Answer: EVES
EVES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 233 times.
Referring Clues:
- 12/24 and 12/31
 - Preceding periods
 - Sunset followers
 - Nights before
 - Times to call, in classifieds
 - Days before big events
 - Party times
 - When to call, in some want ads
 - Just-prior periods
 - Preceding times
 - Preholiday nights
 - December 24 and 31
 - Twain's "___ Diary"
 - After-dark times, in classifieds
 - Day followers, in want ads
 - Lead-in periods
 - Preparatory times
 - Times to call, in ads
 - Temporal brinks
 - Times before
 - Expectant times
 - Times in classifieds
 - December 24 and 31, e.g.
 - Times of anticipation
 - Anticipatory times
 - Preceding nights
 - Times to party
 - Abbr. after some telephone numbers
 - Times to revel, maybe
 - "___ Bayou" (1997 Samuel L. Jackson film)
 - When to call, in some ads
 - Nights before holidays
 - Lead-ins to holidays
 - Real estate ad abbr.
 - Times to revel
 - Times to call, in some want ads
 - Times in want ads
 - Holiday nights
 - Nights, in classifieds
 - Holiday preceders
 - Holiday lead-ins
 - Big party nights
 - Celebration times
 - Pre-holiday nights
 - Actor Arden and woman in a garden
 - "___ Bayou" (1997 film)
 - Plumb and Arden
 - Holiday periods
 - Anticipatory nights
 - Holiday kickoffs
 - Pre-holiday periods
 - Final dates for holiday planning
 - Festive antecedents
 - Nights of anticipation
 - Pre-holiday times
 - "___ Bayou" (1997 movie)
 - "___ Diary" (Mark Twain short story)
 - Holiday party times
 - Holiday precursors
 - Times to celebrate
 - Times to get ready
 - Days before
 - Preceders of special days
 - Leading periods
 - December 24th and 31st, e.g.
 - Festive nights
 - Party nights
 - Days before holidays
 - 12/24 and 31
 - Cusps
 - ''__ Diary'' (Twain book)
 - Impending times
 - Two days in December
 - ''__ Diary'' (Twain short story)
 - Nights prior
 - ''___ Bayou'' (Samuel L. Jackson film)
 - Some party nights
 - Twilight times
 - Nights spent in anticipation
 - Dec. 24 and 31
 - December 31 et al.
 - Chronological brinks
 - You can't have big days without them
 - ''___ Bayou'' (1997)
 - Some times to revel
 - Two December days
 - Nights before?
 - Nights before big days
 - Certain celebration times
 - Holiday forerunners
 - Some times for celebrating
 - Festive times
 - December 24 and 31, notably
 - Holiday predecessors
 - Nights before events
 - Busy travel days
 - Nighttimes, in want ads
 - Periods preceding big events
 - Brinks
 - *Times to call, in ads
 - Festive nights, often
 - Halloween et al.
 - Nite times
 - Nights, in ads
 - They come before big days
 - Times of expectancy
 - New Years' highlights
 - Prime time times
 - "___ Bayou" (Samuel L. Jackson film)
 - Just-prior times
 - "___ Diary" (Twain book)
 - "___ Diary" (Twain short story)
 - Festive harbingers
 - After 6 p.m., in ads
 - Some dates in the liturgical year
 - Arden and others
 - Evenings, to Emerson
 - Evenings, poetically
 - Ontario's Premier Ernie
 - Memorable nights
 - After-work times, in classifieds
 - Preholiday periods
 - Party times, sometimes
 - Sleepless nights, at times
 - Prior nights
 - Times for preparation
 - Preparation times
 - Previous nights
 - Decem-ber 24 and 31
 - Periods right before
 - 12/24 and 12/31, e.g.
 - Dec. 24 and others
 - Poet's twilights
 - Poet's twilights
 - Ontario's 23rd Premier
 - December 24 and December 31, notably
 - Presaging times
 - Holiday antecedents
 - Times for final holiday preparations
 - Times for celebrating
 - Arden and Plumb
 - A couple of December days
 - Nights before big things
 - Auspicious nights
 - Anxious times for some
 - Days called nights
 - After-dark times, in ads
 - Thresholds
 - Holiday thresholds
 - Times of promise
 - Lead-ins to big days
 - Holidays, almost
 - Some party dates
 - Dec. 24 and 31, e.g.
 - Night times, in classifieds
 - Arden et al.
 - Gloamings
 - Nights of anticipatory revelry
 - Nervous nights, maybe
 - Holiday percursors
 - Preparatory periods
 - Holiday preludes
 - Big nights
 - Celebratory nights
 - Typical after-work times, for short
 - Brent and Arden
 - Some party times
 - Party days
 - Times for vespers
 - Big-event thresholds
 - Anticipatory days
 - Times in Craigslist ads
 - Kickoffs to holidays
 - Festive December twosome
 - Two big nights in December
 - Days before big days
 - Dec. 24 and 31, famously
 - December has two big ones
 - Twilight times, briefly
 - Anticipatory periods
 - Times of fitful sleep, maybe
 - Times when you might have trouble sleeping
 - Eventides
 - 12/31 et al.
 - Lead-in days
 - Pre-event periods
 - Arden and Queler
 - Frequent party days
 - Preholiday times
 - Party times for many
 - December 24th and 31st
 - "___ Diary" (Twain Biblical tale)
 - Pre-revelry nights
 - Special nights
 - Party times, often
 - Times before observances
 - Times to prepare
 - Special holiday periods
 - Nights when kids have a hard time falling asleep
 - Deadline precursors
 - Workday followers, in ads
 - Days prior
 - Times before the present?
 - Gift-wrapping occasions
 - Gift-wrapping times, perhaps
 - Classified times
 - "... seven Christmas ___ ago": Dickens
 - Tense times, maybe
 - Days of anticipation
 - Big day preceders
 - Pre-holiday observances
 - Dark times, informally
 - Times for some vigils
 - "___ Diary" (Twain book with an apple on the cover)
 - They're ahead of their time
 - Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, e.g.
 - Notable nights
 - Big nights before big days
 - The before-times?
 - Times outside office hours, in personals
 - Nights before special days
 - Some sleepless nights
 - Dec. 24 and Dec. 31
 - Present-wrapping nights, for procrastinators
 - The before times?
 - Crepuscular times
 - Some nights of celebration
 - Australian pop singer Karydas
 - Times for holiday parties
 - Holidays that aren't typically federal holidays
 - Beforetimes?
 - Times to look forward
 - What are ahead of their times?
 
Last Seen In:
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 - USA Today - November 11, 2024
 - LA Times - August 21, 2024
 - USA Today - July 24, 2024
 - USA Today - June 27, 2024
 - USA Today - March 20, 2024
 - LA Times - February 28, 2024
 
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