The night before
The crossword clue "The night before" is answered by EVE, a 3-letter entry. Used 42 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1936. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EVE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EVE answer page.
Used 42 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1936. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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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
- Genesis name - used 70 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
- Leading lady? - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Christmas ___ - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- First mate? - used 46 times, most recently in 2021
- She raised Cain - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Cain raiser - used 37 times, most recently in 2023
- 12/24 or 12/31 - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Genesis woman - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Adam's madam - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- "All About ___" - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
- Brink - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Actress Arden - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Time of anticipation - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Anticipatory time - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Garden party? - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
- "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" rapper - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Planning time - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic time. - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Eden evictee - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Holiday time - used 26 times, most recently in 2003
- Abel's mother - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Preceding night - used 24 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.
- In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
- In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
- Before - ERE, used 733 times
- Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
- "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
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