Answer: PRELIMS
PRELIMS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 20 times.
Referring Clues:
- Starts of tourneys
- Tourney starters
- Qualifying bouts
- Fights before the main event, for short
- Grad school hurdle
- Qualifying bouts, for short
- Fights before the big one
- Early heats
- Earlier bouts
- Early rounds
- Heats with less buzz, perhaps
- Tourney rounds
- Bouts before the big one
- Minor matches
- Olympics events rarely shown in prime time
- Early tourney rounds
- Qualifying bouts, cut
- Heats
- Main event preceders
- Early trials, informally
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - July 31, 2021
- Netword - December 11, 2020
- New York Times - April 26, 2020
- Universal - June 15, 2018
- USA Today - December 06, 2017
- New York Times - September 25, 2016
- LA Times - July 23, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 25, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 17, 2013
- Netword - July 10, 2013
- Post Puzzler - June 10, 2012
- Universal - March 18, 2011
- LA Times - December 15, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 01, 2009
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - April 19, 2009
- Washington Post - February 17, 2008
- LA Times - September 02, 2007
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 07, 2007
- LA Times - April 07, 2007
- New York Times - November 01, 2006
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