Sporting contest: plan to finish early or late in the day Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Sporting contest: plan to finish early or late in the day . We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 8 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is EVENTIDE.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% EVENTIDE Sporting contest: plan to finish early or late in the day (8)
6% OBSTACLERACE Sports-day contest (8,4) (12)
5% AMS Early hours in a day: Abbr. (3)
5% ANTONYM Not many working early to late, say (7) (7) The Guardian Cryptic Oct 10, 2025
5% TOURNEY Sporting contest - time for Jack to travel (7) (7) The Guardian Cryptic Oct 8, 2025
5% EUROLAND Early nickname for a bloc assembled in the late 1990s (8) The Atlantic Oct 5, 2025
5% GOODMORNING Early-in-the-day greeting: 2 wds. (11) Commuter Sep 24, 2025
5% VIES Contests (4) New York Times Sep 13, 2025
5% ROUNDROBINS Finish off fliers for sports tournaments (11) The Telegraph Cryptic Sep 12, 2025
5% ONCUE Neither early nor late (5) LA Times Mini Aug 22, 2025
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