Answer: PUNT
PUNT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 77 times.
Referring Clues:
- Fourth-down option
 - Give up, slangily
 - Fourth down option
 - Football kick
 - Admit defeat, in a way
 - Give up the pigskin
 - Kick without a tee
 - Gridiron kick
 - Equivocate
 - Quarterback option
 - It precedes a return
 - Kick
 - Gridiron option on fourth down
 - Giant kick
 - Kick with a "hang time"
 - Fourth-down call
 - Bears' strategy
 - Fourth-down play
 - Equivocate, so to speak
 - Fourth-down decision, sometimes
 - Turn over the pigskin, in a way
 - Fourth-down play, often
 - It's a kick
 - One way to transfer the pigskin
 - Football strategy
 - Gridiron maneuver
 - Fourth-down decision, often
 - Kick with a hang time
 - Grid play
 - Usual fourth down play
 - Football play
 - Rubber raft
 - Kick on fourth
 - Pass a problem on
 - Give up the ball
 - Quarterback's option
 - Football tactic
 - Fourth-down decision
 - Fourth-down kick
 - Flat boat
 - Flat-bottomed boat
 - Football option
 - Abandon one's efforts, informally
 - Pass the buck
 - Pre-euro Irish coin
 - Pass the buck, informally
 - High up
 - Bad choice on first down
 - Give up, at least for now
 - Pole down the Thames
 - Throw in the towel
 - Fourth and long strategy
 - Cede the pigskin, in a way
 - Fourth down play
 - It's propelled by a pole
 - Three-and-out follower, in football
 - Common play on fourth down
 - Grid iron kick
 - Many a fourth-down play
 - Gridiron strategy
 - Fourth-and-long play, often
 - Result of a sack on third and long, maybe
 - Skerry
 - "Three and out" football play
 - Fourth-and-long option
 - Kick a football
 - Not face the issue
 - Give up (on)
 - Get rid of the ball, in a way
 - Kick from a football team?
 - Defer for now
 - Drop kick
 - Defer a decision, informally
 - Special teams responsibility
 - Delay deciding, informally
 - Side kick?
 - Common fourth-and-long decision
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - July 21, 2025
 - New York Times - July 09, 2025
 - New York Times - June 25, 2025
 - LA Times - June 15, 2025
 - LA Times - February 19, 2024
 - USA Today - November 27, 2023
 - LA Times - November 16, 2023
 - LA Times - November 08, 2023
 - USA Today - August 17, 2023
 - New York Times - August 10, 2022
 - USA Today - April 05, 2022
 - New York Times - August 21, 2021
 - LA Times - June 11, 2021
 - LA Times - May 26, 2021
 - Universal - April 09, 2021
 - Universal - February 15, 2021
 - New York Times - January 20, 2021
 - New York Times - December 20, 2020
 - Netword - September 07, 2020
 - USA Today - June 04, 2020
 
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