Hard-hit ball

The answer

LINER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LINER answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LINER

Every other clue in this collection answered by LINER, most used first.

• Cruise ship - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Cruise vessel - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Hard-hit baseball - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Ship. - used 13 times, most recently in 2002
• Large ocean vessel - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Ocean greyhound - used 10 times, most recently in 1993
• Vessel. - used 10 times, most recently in 1995
• Big ship - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye makeup - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Big boat - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Passenger ship - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Protective covering - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• QE2, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Sharply hit baseball - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Trash can insert - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• On the ball - ALERT, used 145 times
• Works hard - TOILS, used 80 times
• Big hit - SMASH, used 75 times
• Ball girl - BELLE, used 46 times
• Hard work - LABOR, used 38 times
• Hard stuff - BOOZE, used 36 times

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