The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BEATS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2014.
Local politics and high school sports, for news reporters crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BEATS | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Local politics and high school sports, for news reporters
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Crossword Answer definitions
BEATS noun- A stroke; a blow.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- A precinct.
- A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- A low cheat or swindler.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- To hit; strike
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To rob.
- A beatnik.
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