Premature
The crossword clue "Premature" is answered by EARLY, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EARLY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EARLY answer page.
Used 18 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 11 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.
- UNTIMELY (2 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- "... and ___ to rise ..." - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- 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
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