Answer: SPIKE
SPIKE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 58 times.
Referring Clues:
- Net feat
 - Sudden upturn, as in sales
 - Shoot up
 - Volleyball kill
 - Sudden increase
 - Add liquor to, as punch
 - Sudden increase on a graph
 - Abrupt increase on a graph
 - Unusually high 17-Across
 - Railroad track fastener
 - Court smash
 - Sports-shoe feature
 - Volleyball smash
 - Anomalous rise
 - Volleyball maneuver
 - Sudden, brief increase
 - Lace
 - Really high heel
 - Peak on a graph
 - Berton's The Last ______
 - Volleyball coup
 - Orthodox image
 - Abrupt rise
 - Temporary increase
 - Director Lee
 - Railroading nail
 - 'Manswers' network
 - Volleyball tactic
 - Type of heel
 - Piton, for one
 - Rail nail
 - With 17-Across, 'Do the Right Thing' director
 - Increase sharply
 - Volleyball manoeuvre
 - A very high narrow heel on women's shoe
 - Huge nail
 - Extremely high heel
 - Electric surge
 - Track fastener
 - Feature of a punk hairdo
 - Add alcohol to, as punch
 - Electrical surge
 - Powerful volleyball shot
 - Sudden variation in voltage
 - Piton, e.g.
 - Railroad nail
 - Sharp increase
 - Skewer
 - Abrupt increase
 - End-zone celebration
 - Exciting volleyball play
 - Hard hit in volleyball
 - Volleyball shot
 - Powerful pickleball shot
 - 53-Across feature, as seen three times in this puzzle
 - Sudden surge
 - Certain volleyball hit
 - Brief increase
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 08, 2025
 - New York Times - September 10, 2025
 - LA Times - January 17, 2025
 - New York Times - October 03, 2024
 - New York Times - December 19, 2023
 - LA Times - August 31, 2023
 - USA Today - July 21, 2023
 - USA Today - May 29, 2023
 - USA Today - February 03, 2022
 - New York Times - September 14, 2021
 - USA Today - June 29, 2021
 - Universal - January 16, 2021
 - Netword - November 22, 2020
 - Netword - November 13, 2019
 - Netword - September 18, 2019
 - LA Times - May 04, 2019
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 06, 2018
 - New York Times - September 19, 2017
 - Netword - September 13, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 03, 2017
 
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