The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MIDNIGHT
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More clues leading to the result MIDNIGHT
- Headliners in Miles Davis evening covering start of iconic A Kind of Blue?
- Power to restrict horrible din late in the day
- Suggestion of G 12
- Power to restrict disorderly din at this late hour?
- When date changes I don’t oddly cut power
- 12 flipping thick, Lewis Hamilton now said
- G?
- G type of oil burnt by late work
- G12?
- Timing hand slipped losing an hour of darkness (8
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The straight part
We know that "this late hour?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case this late hour? = midnight.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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What does MIDNIGHT mean?
MIDNIGHT noun- The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
- 12 o'clock at night exactly.
- Utterly dark or black.