"It's now or never" time

The answer

DDAY

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

Used 12 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DDAY

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

• June 6, 1944 - used 196 times, most recently in 2026
• WWII turning point - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• 6/6/44 - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Crucial time - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Make-or-break time - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• 1944 turning point - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• 1944 Normandy event - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Decisive time - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• "Saving Private Ryan" event - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Time of reckoning - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Time to attack - used 12 times, most recently in 2009
• Time to act - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• WWII event - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• 1944 event - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• Critical time - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Time for action - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• June 1944 event - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• WWII milestone - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• 6/6/1944 - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• June 6 - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• "Saving Private Ryan" setting - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Do-or-die time - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Invasion date - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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 single time - ONCE, used 296 times
• "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
• It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
• A long time - AGES, used 156 times
• High time? - NOON, used 151 times

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