- TRIPLE
- Word that appears 20 times on a Scrabble board
- Three-bagger
- Baseball rarity
- Big hit
- Hit that goes all the way to the warning track, maybe
- Almost make it home
- Exciting hit
- 9 to 3, e.g.
- Not quite a homer
- Rarest baseball hit
- Word with play or threat
- With 5-Down, an orange-flavored liqueur
- Part of a cycle, in baseball
- Achievement that gets someone close to home?
- Baseball hit where the runner finishes at the hot corner
- Get close to home, in a way
- Multiply by three
- Hardest part of hitting for the cycle
- Enlarge, and then some
- Before threat or time
- Hit that rolls to the wall, maybe
- __ Crown
- Rare baseball hit
- Three-base hit
- One of Willie Mays's 20 in 1957
- __ threat: performer who can sing, dance and act
- Hit that clears the bases
- Rare hit for most catchers
- With 47-Down, multitalented Broadway star ... or what's "veiled" in this puzzle's circles
- Least common hit
- Almost a homer
- One of Willie Mays' MLB career 140
- Bases-clearing hit
- Three-in-one
- __ sec (liqueur)
- Threefold
- Extra-large drink
- Least common base hit
- Toughest hit to get in the cycle
- A creditable hit.
- Extra-base hit.
- Baseball term.
- Baseball hit.
- ___ threat man.
- Baseball play.
- Base hit.
- Certain hit
- Near-homer
- Big one in baseball
- Racing's ___ Crown
- Crown for Secretariat
- Kind of crown
- Bases clearer
- Homer's next of kin
- Kind of crown or play
- Kind of play or crown
- Long hit at Shea
- Quite a hit
- Superlarge drink
- Not quite a run
- Quite a diving somersault
- Rare hit for a slow runner
- Rare play
- One of Ty Cobb's record 295 in the A.L.
- With 39-Across, impressive basketball feat ... or a feature shared by the answers to the six starred clues
- It gets you close to home
- Almost a home run
- Hardest hit to get in baseball
- Big hit in baseball
- ___ word score (Scrabble board phrase)
- Baseball's toughest hit
- Make a big hit
- Hardest hit to get
- Rare hit
- Hardest baseball hit to get
- Rarity for a lumbering slugger
- Rare hit for a slow-footed batter
- Increase by a factor of three
- McGwire rarity
- With 24-Down, cosmopolitan ingredient
- Hit denoted as 3B in a box score
- Big hit in the ballpark
- Strong drink request
- Batting feat
- Rare batting feat
