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
• Dusks
• Plumb et al.
• Special nights
• Plumb and Brenner
• December 24th and 31st
• Nights before the big day
• Days before the big day
• Two important ones are a week apart in December
• Holiday heralds
• Days of anticipation
• Christmas and New Year's lead-ins
• Times for some holiday parties
• Festive occasions
• Night times, in ads
• “___ Diary” (Mark Twain story)
• First lady's kind of pudding
• Nightfalls
• The women in the vestry
• Times when you might have trouble sleeping
• Nights before Christmas and New Year's Day
• Eventides
• Festive nights, perhaps
• 12/31 et al.
• Lead-in days
• Pre-event periods
• Anticipatory occasions
• Frequent party days
• Preholiday times
• Times in classified ads
• Party times for many
• Nights
• "___ Diary" (Twain Biblical tale)
• Pre-revelry nights
• Nights prior to holidays
• December 31 and others
• 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
• Plumb and Ensler
• Days prior
• Times before the present?
• Gift-wrapping occasions
• October 31 and December 31, notably
• Classified times
• Nights before big nights
• "... seven Christmas ___ ago": Dickens
• "___ Bayou" (directorial debut for Kasi Lemmons)
• Tense times, maybe
• Big day preceders
• Pre-holiday observances
• Dark times, informally
• Certain days are for women
• Days before big holidays
• Times for some vigils
• "___ Diary" (Twain book with an apple on the cover)
• They're ahead of their time
• Nights before the big days
• Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, e.g.
• Dec. 25 and 31
• Party times before big events
• Notable nights
• Some big nights
• Big nights before big days
• The before-times?
• Nights before special days
• Some sleepless nights
• Brenner et al.
• Dec. 24 and Dec. 31
• Nights full of anticipation
• Present-wrapping nights, for procrastinators
• Women who anticipate?
• Holidays' heralds
• Some nights of celebration
• Australian pop singer Karydas
• Times for holiday parties
• Holidays that aren't typically federal holidays