Answer: PRELIM
PRELIM is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 50 times.
Referring Clues:
- Early round
 - Early game in a tournament
 - Qualifying round, informally
 - Heat, of a sort
 - Bout before the main event
 - Early round, for short
 - Main event preceder
 - Main event opener, briefly
 - Fight before the main fight
 - Minor match
 - Early match, briefly
 - Early tournament match, for short
 - It's before the main event, briefly
 - Heat, for short
 - Early round, briefly
 - Main-event preceder
 - Fight before the main fight, briefly
 - Bout before the main event, briefly
 - Main event preceder, for short
 - Qualifying bout, for short
 - Main event preceder, briefly
 - Main-event preceder, briefly
 - Undercard boxing bout
 - Event before the main event
 - Early game in a tourney
 - Match before the main event, briefly
 - Pre-doctoral exam
 - Early tourney match
 - Bout before the biggie
 - Event featuring unqualified competition?
 - Early match
 - Opening bout, briefly
 - Qualifier
 - Tourney starter
 - Early round, perhaps
 - Heat, informally
 - Early tournament match, informally
 - A kind of bout, for short
 - Qualifying match
 - Qualifying match, informally
 - Early tourney round
 - Heat
 - Heat at a meet, for short
 - Qualifying match, briefly
 - Opening bout, for short
 - Early boxing match, informally
 - Heat at a race
 - Early heat, informally
 - Early round in a competition, informally
 - Early match, for short
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - May 11, 2025
 - LA Times - May 07, 2025
 - New York Times - May 14, 2024
 - USA Today - July 07, 2023
 - LA Times - September 04, 2022
 - LA Times - December 28, 2020
 - Universal - July 02, 2019
 - LA Times - June 09, 2019
 - LA Times - May 26, 2019
 - LA Times - January 18, 2019
 - New York Times - August 25, 2018
 - Netword - March 18, 2018
 - New York Times - August 27, 2017
 - USA Today - September 12, 2016
 - New York Times - September 06, 2016
 - USA Today - August 11, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 31, 2016
 - Canadiana - November 16, 2015
 - New York Times - September 07, 2015
 - New York Times - March 08, 2015
 
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