- Wall Street Journal Crossword
- October 9 2024
- Sink the cue ball
Sink the cue ball
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| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | SCRATCH | Sink the cue ball | Wall Street Journal |
Definition
| • | To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. |
| • | To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. |
| • | To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out. |
| • | To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow. |
| • | To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches. |
| • | To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. |
| • | A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision. |
| • | A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. |
| • | Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. |
| • | A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head. |
| • | A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke. |
| • | Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards. |
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- Wall Street Journal: Oct 9, 2024
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