- BASES
- Four of diamonds?
- Intimacy benchmarks, say
- Some are being closed
- Soft pads in a diamond
- Safe spots on a diamond
- First, second, and third
- Diamond corners
- Private parts?
- Stepped-on sacks
- Military locations
- Diamond quartet
- Where many folks get into messes
- Infield bags
- They may be stolen at Shea
- Underpinnings
- Cobb stole many
- They're sometimes loaded on the field
- Points in a diamond
- Points on a diamond?
- Private spots?
- They may be loaded on the field
- They might be loaded
- Diamond quartet (and this puzzle's theme)
- Corners on a diamond
- First and third
- Military installations
- Outposts
- They may be stolen
- They're occasionally loaded
- Corners of a diamond
- Command posts
- Diamond markers
- Home and others
- They're sometimes loaded
- Foundations
- Diamond bags
- Bottom supports
- They might be stolen
- Military operations centers
- Support pieces
- Stops on the way home?
- Fenway corners
- Sacks of diamonds?
- Diamond foursome
- Wrigley Field corners
- Bags on a diamond
- Wrigley corners
- Army posts
- They're rounded by runners
- Acid neutralizers
- Military spots
- They may be loaded
- Air Force outposts
- Centers of operations
- Lab liquids
- Air Force installations
- Headquarters
- Establishes
- Army outposts
- Air Force locations
- Grounds
- Naval outposts
- Diamond collection
- Diamond squares
- Stopping places when heading toward home
- They're 15 inches square
- Naval supply depots.
- Naval supply points.
- Localities relied on for supplies.
- Our profit on fifty destroyers.
- Strategic strongholds.
- What a grand slam depopulates.
- Military localities.
- Military necessity.
- The "hot corner" and others.
- Laudable diamond thefts.
- Military depots.
- Objects of diamond larceny.
- Sacks.
- A diamond has three.
- First, second, third.
- Thule, Pearl Harbor, etc.
- Depots.
- Okinawa, Guam, etc.
- Fortified points.
- Groundworks.
- Centers of operation.
- Items often stolen.
- Infield items.
- Diamond thefts.
- Ball game necessities.
- Guantanamo and others.
- Military centers
- First, second, etc.
- Column areas
- Guantanamo et al.
- Infield features
- Parts of a diamond
- Touch all the ___
- Fundamentals
- Touch all ___
- Plinths
- Diamond points
- Fundamental principles
- Fenway foursome
- Bottoms
- Sometimes they're loaded
- Pedestals, e.g.
- Bags of diamonds
- They're covered on diamonds
- They're sometimes stolen
- Runners may round them
- First, second, third and home
- Substances high on the 49-Across
- Cover all the ___
- First, second and third, but not fourth
- Rounded items?
- Army locales
- Contents of three squares in this puzzle, per an old comedy routine
- Loaded things?
- Ammonia and lye
- Diamond parts that are rounded
- They may be loaded or covered
- They might be loaded with singles
- Things frequently stolen
- Ballpark quartet
- They're at least a 7
- They might be loaded at Shea
- GIs' places
- See 78-Across
- What Meat Loaf went around in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
- What an agent has covered
- Manager has them covered
- Good politicians cover all of them
- Political power centers
- Air Force locales
- They're sometimes stolen in Yankee Stadium
- Foursome on a diamond
- Four at Camden Yards
- You need speed to steal them
- Things to run past
- You must be quick to steal them
- They may get loaded at the baseball game
- They're rounded on the way home
- Barracks sites
- Baseball quartet
- They get loaded at Fenway
- They turn red litmus paper blue
- They may be stolen or loaded
- What Pirates may steal
- Air-force units e.g.
- First and second for example
- Military camps
- Support units
- Baseball foursome
- Predicates
- A dinger gets you four
- Military posts
- Ballpark thefts
- They may be loaded or stolen
- Bags on diamonds
- Thefts on diamonds
- They're rounded after homers
- Acids' opposites
- Corners of softball diamonds
- Alkalis
- They can be loaded
- Private places?
- Diamond features
- Infield quartet
- Runners' stops
- They form diamonds
