Nights before
The crossword clue "Nights before" is answered by EVES, a 4-letter entry. Used 119 times across 41 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 26 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EVES
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EVES answer page.
Used 119 times across 41 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 26 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EVES
Every other clue in this collection answered by EVES, most used first.
- Nights before holidays - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Days before holidays - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Holiday lead-ins - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- 12/24 and 12/31 - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Anticipatory times - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Holiday preceders - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Prior nights - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- December 24 and 31 - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Pre-holiday nights - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- "___ the night before Christmas ..." - TWAS, used 151 times
- Before long - SOON, used 120 times
- "___ the night before ..." - TWAS, used 100 times
- Book before Nehemiah - EZRA, used 69 times
- Before you know it - SOON, used 45 times
- Letter before Bravo - ALFA, used 42 times
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