Day crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Day” are DATE, FALL or DAWN, with 4 letters. Below are 21 answers from 3 to 9 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

EVE 3 letters · noun

the day before “he always arrives on the eve of her departure”

DATE 4 letters · noun

the specified day of the month “what is the date today?”

ROUND 5 letters · noun

the usual activities in your day “the doctor made his rounds”

PICNIC 6 letters · noun

a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

MORNING 7 letters · noun

the first light of day “they talked until morning”

TOMORROW 8 letters · noun

the day after today “what are our tasks for tomorrow?”

NIGHTFALL 9 letters · noun

the time of day immediately following sunset

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, DATE, FALL, DAWN, NOON and DUSK all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: T → DATE · L → FALL · W → DAWN · O → NOON · S → DUSK. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, ROUND, DAILY and CLOCK all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: R → ROUND · D → DAILY · C → CLOCK. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, PICNIC, AURORA, OUTING and MORROW all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → PICNIC · A → AURORA · O → OUTING · M → MORROW. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “days” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “day” means

• noun: time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis (“two days later they left”)
• noun: a point or period in time (“it should arrive any day now”)
• noun: a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance (“Mother's Day”)
• noun: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside (“the dawn turned night into day”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as DAY, and words whose definition is DAY. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.