Approach midnight
The crossword clue "Approach midnight" is answered by LATEN, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. 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
LATEN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LATEN answer page.
Used 17 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LATEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by LATEN, most used first.
- Grow dark - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Grow toward evening - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Make tardy - used 8 times, most recently in 2001
- Approach evening - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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