The Clue
Poetic time (3 letter answer)
The Answer
EVE
Tags
Notes
The answer EVE is very common and appears about once every 34 puzzles.
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Actress Arden
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Antecedent period
Conductor Queler
Early seducee
Eden woman
First lady
First mate
First mate?
First palindrome
Genesis name
Genesis woman
Holiday preceder
Holiday prelude
Miss Arden
New Year's ___
Night before
Notable night
Palindromic lady
Poet Merriam
Preceding day
Preceding night
Second name
Second person
Seth's mother
"The ___ of St. Agnes"
Time of day
Time to revel
December 24, e.g.
December 31, e.g.
First fruit picker
First transplant recipient
Party time, maybe
Sewer of fig leaves
Spare rib, once
"Who's That Girl?" rapper
Woodward role in 1957
"___ f Destruction" (1965 hit)
Gift-wrapping time, for some
Notable mother of estranged brothers
Joanne Woodward Oscar-winning role
Title role for Anne Baxter, 1950
Wall-E's love in "Wall-E"
Definition
EVE as a noun:
1. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
2. the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure"
3. the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution"
4. (evening, eve, even, eventide) = the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"