The Clue
Darkening (8 letter answer)
The Answer
TWILIGHT
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Notes
The answer TWILIGHT is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
TWILIGHT as a noun:
1. (twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle) = the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
2. the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
3. a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
TWILIGHT as an adjective:
1. (dusky, twilight, twilit) = lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"