| Hour following midnight |
New York Times Mini |
20 Apr 2026 |
| Late time to stay up on a weekday |
New York Times Mini |
08 Mar 2026 |
| An hr. past midnight |
Newsday |
28 Jan 2026 |
| An hour past midnight |
New York Times Mini |
01 Jan 2026 |
| Time for a middle-of-the-night snack, maybe |
The Atlantic |
30 Dec 2025 |
| An hour after midnight: Abbr. |
Newsday |
22 Dec 2025 |
| Last call time, maybe (2 wds.) |
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| Wee hr. |
Newsday |
10 Jul 2025 |
| 60 minutes after midnight (2 wds.) |
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| Wee hour (2 wds.) |
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| Time after we "fall back" every year |
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| An hour after midnight: Abbr. |
Newsday |
10 Mar 2025 |
| Hour after midnight |
LA Times Mini |
03 Mar 2025 |
| Apt time to listen to "After Midnight" by Chappell Roan |
USA Today |
26 Feb 2025 |
| Wee hour |
LA Times Daily |
14 Feb 2025 |
| Very early morning hour (2 wds., abbr.) |
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| An hour past midnight (2 wds., abbr.) |
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| An hour after midnight |
LA Times Mini |
26 Oct 2024 |
| Last-call hr., sometimes |
LA Times Daily |
24 Oct 2024 |
| Early morning hour (2 wds.) |
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| When "SNL" wraps up |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Sep 2024 |
| Late bedtime hour |
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| An hr. after midnight |
Newsday |
06 Aug 2024 |
| Early in the day |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2024 |
| About when the host of "SNL" thanks the musical guest (2 wds.) |
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| When "SNL" stops taping, roughly (2 wds.) |
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| Wee hr. |
Newsday |
23 Jun 2024 |
| An hour after midnight: 2 wds. |
Commuter |
24 Apr 2024 |
| Late bedtime (2 wds.) |
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| Wee hr. |
LA Times Mini |
16 Mar 2024 |
| Late hour (2 wds., abbr.) |
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| When "SNL" ends in NYC |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Jan 2024 |
| Early bong from Big Ben |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Jan 2024 |
| Midnight follower (2 wds., abbr.) |
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| Late bedtime |
New York Times Mini |
22 Nov 2023 |
| Time for a chime |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Oct 2023 |
| Hour after midnight |
Universal |
29 Jun 2023 |
| Wee hour |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Jun 2023 |
| Early morning hr. |
Newsday |
17 May 2023 |
| Day's first stroke |
LA Times Daily |
22 Apr 2023 |
| 60 minutes past 00:00 |
Universal |
19 Mar 2023 |
| Late hour |
USA Today |
18 Feb 2023 |
| Wee hr |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Jan 2023 |
| Wee hr |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Dec 2022 |
| Not long after midnight |
USA Today |
07 Dec 2022 |
| Early hr. |
Newsday |
09 Oct 2022 |
| Early hr |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Sep 2022 |
| Wee hour |
LA Times Daily |
29 Nov 2021 |
| Hr. after midnight |
Newsday |
21 Sep 2021 |
| When many New Year's parties begin to die down |
New York Times |
27 May 2021 |
| Wee hour |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Apr 2021 |
| Wee hour |
Universal |
18 Apr 2021 |
| Middle-of-the-night hour |
USA Today |
07 Apr 2021 |
| An hour after midnight |
USA Today |
27 Feb 2021 |
| Two before three, half the time |
Newsday |
19 Feb 2021 |
| What takes a toll? |
New York Times |
05 Nov 2020 |
| An hr. after midnight |
Newsday |
07 Sep 2020 |
| An hr. past midnight |
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| An hr. past midnight |
LA Times Daily |
11 Aug 2020 |
| Early morning hr |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jul 2020 |
| Early morning hr |
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| An hour past midnight |
Premier Sunday |
19 Jul 2020 |
| Night shift hr |
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| Closing time for some bars |
USA Today |
13 Apr 2020 |
| Time in Boston when it's midnight in Austin |
New York Times |
25 Feb 2020 |
| Early morning hr |
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| Graveyard shift hr |
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| Latish bedtime |
USA Today |
25 Oct 2019 |
| Late hr. to turn in |
LA Times Daily |
14 Oct 2019 |
| Late hr. to turn in |
|
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| When some weekend parties end |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Oct 2019 |
| When SNL ends, in D.C |
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| A wee hr |
Newsday |
18 Jun 2019 |
| Hour after midnight |
Newsday |
01 Apr 2019 |
| Late bedtime |
Universal |
25 Feb 2019 |
| Late bedtime |
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| When some weekend parties end |
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| Latish bedtime |
|
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| Late hr. to turn in |
|
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| Wee hr |
|
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| Wee hr |
LA Times Daily |
05 Dec 2018 |
| Small time? |
Newsday |
01 Dec 2018 |
| Early morning hour |
Newsday |
07 Sep 2018 |
| Barely into a new day |
Newsday |
26 Jul 2018 |
| Very early hr |
Newsday |
20 Apr 2018 |
| When 'S.N.L.' ends on the East Coast |
New York Times |
20 Feb 2018 |
| Hour in the graveyard shift |
|
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| Wee hr. |
|
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| When "SNL" wraps |
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| When "S.N.L." ends on the East Coast |
|
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| When 'SNL' ends in NYC |
|
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| A wee hour |
New York Times |
20 Jun 2017 |
| Early morning hr |
USA Today |
28 Apr 2017 |
| Hour in the graveyard shift |
New York Times |
12 Mar 2017 |
| 11 hours before noon |
Premier Sunday |
12 Mar 2017 |
| Early hr |
|
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| When "SNL" ends in NYC |
|
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| Hour in the graveyard shift |
|
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| A wee hour |
|
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| Early morning hr. |
|
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| Late-night hour |
Universal |
26 Dec 2016 |
| Early or late hr., depending |
LA Times Daily |
16 Dec 2016 |
| Wee hour |
|
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| Night-shift hr |
Newsday |
09 Oct 2016 |
| When "SNL" ends in NYC, approximately |
USA Today |
03 Oct 2016 |
| Wee hr |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Aug 2016 |
| Wee hr |
USA Today |
09 Jun 2016 |
| When some fast food drive-thrus close |
|
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| Early hour |
New York Times |
27 May 2016 |
| When infomercials start running, sometimes |
|
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| When "SNL" ends in NYC, approximately |
|
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| Wee hr. |
|
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| Late-night hour |
|
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| Early hour |
|
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| Early or late hr., depending |
|
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| Hr. after midnight |
Newsday |
18 Oct 2015 |
| Bar closing hr |
LA Times Daily |
15 Oct 2015 |
| Wee hour |
Newsday |
02 Aug 2015 |
| When 'SNL' ends, in local time |
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| Rather late bedtime |
Newsday |
18 Jan 2015 |
| Rather late bedtime |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Bar closing hr. |
|
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| Hr. after midnight |
|
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| When "SNL" ends, in local time |
|
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| When New York's Central Park closes |
|
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| Time to retire, maybe |
|
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| Graveyard shift hr. |
|
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| Top of the morning? |
|
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| Infant feeding time |
|
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| Early morning hr. |
|
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| An hr. after midnight |
|
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| Early morning hr. |
|
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| Hour after midnight |
|
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| Weest of wee hours |
|
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| Time in NYC when it's 10 p.m. in L.A. |
|
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| Two bells, in the Navy |
|
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| A wee hour |
|
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| Early hour |
|
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| What a single stroke might indicate |
|
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| An hour after midnight |
|
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| Late retirement time |
|
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| Latish curfew |
|
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| When last call may be announced |
|
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| Two bells, in the Navy |
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| Late retirement time |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Wee hr. |
|
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| Latish curfew |
|
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| Day's first stroke? |
|
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| Graveyard shift hr. |
|
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| Late show hr. |
|
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| Chaplin film about a late-coming homeowner |
|
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| Graveyard shift hr. |
|
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| A wee hr. |
|
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| Mid-night hour |
|
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| Late show hr. |
|
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| Midnight follower |
|
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| When "SNL" is over in NYC |
|
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| An hour into the graveyard shift, usually |
|
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| Two bells, to bosuns |
|
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| Wee hr. |
|
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| Third shift hr. |
|
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| What the ringing of two bells might signal on a ship |
|
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| Common time for 38-Across |
|
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| Early morning hour |
|
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| Witching hr. follower |
|
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| Midnight follower |
|
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| Top of the morning? |
|
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| Top of the morning? |
|
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| Third shift hr. |
|
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| Witching hr. follower |
|
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| When "SNL" ends in NYC |
|
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| Two bells, at sea |
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| Early hr. |
|
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| Early hr. |
|
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| Sixty past midnight |
|
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| Two bells, at sea |
|
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| Bedtime hr. after a late date, perhaps |
|
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| Graveyard shift hour |
|
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| Bedtime hr. after a late date, perhaps |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| When SNL ends in NYC |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Wee hr. |
|
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| Night-shift hr. |
|
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| Early hr. |
|
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| Late hr. |
|
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| Possible starting time for a rave |
|
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| Two bells, on the middle watch |
|
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| Hr. after midnight |
|
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| Early hr. |
|
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| When SNL wraps |
|
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| Late bedtime |
|
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| Latish bedtime |
|
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| When SNL ends in NYC |
|
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| It may be indicated by a stroke |
|
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| Bad time to be awoken |
|
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| Time after we "fall back" to standard time |
|
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| "SNL" finish time, in N.Y. |
|
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| Hr. after midnight |
|
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| Late late hour |
|
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| Time in NYC when it's midnight in Chicago |
|
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| Early hr. |
|
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| A wee hr. |
|
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| When Central Park closes |
|
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| A wee hour |
|
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| A stroke might indicate it |
|
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| Two bells, in a sailor's middle watch |
|
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| When a second-shift employee may get home |
|
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| 60 minutes after midnight |
|
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| Two bells, in the Navy |
|
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| Witching hour follower |
|
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| Closing time for a bar, perhaps |
|
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| 11 hours before noon |
|
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| Late-night time |
|
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| Top of the morning? |
|
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| When "SNL" ends, in NYC |
|
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| Very early in the day |
|
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| Small hour |
|
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| Midnight follower |
|
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| When "SNL" ends, in NYC |
|
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| When "SNL" wraps |
|
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| Late bedtime |
|
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| Time after retiring? |
|
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| It may be indicated by a stroke |
|
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| Late bedtime, for most |
|
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| When SNL is over |
|
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| Night owl's time |
|
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| When "S.N.L." ends |
|
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| Early hr. |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Early hour |
|
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| First ding in the morning? |
|
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| New time at the instant DST ends |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Latish bedtime |
|
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| Late bedtime |
|
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| Late bedtime |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| A wee hr. |
|
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| When "SNL" ends |
|
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| When "S.N.L." ends in N.Y.C. |
|
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| Top of the morning |
|
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| A wee hr. |
|
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| Late bedtime |
|
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| Late bedtime |
|
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| A wee hr. |
|
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| A wee hour |
|
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| "The Late, Late Show" hr. |
|
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| A wee hr. |
|
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| When last call may be announced |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Late-late show hour |
|
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| Top of the morning? |
|
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| Late-night hour |
|
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| Sixty minutes past midnight |
|
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| A wee hour |
|
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| Bedtime for some |
|
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| Top of the morning |
|
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| Early hour |
|
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| Just past midnight |
|
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| High time in Hickory Dickory Dock |
|
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| When "S.N.L." ends, in most places |
|
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| Late-late show hour |
|
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| Wee hour |
|
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| Late, late news time |
|
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| Midnight plus 60 minutes |
|
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| Wee, small hour |
|
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| Early morning hour. |
|
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| Last call in some cities |
|
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| Nighttime feeding time, perhaps |
|
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