Lunch hour

The answer

NOON

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOON answer page.

Used 54 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ONE (3 uses in xd)
• MEALTIME (1 uses in xd)
• MIDDAY (1 uses in xd)
• NOONTIME (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NOON

Every other clue in this collection answered by NOON, most used first.

• Midday - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
• High time? - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Time of day. - used 42 times, most recently in 2000
• Lunchtime - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Day divider - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• When shadows are shortest - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
• Palindromic time - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Twelve - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Lunch time - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• When both hands are up - used 25 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Long lunch? - HERO, used 57 times
• Prime-time hour - NINE, used 56 times
• Man of the hour - HERO, used 51 times
• Breakfast, lunch, or dinner - MEAL, used 42 times
• Lunch or dinner - MEAL, used 42 times
• Canonical hour - SEXT, used 26 times

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