The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 2 plus 4 letter word IN TIME
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result IN TIME
- Eventually featured by news magazine
- Before too late, hint at leaving
- Eventually popular issue comes up
- Eventually keeping rhythm
- Keeping rhythm, eventually
- Mint that is replanted eventually?
- Later perhaps, but not too late
- Contents of hints aimed early enough
- What musicians should be eventually?
- Sooner or later hint at leaving
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The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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