Answer: NINE
NINE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 434 times.
Referring Clues:
- Prime time hour
- Emergency CB channel
- Common opening time
- See left
- Excellent-plus rating
- Supreme Court count
- Opening time, maybe
- Lowest card in pinochle
- Mozart's age, when he wrote his Fifth Symphony
- Prime-time hour
- Five after four
- Target number in baccarat
- Shift start, for many
- Shop-opening time
- Baseball team complement
- Billiard ball with a yellow stripe
- Cloud ___
- Ted Williams wore it
- Cardinal with a loop
- 1982 Tony musical
- Pretty high rating
- Kind of iron
- Number dialed before two ones
- Muses count
- A perfect square
- Reindeer team, counting Rudolph
- Prime-time time
- With 5- and 10-Across, need for 69-, 70- and 71-Across
- Musical with the song "Be Italian"
- Salinger's "___ Stories"
- Almost perfect rating
- "A stitch in time saves __"
- "The Whole ___ Yards"
- Diamond complement
- Store opening time
- See 25-Down
- Punch-in time for many
- Highest score in baccarat
- Roger Maris's number
- Shortest iron, in golf
- Yellow-striped ball in pool
- Excellent gymnastics score
- First digit in a California ZIP code
- Small square
- Full complement of baseball players
- U.S. highway with a ferry connection between Delaware and New Jersey
- Low square
- Start of a critical call
- Musical based on a Fellini film
- Quick outing on the links
- A round of golf, informally
- Three's opposite on a clock face
- Cat lives count
- Ball with a yellow stripe
- It's a square
- Fine diving score
- *Start of a 38-Across
- Almost perfect?
- Last digit in a price, often
- Clementine's shoe size
- Half a golf course
- Cloud number?
- Bo Derek wannabe?
- Lowest striped ball, in billiards
- Punch-in time, maybe
- Time to clock in, usually
- Early bedtime
- Half of a golf course, frequently
- Mudville complement
- With 71-Across, theme of this puzzle
- Number of planets around Sol
- Supreme Court justice count
- Diamond team
- Muse count
- Ted Williams's uniform number
- Band of Pirates?
- Three squared
- Span's inches
- Band of Indians?
- "... in the pot, ___ days old"
- Diamond cluster?
- Baseball team
- "Ladies dancing" count
- Supreme Court complement
- Baseball team minimum
- Start of a California zip code
- Muses' number
- Supreme Court number
- Number reduced by a third when inverted
- Ted Williams's number
- High card in a yarborough
- High Court count
- Right fielder, on a scorecard
- Roger Maris, for the Yankees
- Number worn by Ted Williams
- Cat-o'-___-tails
- Curvy square?
- Earned run average times innings pitched divided by earned runs given up
- Turned six?
- Half of eighteen
- Highest sudoku number
- One more than the number of different letters in this puzzle
- Best hand in baccarat
- Roger Maris wore it
- Musical inspired by Fellini's "8½"
- Course half
- Tiger iron
- Opening time
- Happy cloud number
- Diamond number
- Front __
- Workplace starting time
- Desirable cloud?
- Back __
- Highest digit
- Half of a golf course
- Top score in baccarat
- Half a course
- Three-quarters of a dozen
- Striped billiard ball
- Mudville team
- WXY, on a phone
- Workday start for many
- Midevening
- __-to-five worker
- Work-shift start, at times
- Beethoven symphony count
- Highest one-digit number
- Unbeatable baccarat hand
- "A stitch in time saves ___"
- ''A stitch in time saves ___''
- WXYZ button
- When many doors open
- Number of Muses
- Mudville number
- Comfy cloud
- Midmorning
- Baseball club
- Mudville group
- Last single digit
- Baseball starters
- ". . . in the pot, ___ days old"
- Blissful cloud
- Top baccarat score
- Number of cat lives
- Five after four?
- Love potion's number
- Yarborough high card
- Best score in baccarat
- Start of the workday, often
- Round of golf, informally
- Musical inspired by a Fellini film
- Whom "seven ate," in a joke
- Yellow-striped ball
- Three hours before noon
- September's number
- Common punch-in time
- Number of Dvorák symphonies
- On cloud ___ (elated)
- Complement of Dante's circles of hell
- Workday start, for many
- Baseball complement
- "Love Potion No. ___"
- Highest sudoku digit
- Number of diamond positions
- Square number
- Low card in pinochle
- Yellow-striped billiard ball
- First digit in an Alaskan zip code
- Cat's proverbial life count
- Flourine's Atomic Number
- Popular cloud
- Back ___
- Front ___
- Front or back at the course
- Yellow-striped pool ball
- Start time for Judy, Violet and Doralee
- ___-to-five worker
- 2009 Daniel Day-Lewis film
- Fluorine's atomic number
- Popular cloud?
- Starting time for some
- Certain pet's proverbial life count
- Cloud to be on?
- Three's opposite, on a clock face
- Places
- Baseball team
- Last single-digit number
- Cost in dollars of the world's first TV ad in 1941
- Lofted iron
- "The ___ Tailors," Dorothy L. Sayers mystery
- Largest digit
- 3/4 of a dozen
- Baseball team number
- Start of a call for help
- "Ladies dancing" carol contingent
- West Coast ZIP starter
- WXYZ, on a phone
- Near-perfect score, maybe
- 1982 Tony-winning musical
- Muse quantity
- Inverted six
- High digit
- Morning hour
- Cardinals or Blue Jays
- Shift start for many
- Musical based on Fellini film
- Shift start
- Fellini-based musical
- Mid-morning
- Day-shift start
- A dozen minus three
- '___ to Five'
- On cloud ___
- Three trios
- Popular shift starter
- Number of Supreme Court justices
- Day shift start
- Half a round
- See 122-Across
- Store opening time, often
- Highest single digit
- Number of players or innings
- Upside-down six
- Number of "lives" a cat has
- IX
- The whole ___ yards
- Supreme courtroom complement
- Golfer's front or back
- Three x three
- Baseball starters, in number
- ___ holes (half a golf round)
- Supreme Court seat count
- Count of Dante's circles of Hell
- Lucky figure in Chinese culture
- Summer sunset hour, for some
- Number of Oscars for 64-Across
- Baseball side
- Pocket billiards ball count, sometimes
- Near-perfect rating
- Pinochle low card
- Muse complement
- Love potion number
- Last numerical digit in a hexadecimal system
- Quick outing on the course
- Alaska ZIP code starter
- Lives for Garfield
- Half of a course
- Golfer's back
- First digit in a Hawaiian zip code
- Good diving score
- Ted Williams' number
- Count of the Supreme Court?
- Start of an emergency call
- Number with a line under it
- Three threes
- Pease porridge's age in days
- Evening hour
- Baseball quota
- Number before Lives or West, in brand names
- Happy cloud
- Number of holes in a half-round of golf
- Diamond group
- Ennead
- The digits in all but one of its two-digit multiples add up to it
- Opening time, often
- Almost-perfect rating
- ___ -to-fiver
- Lowest stripe
- Midmorning hour
- Number of heads of the Hydra, in myth
- Start of the workday
- What a "stitch in time" allegedly saves
- Retired number of Roger Maris
- Orioles' complement
- Baseball squad
- Innings count, usually
- Number on a diamond?
- Opening time, for many
- Three-fourths of a dozen
- "A stitch in time saves ____"
- "The ___" (book on the Court)
- Four and five, but not six and seven
- Common starting time
- Count of muses
- Number sung four times in a carol
- Front or back
- Mudville ___ (Casey's team)
- Striped yellow billiard ball
- "Front" or "back" course part
- "Star Trek: Deep Space ___"
- First word of a Dolly Parton hit
- Start of Alaskan zip codes
- Gretzky's MVP award collection
- Best hand value in baccarat
- Number dialed before 1-1
- Front ___ (course half)
- ___ -to-five
- Rock's ___ Inch Nails
- "GWTW" Oscar count
- Starting number of baseball players
- Baseball team count
- When some retire for the night
- Half of 18
- Diamond squad
- First striped billiard ball
- Strongest single-digit rating
- Mudville player count
- Good score in diving
- Whole-yards link
- When the hands form a right angle
- Highest figure in sudoku
- Back-row bowling pin
- When many clock in
- "Ladies dancing" carol count
- Musical based on Fellini's "8 1/2"
- About 38% of 24
- Work starting hour
- 1982 Tommy Tune show
- End of an early-dealing maxim
- Square after four
- End of a think-ahead adage
- Cat's number of lives
- This puzzle's theme
- Age, in days, of pease porridge of rhyme
- Number of baseball fielders
- Top sudoku digit
- Punch-in time, for many
- A prime-time hour
- Largest single-digit square
- Broadway musical: 1982
- Word with pin or fold
- The Mets or the Muses
- 29-Down count
- CB radio emergency channel
- Three square
- ___ day's wonder
- Square root of 81
- Cubs or Mets
- ___ lives
- Highest Sudoku digit, typically
- Cat's lives
- Parnassian number
- Four and five
- Common work-starting time
- Largest sudoku digit
- Soccer striker's jersey number, traditionally
- High single digit
- 30-Across' number
- Highest digit in sudoku
- Common clock-in hour
- Highest hand value in baccarat
- See 26-Down
- Zero key neighbor
- Roger Maris' uniform number
- Highest phone digit
- Quick golf outing
- Number of worlds connected by Yggdrasil in Norse myth
- Value not appearing on any Scrabble tile
- Number in a "Star Trek" series title
- Start of many a workday
- Cat's number of lives, proverbially
- Number of Supreme Court seats
- One more than 32-Down
- Important number in Sudoku grid construction
- CB channel for emergency use
- Cat lives count, so they say
- Target ball in a pool game
- Highest single-digit number
- Number of candles on a Hanukkah menorah
- Highest digit for phone numbers
- Tony-winning musical based on Fellini's "8 1/2"
- Muse tally
- Seven of ___ (Jeri Ryan's "Star Trek: Voyager" role)
- Number of seasons for "Family Matters"
- Score for a bull's-eye in archery
- Number of M.V.P. awards won by Wayne Gretzky
- Number of square feet in a square yard
- Start of every California ZIP code
- Point value of EIGHT in Scrabble
- Number that, in Chinese languages, is a homophone for "longevity," and is thus considered good luck
- Musical based on "8 1/2"
- Three times three
- Important baseball number
- When the first "Peanuts" comic appeared
- Musical with a titular number?
- Numerical symbol for September
- Point value commonly assigned to a queen in chess
- ___ Inch Nails
- Two plus three plus four
- Diamond figure
- 16-Across squared
- The sum of the digits of any multiple of ___ is a multiple of ___ (arithmetic curiosity)
- Single-digit perfect square
- Half a round on the links
- The Little Rock ___
- Number of lives cats are said to have
- Prime time time
- "Enough" number of women justices on the Supreme Court, per Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- "Cloud ___" (Temptations hit)
- What all Alaska ZIP codes start with
- Symbol of longevity in Chinese numerology
- Sudoku digit
- Impressive diving score
- First digit in California ZIP codes
- ___-Down (what this is)
- Number of billiard ball colors
- Number of worlds in Norse myth
- Digit that looks like another digit when turned upside down
- Number of innings in most baseball games
- This clue's number divided by three
- Court count
- Number of tracks on Curtis Mayfield's "Super Fly"
- Striped yellow ball
- Number of forms for the goddess Durga
- Number of Enneagram types
- Highest digit in classic sudoku
- Point value of "eight" in Scrabble
- Number of squares in a tic-tac-toe board
- –
- Number of candles on a hanukkiah
- Number that looks like an upside-down six
- Alleged number of lives for a cat
- First digit in West Coast ZIP codes
- Number of letters in Louisiana
- Number of planets before Pluto was demoted
- Number of countries whose names both start and end with "A"
- "I'm on cloud ___"
- Thrice three
- Number of "Seinfeld" seasons
- Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad
- Number of stars on "Hollywood Squares"
- Cloud ___ (blissful spot, in an idiom)
- Beginning of every Washington State ZIP code
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 25, 2025
- LA Times - September 24, 2025
- New York Times - September 15, 2025
- New York Times - July 28, 2025
- USA Today - June 17, 2025
- New York Times - June 05, 2025
- LA Times - April 28, 2025
- LA Times - April 24, 2025
- New York Times - March 31, 2025
- USA Today - February 14, 2025
- New York Times - January 31, 2025
- New York Times - December 30, 2024
- USA Today - December 23, 2024
- USA Today - November 26, 2024
- USA Today - November 22, 2024
- USA Today - November 06, 2024
- LA Times - October 22, 2024
- USA Today - October 08, 2024
- USA Today - September 30, 2024
- USA Today - September 06, 2024
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