Ninth-inning pitcher
The crossword clue "Ninth-inning pitcher" is answered by CLOSER, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CLOSER
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLOSER answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CLOSER
Every other clue in this collection answered by CLOSER, most used first.
- More intimate - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Less distant - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Kind of pitcher - RELIEF, used 10 times
- Faced the pitcher - BATTED, used 9 times
- Inning half - BOTTOM, used 8 times
- ___ pitcher (bullpen figure) - RELIEF, used 8 times
- Key of Beethoven's Ninth - DMINOR, used 7 times
- Batting ninth - UPLAST, used 6 times
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