Literary contraction
The crossword clue "Literary contraction" is answered by EEN, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EEN
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EEN answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 5 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.
Other clues for EEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by EEN, most used first.
- Poetic contraction - used 97 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetic dusk - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Velvet finish? - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic time - used 68 times, most recently in 2022
- Still, in verse - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Bard's nightfall - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Dusk, to Donne - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetic time of day - used 38 times, most recently in 2022
- Suffix for "velvet" - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic word - used 32 times, most recently in 1998
- Hallow ending - used 31 times, most recently in 2016
- Poetic nightfall - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Suffix with velvet - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Poet's contraction - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Poet's dusk - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Night of poetry - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
- Poetic twilight - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Yet, poetically - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Dark time for poets - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Ending for velvet - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
- Poetic adverb - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Poetic night - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Morn's opposite - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Nighttime, poetically - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Dusk, poetically - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- When dark comes o'er the land - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
- After dark, poetically - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Bard's twilight - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Tennyson's twilight - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
- Velvet ending - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
- Bard's contraction - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
- Dusk, in verse - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Poet's nightfall - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Poetic nighttime - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Twilight, to Tennyson - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
- Ending for Hallow - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Nightfall, poetically - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic period - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Twilight time, to Tennyson - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Velvet add-on - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- After dusk, poetically - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Bard's bedtime? - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Bard's dusk - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Even: Poet. - used 7 times, most recently in 1962
- Nighttime, in poetry - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Poet's word - used 7 times, most recently in 1978
- Still, in poetry - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Tennyson's dusk - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Bard's early night - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Day's end, poetically - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Hallow conclusion? - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Late-October suffix - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Suffix for "Hallow" - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Yet, to Yeats - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Literary collection - ANA, used 205 times
- Anthem contraction - OER, used 156 times
- Poetic contraction - OER, used 143 times
- Poetic contraction - TIS, used 122 times
- Poetic contraction - EER, used 113 times
- Literary monogram - TSE, used 93 times
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