"Spring forward, fall back" letters

The answer

DST

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DST answer page.

Used 12 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DST

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

• Summer hrs. - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• "Spring ahead" hrs. - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• "Spring forward" letters - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• It ends in Nov. - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• "Spring ahead" letters - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• Summer time - used 18 times, most recently in 2006
• It ends in Oct. - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• August hrs. - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Aug. clock setting - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• "Spring ahead" abbr. - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• "Spring forward" hrs. - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Mar.-to-Nov. hrs. - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Mar.-to-Nov. setting - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Clock change inits. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Clock-setting abbr. - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Fall behind - LAG, used 312 times
• Genetic letters - RNA, used 265 times
• Debtor's letters - IOU, used 249 times
• Explosive letters - TNT, used 225 times
• Letters before an alias - AKA, used 194 times
• Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times

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