Clues for the word "NIGHT"
We've had 202 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 363 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 28, 2026.
Definition of night
- n. - That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
- n. - Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
- n. - Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
- n. - A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
- n. - The period after the close of life; death.
- n. - A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
Referring Clues
- Dusk to dawn
- Time for some shifts
- When most people retire
- Fly-by-___ (unscrupulous)
- Bedtime call, informally
- Darkness
- "'Twas the ___ before Christmas..."
- Dark time
- "Saturday ___ Fever"
- Elie Wiesel work
- Day's opposite
- When most dreams occur
- Period of darkness
- Time to retire
- Dark period
- Part of "SNL"
- When bats fly
- Wiesel work
- When to see stars
- "What hath ___ to do with sleep?": Milton
- Dusk-to-dawn period
- Usual bedtime
- Dracula's uptime
- Thing broken in time of darkness?
- Kind of court or school
- Star's time to shine?
- Sack time
- Word with club or stick
- When many people retire
- Dracula's time
- Wiesel memoir
- Time to sleep
- "'Twas the ___ before Christmas ..."
- Dracula's favorite time
- Period of ignorance
- It falls but never breaks
- Time for fireworks
- Astronomer's prime time
- "What hath ___ to do with sleep?": Milton
- Cap or gown lead-in
- Time for a tuck
- Date time, often
- Fright ______, 1985 Hallowe'en knee knocker
- "... and the darkness he called ___" (Gen 1:5)
- Day break?
- Sleep time
- Dracula's shift
- Dark hours
- Dracula's waking hours
- Day follower
- Period after sunset
- Comment to one who's retiring, informally
- It falls quite predictably
- Nyx's realm
- From dusk 'til dawn
- Busy time for fireflies
- See 26-Across
- "Mr. Saturday ___" (Billy Crystal film)
- Brief remark upon retiring
- When horror movie scenes are generally set
- Vampire's shift
- Time for vampires
- Graveyard-shift time
- Day follower
- After sundown
- Popular Christmas carol
- Word 2 of a Christmasclassic
- Word 4 of a Christmas classic
- Like all World Series games, now
- Time for Dracula
- "the edge of ___"
- Word that can precede either part of 17-, 25-, 38-, 54- and 63-Across
- Busy time for bats
- Time to see stars
- Kind of cap and gown
- When one sees stars
- Brief remark upon heading to bed
- It falls daily but never breaks
- With 9-Down, hit sitcom of the 1980s-'90s
- "Sweet dreams"
- Daily darkness
- When to go to bed
- Opposite of day
- Almost time - time for bed?
- Darkness is an odd thing
- Hours of darkness
- One of seven in a week
- Time when asleep
- Prime-time time
- AC/DC "___ Prowler"
- At hand puppet's last occasion to perform
- Thing (anag)
- Man said brief word of farewell at end of day
- The dark time
- Day's partner
- It's bound to fall when a thing gets broken
- Dream time approaching, close to sunset
- Almost finishing breakfast in the dark!
- Strange thing, but it's time for bed
- At the end of the day, close on time
- Thing going wrong in the dark
- It falls, breaking a thing
- "The Dark Cavalier" hides his head
- Close on temperature for a usually colder period
- See 6
- See 1 across
- It's dark, almost, at the end of August
- At last, was it almost Tuesday?
- An awful thing, the moment when stars appear
- A certain time, nearly at the end of August
- Sir Kay spent hours in darkness
- Time the thing wrong
- Nearly half of it may be black
- A black time for the champion, we hear
- It's a different thing when it falls
- Near the onset of the dark
- It's black, almost like that historic model Ford
- It's near the time when one should be abed
- Close time?
- Tennyson's "black bat"
- From dusk until dawn
- "The 2 8 of the dog in the ___"
- Near to the start of darkness
- When to see the moon near the end of August
- Dark Tower's beginning - hard drink knocked back
- See 9
- Time without 10
- It's nearly time for bed
- Approaching the time which is said to fall
- See 1
- For most, the time for sleep
- What proverbially follows day
- Brief last greeting sounds noble
- See 10
- Day nothing changed?
- See 22
- Not quite time in the foregoing for a 10 (26)'s subject
- Nearly time to see the moon?
- Nearly time - for bed?
- It's dark almost on time
- The time when Lancelot, say, lost his head
- Fall behind it at the end of day
- End of day
- Evening
- See 13 across
- Battle force turns to north when it's dark
- Time thing working
- Cavalier decapitated in the dark
- Dark, misshapen thing
- It's dark near the junction
- Sir's heading off for the evening
- Dark period for famous nurse missing in gale
- It's dark almost before the end of August
- Nearly left behind in the dark
- Darkness of the spirit reflected, lacking energy
- Near end of flight in the dark
- Man on board heard in the dark
- Watchman! What of the black bat?
- See 21
- ... over this darned thing!
- Slight inversion round fang tip preferred by Dracula
- A black time is a terrible thing
- Almost a perfect ending in the dark
- Time for a jar with a bird
- Almost time - for bedtime?
- A late faller
- Near time, or time, to go to bed
- Almost time - for bedtime
- It gets dark
- Nocturnal hours
- Dark sort of thing!
- In the dark, it's a smashing thing!
- Dark
- Time for a jar with a bird?
- Time of darkness
- Almost finishing breakfast at supper time
- Time when dark
- From dusk to dawn
- Almost perfect ending to a black time
- Dracula's prime time
- "See ya in the morning"
- Bats' prime time
- Thing that breaks when it falls?
- Nazi purge at the end of June, 1934
- When burglars did the wrong thing
- Is a dark one a bad thing?
- Time for a fireworks show
- It never occurs above the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice
- When to stargaze
- Period from dusk to dawn
- When repeated, call to someone going to bed
- Lighting up time!
- At last, was it almost Tuesday?
- Raat ki rani, aka ___-blooming jasmine
- Stargazing time
- A dark time for the champion, we hear
- "___ and Day"
- One of eight for Hanukkah
- Ill-advised time for an ocean swim
- After dark
- ___-light
- When doubled, "Sleep well"
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 28, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 27, 2025
- New York Times - July 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 25, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 15, 2025
- LA Times - June 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 17, 2025
- LA Times - March 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 05, 2025
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