Answer: LENT
LENT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 207 times.
Referring Clues:
- Advanced
 - Fast time
 - Let use
 - Mardi Gras follower
 - Pre-Easter season
 - Time to give up
 - When Passiontide falls
 - Solemn time
 - Carnival follower
 - Spring time
 - Easter preparation
 - Fasting time
 - When Passion Sunday falls
 - Temporarily gone
 - Fast time?
 - Spring stretch
 - Loaned
 - Post-Mardi Gras period
 - It begins on Ash Wednesday
 - Pre-Easter period
 - Gave for a while
 - Spring period
 - Gave temporarily
 - Period of penitence
 - Solemn stretch
 - Time to give up?
 - Spring season
 - It starts on a Wednesday
 - Passiontide time
 - When Quadragesima occurs
 - "Ah, for the good old days," e.g.
 - It follows Mardi Gras
 - March fast?
 - Pancake Day is the day before this begins
 - Period of fasting
 - Penitential period
 - 40-day observance
 - Time for hot cross buns
 - Ash Wednesday starts it
 - Gave for awhile
 - Shrove Tuesday follower
 - Ash Wednesday to Easter
 - It starts on Ash Wednesday
 - Ash Wednesday’s season
 - Post-Mardi Gras observance
 - Gave on condition
 - Forty-day period
 - Afforded
 - Spring fast
 - Palm Sunday period
 - Fast season
 - 40-weekday observance
 - Ash Wednesday begins it
 - Gave temorarily
 - Lead-in to Easter
 - 40-day period of penitence
 - Spotted
 - Time for fasting
 - Shrovetide follower
 - The 40 weekdays leading up to Easter
 - It can start on leap day
 - Passion Sunday occurs during it
 - Fast period
 - Penitent period
 - Provided
 - Holy Week is a part of it
 - It follows Shrove Tuesday
 - Laetare Sunday occurs during it
 - Pre-Easter fasting period
 - Gave credit?
 - Gave for a bit
 - Furnished for a time
 - Allowed to use
 - 40-day period
 - Provided for a time
 - It ends with Easter
 - Pre-Easter time
 - Ash Wednesday follower
 - Period before Easter
 - Season of repentance
 - Easter ends it
 - Easter preceder
 - Provided, as credibility
 - Ignored Polonius' advice
 - Gave conditionally
 - Fat Tuesday follower
 - Spring observance
 - Advanced, in a way
 - Hot cross buns season
 - Allowed to use for a while
 - Ash Wednesday's season
 - Passion Sunday period
 - Period beginning on Ash Wednesday
 - Time of sacrifice
 - Advanced, as cash
 - It may begin in February
 - Fast forty?
 - Mardi Gras aftermath
 - Ash Wednesday kicks it off
 - Catholic observance
 - Contributed temporarily
 - Easter lead-in
 - Season of fasting
 - Fasting season
 - Time after Mardi Gras
 - Fronted, in a way
 - Period of abstinence
 - When Good Friday occurs
 - Holy Week's period
 - Period after Mardi Gras
 - Maundy Thursday period
 - Period of sacrifice
 - Period beginning Ash Wednesday
 - Ash Wednesdays season
 - Time to give something up
 - Catholic season of self denial
 - Pre-Easter observance
 - Time to give things up
 - Gave for a time
 - Fasting period
 - Mardi Gras follow-up
 - Time of abstinence
 - Provided temporarily
 - Time of forbearance
 - Time to abstain
 - Period after Shrove Tuesday
 - Quitting time?
 - Given for a time
 - Easter precursor
 - Traditional time for hot cross buns
 - Advanced, as money
 - Good Friday's time
 - Pre-Easter fast period
 - Imprest
 - Pre-Easter stretch
 - Post-Carnival period
 - Ash Wednesday-to-Easter observance
 - It starts with Ash Wednesday
 - Season of abstinence
 - Ash Wednesday-to-Easter time
 - Nearly six-week period
 - Season preceding Easter
 - Post-Carnival time
 - Did a baker's job
 - Giving-up time
 - Not given permanently
 - Passiontide is part of it
 - Provided for a while
 - Gave an advance to
 - Donated, temporarily
 - Atonement time
 - Penitential season
 - Forgoing time
 - Time for abstinence
 - Provided pro tem
 - Not given, say
 - Advanced, as funds
 - Gave credit to
 - Time of self-sacrifice
 - Religious period
 - 40-day observance, roughly
 - Period after Fat Tuesday
 - Gave to temporarily
 - Time of fasting
 - About six weeks on the liturgical calendar
 - Passion Sunday's period
 - Carnival's end
 - Extended credit to
 - Time to be abstinent
 - Holy Week season
 - Season of relgious sacrifice
 - Catholic season of sacrifice
 - Provided short-term
 - Pre-Easter fast
 - Religious season
 - Mardis Gras follower
 - Furnished
 - Season of atonement
 - Self-denial period
 - Penitent time
 - Let borrow
 - What Ash Wednesday begins
 - Advanced, financially
 - Observance that begins on Ash Wednesday
 - Giving up time
 - A spring season
 - Religious observance that's also a past-tense verb
 - Observance before Easter
 - Period of sacrifice prior to Easter
 - What Carnival precedes
 - Loaned out
 - Observance once known as Quadragesima (Latin for "fortieth")
 - Period following Mardi Gras
 - Temporarily provided
 - Forty-day religious period
 - You might give something up for this
 - Didn't give forever
 - Allowed to borrow
 - Allowed to be borrowed
 - Observance that might include Fish Fridays
 - Temporarily given
 - Observance that starts on Ash Wednesday
 - Time before Easter
 - When Holy Week falls
 - Church season that begins on Ash Wednesday
 - Christian period after Carnival
 - Observance that ends on Holy Thursday
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 31, 2025
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 - New York Times - March 24, 2025
 - USA Today - March 10, 2025
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 - LA Times - February 09, 2025
 - New York Times - January 21, 2025
 - LA Times - October 30, 2024
 - USA Today - July 22, 2024
 - USA Today - July 09, 2024
 
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