Spring not entirely long? There's an extra day in it (4,4) Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Spring not entirely long? There's an extra day in it (4,4) featured in Guardian Cryptic puzzle on October 21, 2025. 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 LEAPYEAR.

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Crossword Answer For Spring not entirely long? There's an extra day in it (4,4):

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% LEAPYEAR Spring not entirely long? There's an extra day in it (4,4) (8) The Guardian Cryptic Oct 21, 2025
56% LAT Long.'s counterpart (3) Universal Sep 4, 2025
53% WHOLE Entire (5) The Telegraph Quick Oct 15, 2025
53% ADDENDUM Notice study - not entirely stupid - as an extra item (8) (8) The Guardian Quiptic Oct 5, 2025
53% PAST Days long gone (4)
51% SPA Spring (3) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Oct 20, 2025
51% SPARES Extras (6) USA Today Oct 19, 2025
51% LEAP Spring (4) Wall Street Journal Oct 18, 2025
51% ELSE Something __ entirely (4) Newsday Oct 15, 2025
51% SPARE Extra (5) New York Times Oct 5, 2025

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