The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LATE
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More clues leading to the result LATE
- Behind schedule, learner driver worried
- First of lunches consumed behind schedule
- Severely criticise after section’s deleted near the end
- Departed behind schedule
- Slow learner gets letter wrong way round
- Delayed learner gets put away
- Former Liberal worried
- Former illustration in book with page missing
- Tenor leaving coffee behind
- Apprentice dined and departed
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What does LATE mean?
LATE noun- A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
- Near the end of a period of time.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
- Not arriving until after an expected time.
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Often used with "the"; see usage notes.)
- Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
- After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
- Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
- Not long ago; just now.