Answer: PHASE
PHASE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 110 times.
Referring Clues:
- Stage
 - Temporary attitude
 - New moon, e.g.
 - Terrible twos, for one
 - New moon, for one
 - New moon or full moon, e.g.
 - New moon is one
 - Period
 - Part of a lunar cycle
 - Part of growing up
 - Moon stage
 - Full moon, e.g.
 - Developmental stage
 - Terrible twos, e.g.
 - Step in a process
 - Moon position
 - ___ in (introduce gradually)
 - The "terrible twos," e.g.
 - Lunar stage
 - Part of a moon cycle
 - "The terrible twos," for one
 - Transitional time
 - Chapter
 - Cycle part
 - Thing to go through
 - Stage of development
 - Commercial development segment
 - *Part of a developmental sequence
 - Facet
 - Thumbsucking, e.g.
 - Development stage
 - Terrible twos, notably
 - Stage of a process
 - Growth period
 - Full or first quarter, e.g.
 - Eliminate gradually (with ''out'')
 - Thumbsucking, to an optimist
 - Aspect
 - Project segment
 - Child's bad behavior, the parent hopes
 - Crescent moon, for instance
 - Full moon or first quarter
 - Eliminate gradually (with "out")
 - Temporary state
 - Terrible twos, one hopes
 - Temporary teenage period
 - Developmental period
 - "Terrible Twos," for one
 - Astronomical appearance
 - Developmental step
 - Lunar aspect
 - Moon posistion
 - Full moon, for one
 - Aspect of development
 - ___ out (discontinue)
 - The terrible twos, e.g.
 - View of the moon
 - Something to grow out of
 - Moon aspect
 - Introduce gradually, with "in"
 - Temporary pattern of behavior
 - Thumb-sucking, e.g.
 - Midlife crisis, e.g.
 - Part of a process
 - With 35 Across, second part of a plan
 - Anagram for "shape"
 - Half-moon, e.g.
 - Part of a cycle
 - Crescent moon, for one
 - Step
 - Crescent or new moon
 - Stage one may have to go through
 - Step of a project
 - Short-lived stage
 - Temporary stage
 - Cycle
 - Transitional period
 - Stage of a plan
 - Full moon or crescent
 - Full moon or new moon
 - Lunar view
 - New or full moon, e.g.
 - Transition period
 - New moon or full moon
 - New moon, for example
 - Temporary condition
 - Step in development
 - Temporary status
 - Growing thing
 - Waxing crescent, e.g., for the moon
 - Clinical trial stage
 - Waxing crescent, e.g.
 - Adolescence, e.g.
 - Stage in a lunar cycle
 - Abandon gradually, with "out"
 - Part of the plan
 - What a rebellious teenager may be going through
 - Stage of a 33-Down
 - Step for clinical trials
 - Gradually eliminate, with "out"
 - Lunar cycle part
 - Waxing crescent, for example
 - "It's not a ___, Mom!"
 - Waxing or waning gibbous
 - Adolescence, for one
 - Luteal or follicular
 - Lunar cycle component
 - Moon unit
 - This, too, shall pass
 - Segment
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - August 12, 2025
 - New York Times - June 30, 2025
 - LA Times - May 11, 2025
 - New York Times - May 09, 2025
 - USA Today - February 19, 2025
 - USA Today - December 31, 2024
 - LA Times - November 29, 2024
 - LA Times - October 05, 2024
 - LA Times - October 04, 2024
 - USA Today - September 25, 2024
 - LA Times - September 18, 2024
 - LA Times - June 16, 2024
 - LA Times - March 01, 2024
 - New York Times - January 17, 2024
 - USA Today - September 11, 2023
 - New York Times - August 12, 2023
 - USA Today - August 01, 2023
 - LA Times - June 27, 2023
 - USA Today - June 12, 2023
 - New York Times - May 06, 2023
 
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