Daylight saving __

The answer

TIME

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TIME

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

• Fourth dimension - used 37 times, most recently in 2019
• Clock reading - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Occasion - used 30 times, most recently in 2020
• "Pencils down!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a stopwatch - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Proctor's call - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Watch reading - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Marathoner's stat - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a stopwatch on - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Newsweek" rival - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
• Clock - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Game-stopping call - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• "Person of the Year" magazine - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Proctor's announcement - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Ref's call - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Cons do it - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Duration - used 8 times, most recently in 2001
• Life partner? - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Smartphone display - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "Stop the clock!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Ump's call - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Clock readout - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• It marches on - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• What prisoners do - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• What you may find on your hands - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• "Saving Private ___" - RYAN, used 23 times
• Space-saving abbr. - ETAL, used 18 times
• "Saving Private Ryan" event - DDAY, used 16 times
• "Saving Private Ryan" setting - DDAY, used 7 times

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