
 - LA Times - December 22, 2024
 - New York Times - December 03, 2024
 - New York Times - November 17, 2024
 - New York Times - October 19, 2024
 - USA Today - October 11, 2024
 - LA Times - September 28, 2024
 - LA Times - September 10, 2024
 - USA Today - August 20, 2024
 
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