Answer: NOON
NOON is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 240 times.
Referring Clues:
- Deadline for Sheriff Kane
 - Zero hour for Will Kane, in a film
 - When a factory whistle blows
 - Deadline, sometimes
 - Twelve, half of the time
 - "High" time
 - Twelve ___
 - Tiffin time
 - Day divider
 - Palindromic time
 - Time for a bite
 - Shootout time
 - Twelve
 - Eight bells, at sea
 - High time?
 - Hands-together time
 - Zenith, metaphorically
 - Shootout time, maybe
 - When all hands meet
 - Twelve, maybe
 - Whistle time
 - Chime time
 - It follows 11
 - It precedes one
 - When shadows are short
 - Marshal Kane's time
 - Time for a Wild West shootout
 - Bright time
 - Eight bells
 - 12 chimes
 - Nautical day's beginning
 - See 37-Across
 - Midday
 - Time to draw?
 - Factory whistle time
 - Gunfight time, maybe
 - Duel time, maybe
 - Shootout time, perhaps
 - When shadows are shortest
 - Good time for suntanning
 - When morning ends
 - H-hour in a Gary Cooper film
 - Common lunch time
 - When both hands are up?
 - 1200 hours
 - Lunchtime, for many
 - Time when both hands are up
 - "High" time at MGM
 - When both hands are up
 - Time, going forward or backward
 - Beginning of lunchtime, for most
 - Break time
 - When both hands come together
 - Arrival time of Frank Miller's train, in a 1952 film
 - High time
 - Morning ender
 - Day's halfway point
 - Wild West shootout time
 - Morning ending
 - Lunch time
 - "High" time?
 - When many lunch whistles blow
 - Start of a nautical day
 - Lunch time, often
 - Time when a U.S. president's term expires
 - 1200
 - 12
 - Twelve o'clock in the daytime
 - "High ___" (1952 Gary Cooper film)
 - Hands-up time?
 - 11 follower
 - Showdown time, in a 1952 film
 - It can follow eleven
 - Time for lunch
 - Lunchtime, often
 - ''High'' time
 - Day's halfway mark
 - Middle of the day
 - Lunch hour for some
 - Popular lunch hour
 - Time for lunch, perhaps
 - One preceder
 - Whistle hour
 - Twelve __
 - When morning is over
 - Lunch time, for many
 - Eleven plus one
 - When shadows shorten
 - When two hands meet?
 - Twelve o'clock, half the time
 - Time many chose to draw?
 - Busy restaurant time
 - Time for a break, often
 - Deadline for Marshal Kane
 - Showdown time, in oaters
 - When two hands meet
 - When hands are at their highest point
 - Time for lunch, for many
 - Whistle time, often
 - It might be high
 - Tiffin time, perhaps
 - Halfway through the day
 - When you may hear a whistle blow
 - It's high time
 - Day's crest
 - Break of day?
 - It's high once a day
 - Factory whistle time, perhaps
 - Showdown time for Marshal Will Kane
 - "Dark, amid the blaze of ___": Milton
 - Factory whistle time, often
 - Gunfight time, in several films
 - Certain halfway point
 - Twelve sharp
 - High time for Gary Cooper
 - Day demarcation
 - Cinematic showdown hour
 - It comes before one
 - XII, maybe
 - Hand-passing time
 - Traditional gunfight time
 - It precedes 1
 - Showdown time
 - It's after 11
 - Bright time, often
 - The end of the morning
 - High time of day
 - Meridian hour
 - 12 p.m.
 - A hot time?
 - Midnight's opposite
 - Straight-up hour
 - Lunchtime, maybe
 - Lunch hour
 - Lunch hour for many
 - Lunch hour, often
 - 12:00 in the daytime
 - When p.m. begins
 - When p.m. starts
 - Midday hour
 - Twelve P.M.
 - 12:00 p.m.
 - Twelve o'clock
 - When a clock's hands meet
 - 12 ___
 - 12 o'clock high
 - Halfway to tomorrow
 - It's between eleven and one
 - It arrives once a day
 - Time for both hands to be up
 - "High" time for Hadleyville's marshal Kane
 - When a factory whistle may blow
 - Busy time for a cuckoo clock
 - It's between 11 and 1
 - Whistle-blowing time
 - Lunchtime for many
 - See 67-Across
 - What may precede one
 - Whistle time?
 - XII, perhaps
 - Cinematic showdown time
 - Palindromic time of day
 - It may follow eleven
 - Midday time
 - It may come before one
 - Lunch time, maybe
 - Eight bells, maybe
 - High-handed point
 - "High ___"
 - Morning's end
 - Hands-up time
 - Rush hour at downtown restaurants
 - Local news time, often
 - Shootout time, in Westerns
 - Lunchtime for some
 - Climactic time in Westerns
 - Both-hands-up time
 - Hour after 11
 - High ___
 - Cinematic shootout time
 - Lunch time for many
 - Shortest-shadows time
 - Lunchtime palindrome?
 - Lunchtime
 - Classic showdown time
 - Time for lunch, often
 - Common lunchtime
 - "Darkness at ___": Arthur Koestler novel
 - The other side of midnight?
 - Cliché drawing time
 - Western showdown time
 - Time for short shadows
 - Busy time at the drive-thru
 - Divider of the day
 - When many head to lunch
 - Presidential oath of office time
 - Busy time at fast-food restaurants
 - When many have lunch
 - Eight bells at sea, perhaps
 - Common lunch hour
 - Day's midpoint
 - "High ___" (Western)
 - Busy time at urban food trucks
 - Whistled hour
 - "High" time of day
 - High point
 - Typical lunch time
 - Lunch hour, maybe
 - Separator of a.m. and p.m.
 - Mealtime for many
 - 11 and 60 minutes?
 - U-turn from midnight
 - Time for a work break, perhaps
 - Palindromic hour
 - 11 hours after 43 Across
 - 12, at times
 - Two-hands-up time
 - Time when the sun is highest
 - Time around nomination?
 - 12 hours before midnight
 - Halfway through a day
 - Time for a lunch break
 - Time for a lunch break, often
 - XII, during the day
 - When AM meets PM
 - High times
 - Twelve, half the time
 - Common time for lunch
 - When hands come together?
 - Time that's a palindrome
 - Day break?
 - Halfway to midnight
 - Halfway between midnights
 - Hands together time
 - High point?
 - Start of p.m.
 - It's 12 hours before midnight
 - Opposite of midnight
 - Common time for a lunch break
 - End of a.m.
 
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