Great time

The answer

BALL

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

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 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.

• BLAST (50 uses in xd)
• ERA (20 uses in xd)
• GAS (10 uses in xd)
• EON (5 uses in xd)
• EPOCH (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BALL

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

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• Fancy dance - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Event for Cinderella - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cinderella" event - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Ump's call - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Event attended by Cinderella - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Society event - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Tennis racket's target - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Cotillion - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Good time - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Umpire's call - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• A Great Lake - ERIE, used 316 times
• A single time - ONCE, used 296 times
• "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Tennis great Arthur - ASHE, used 225 times

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