Answer: EARLY
EARLY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 113 times.
Referring Clues:
- Baseball's Wynn
 - Before the due date
 - Premature
 - Primitive
 - Before curfew
 - Like an eager guest, maybe
 - Jumping the gun
 - Old
 - At dawn
 - Like the bird that catches the worm
 - Before the bell
 - Like some retirements
 - Five in the morning, say
 - Ahead of schedule
 - "__ Sunday Morning" (Edward Hopper painting)
 - Too soon
 - Like Cro-Magnon man, to us
 - With time to spare
 - Like some risers
 - At the crack of dawn
 - See 51-Across
 - "__ to bed ..." (start of a verse often credited to Benjamin Franklin)
 - Like 5:00 or 6:00 a.m., say
 - Before sunrise
 - ___ bird special
 - Before the crack of dawn
 - Prehistoric
 - Before the scheduled time
 - In advance
 - Like the proverbial worm catcher
 - Too quickly
 - Likely to wait, probably
 - Bird type
 - Before sunup
 - Ahead of one's time
 - Before it's needed
 - Ahead of time
 - "... and ___ to rise ..."
 - At cock's crow
 - More than punctual
 - Kind of riser
 - Like an eager date, say
 - Like the bird with the worm
 - Loser to Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley
 - Like an eager guest
 - Toward the beginning
 - Way before the bell
 - When an eager date arrives
 - Predawn
 - Before expected
 - Before the hour
 - Before the deadline
 - Before dawn, say
 - At first light
 - More than prompt
 - With 1-Down, good thing to have for a tornado
 - Before dawn
 - Not just prompt
 - Way before deadline
 - At sunup
 - In the wee hours
 - "... and ___ to rise..."
 - "... and ___ to rise"
 - What the fashionably late never are
 - Not merely prompt
 - Bright and ___
 - Civil War general Jubal
 - Late's opposite
 - Avoiding the rush, say
 - Wee, as hours
 - Not to term
 - In good time
 - Before it gets crowded
 - Helped by the jet stream, as a flight
 - Beforehand
 - Before the crowd
 - Of a long-ago era
 - Way back
 - ___ warning
 - Unexpected, in a way
 - "___ edition"
 - ___ bird
 - Like birds with worms, so it's said
 - Before the rest of the crowd arrives
 - Like the worm-catching bird
 - Ancient
 - Like the worm-catcher, in a saying
 - Pre-punctual?
 - At the crack of dawn, say
 - Far back in time
 - U-turn from late
 - Jubal ___ of the C.S.A.
 - Prior to opening
 - At dawn, e.g.
 - Bedtimes
 - Better than punctual
 - How surprise party guests should arrive
 - Civil war general, loser at Waynesboro
 - Pre-50-Across
 - ___ decision (admissions policy)
 - Well in advance
 - Like the bird that gets the worm
 - Ahead of the due date
 - Like an eager "bird"
 - Before the due date, say
 - ___ voting
 - Word with bird or retirement
 - Like the bird who gets the worm, in a saying
 - Before the doors open
 - In the wee hours of the morning
 - Word before "retirement" or "riser"
 - Like an eager party guest, perhaps
 - At dawn, say
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 28, 2025
 - New York Times - September 16, 2025
 - LA Times - September 12, 2025
 - LA Times - September 11, 2025
 - USA Today - August 06, 2025
 - LA Times - March 21, 2025
 - USA Today - December 05, 2024
 - USA Today - November 26, 2024
 - LA Times - September 15, 2024
 - LA Times - May 07, 2024
 - USA Today - November 14, 2023
 - New York Times - August 06, 2023
 - USA Today - July 04, 2023
 - New York Times - June 25, 2022
 - USA Today - May 11, 2022
 - New York Times - October 04, 2021
 - USA Today - September 22, 2021
 - LA Times - May 20, 2021
 - Universal - November 26, 2020
 - Netword - November 18, 2020
 
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