"... and ___ to rise ..."

The answer

EARLY

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EARLY answer page.

Used 7 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EARLY

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

• Ahead of time - used 50 times, most recently in 2025
• Ahead of schedule - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Before the deadline - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Primitive - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Too soon - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Premature - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Before the due date - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Betimes - used 16 times, most recently in 1997
• In advance - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Before dawn - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• More than punctual - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
• Jumping the gun - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Before the bell - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• In the wee hours - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• With time to spare - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• At the crack of dawn - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• ___ bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2008

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.

• Up and about - ASTIR, used 274 times
• On the up and up - LEGIT, used 124 times
• Out-and-out - UTTER, used 117 times
• "Pomp and Circumstance" composer - ELGAR, used 99 times
• Flora and fauna - BIOTA, used 81 times
• Oohed and __ - AAHED, used 77 times

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