Swings for the fences
The crossword clue "Swings for the fences" is answered by BATS, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
BATS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BATS answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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