After curfew

The answer

LATE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LATE answer page.

Used 30 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LATE

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

• Tardy - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
• Overdue - used 147 times, most recently in 2026
• Behind schedule - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• Not on time - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Past due - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Recent - used 63 times, most recently in 2014
• Running behind - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Past the deadline - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• After the buzzer - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• After the bell - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Better ___ than never" - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• After the deadline - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Like the White Rabbit - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Not punctual - used 33 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.

• Happily ___ after - EVER, used 153 times
• Book after Joel - AMOS, used 100 times
• Score after deuce - ADIN, used 73 times
• After-bath powder - TALC, used 72 times
• After that - THEN, used 56 times
• Letter after epsilon - ZETA, used 52 times

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