Ball in a basket
The crossword clue "Ball in a basket" is answered by YARN, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
YARN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YARN answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for YARN
Every other clue in this collection answered by YARN, most used first.
- Tall tale - used 68 times, most recently in 2024
- Tale - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Fish story - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitter's need - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitting need - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Story - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Kitten's plaything - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Knitting material - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Tall story - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
- Knitter's material - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitter's ball - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Knitter's purchase - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- It's a long story - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Ball material - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Knitter's supply - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- "The one that got away," e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- ___-Ball (arcade game) - SKEE, used 167 times
- ___-Ball - SKEE, used 150 times
- Drops the ball - ERRS, used 69 times
- Crystal ball gazer - SEER, used 66 times
- Crystal ball user - SEER, used 61 times
- Ball-___ hammer - PEEN, used 59 times
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