The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word NOW which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2015.
Oxymoronic lead-in to "then" crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters | 
|---|---|---|
| NOW | 100 % | 3 | 
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Oxymoronic lead-in to "then"
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pianoforte
 - jumbo
 - elusive
 - equivocal
 - pejorative
 - ahead
 - before
 - blanch
 - blanched
 - clean
 - cleaned
 - come
 
Crossword Answer definitions
NOW noun- The present time.
 - (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
 - (chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
 
- Present; current.
 - Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
 - At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
 
- At the present time.
 - (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
 - Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
 - Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
 - At the time reached within a narration.
 - In the context of urgency.
 - As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
 
- Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
 
- Indicates a signal to begin.
 
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