12/24 or 12/31

The answer

EVE

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

Used 36 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EVE

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

• Night before - used 235 times, most recently in 2026
• First lady - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
• Second person - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Night before a holiday - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• New Year's ___ - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Holiday lead-in - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Adam's mate - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Prior night - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Cain's mother - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Day before a holiday - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• She raised Cain - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Cain raiser - used 37 times, most recently in 2023
• Genesis woman - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Adam's madam - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Actress Arden - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Anticipatory time - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" rapper - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Planning time - used 28 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Before - ERE, used 733 times
• Greek vowel - ETA, used 549 times
• Superlative suffix - EST, used 521 times
• Mess up - ERR, used 508 times
• Work unit - ERG, used 488 times
• Dawn goddess - EOS, used 446 times

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