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598 recorded uses

DateClue
2026-08-09Before, poetically
2026-08-05Before, in a hymnbook
2026-07-04Before, in olden times
2026-06-28Shakespearean conjunction
2026-06-01Before, to Shakespeare
2026-05-08Bygone "before"
2026-02-18Old-fashioned word that's a homophone of 49-Across
2025-11-08"Then it was well with me, in days ___ I was born": Housman
2025-10-12Afore
2025-08-20Before, poetically
2025-07-14Poetic "before"
2025-07-06Before, poetically
2025-06-20Before, in a poem
2025-06-16Before, poetically
2025-05-27Before, in poetry
2025-05-17"Ended, ___ it begun" (Emily Dickinson poem)
2025-04-08Before, in poetry
2025-02-16Poet's palindromic preposition
2024-12-21Short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one
2024-11-14Before, in classic poetry
2024-09-29"___ the bonnie boat was won / As we sailed into the mystic" (Van Morrison lyric)
2024-09-22Ahead of, in poetry
2024-09-11Palindromic preposition
2024-08-15Poetic palindrome
2024-08-03Old word of precedence
2024-07-31Before, poetically
2024-07-29Bard's "before"
2024-06-17Before, poetically
2024-06-05Afore
2024-05-15Before, in verse
2024-04-21Afore
2024-04-14Before, to Shakespeare
2024-02-21Prior to, in poetry
2024-02-13"Before" of yore
2024-01-21Poetic preposition
2024-01-15Before, in poetry
2023-12-18Before, in poetry
2023-12-17Previously, in poetry
2023-12-06Hardy's "before"
2023-10-19How English poets wrote previously?
2023-09-12Before, in poetry
2023-08-27Before, once
2023-08-25Palindromic adverb
2023-07-18Before, poetically
2023-07-16Afore
2023-06-04Before, once
2023-06-03Preceder to long or now
2023-05-21Before, poetically
2023-05-02Poetry palindrome
2023-04-30Before, in poetry
2023-04-24Palindromic preposition in poems
2023-04-18Before, in poetry
2023-04-09Poetic palindrome
2023-04-08"I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ___ one chaste man": Shak.
2023-04-04Before, to a bard
2023-03-31"That will be ___ the set of sun": Shak.
2023-03-26Before, in poetry
2023-03-21Palindromic poetic preposition
2023-03-05'Fore
2023-02-05Previously, poetically
2023-01-26Palindromic word in classic poetry
2023-01-25Before, in poetry
2023-01-14Poetic palindrome
2022-12-31Afore
2022-10-19Before, to Byron
2022-10-16Afore
2022-10-12Before, poetically
2022-09-07Before, poetically
2022-07-21Poetic conjunction
2022-07-06Poetic preposition
2022-06-30Poet's palindromic preposition
2022-06-28"Take heed, ___ summer comes, or cuckoo-birds do sing": "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
2022-04-29"___ sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes": Paul Laurence Dunbar
2022-04-23Palindromic preposition
2022-04-21Bard's "before"
2022-03-22Before, poetically
2022-02-27Quaint lead-in to while
2022-02-26"... ___ I again behold my Romeo!": Juliet
2022-02-17Before, in verse
2022-02-16Before, to Shakespeare
2022-02-07Poet's "before"
2022-01-26Lead-in to "long"
2021-12-06"... ___ he drove out of sight ..."
2021-12-05Before, poetically
2021-11-28Before, once
2021-11-23"Able was I ___ ..."
2021-11-21Before, in poetry
2021-11-20Word before now
2021-11-17Before, in poetry
2021-11-01"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2021-10-14Old-fashioned preposition
2021-09-02Lead-in to long
2021-08-14Lead-in to now
2021-07-23"I shall see thee, ___ I die, look pale with love": "Much Ado About Nothing"
2021-07-22"I kissed thee ___ I kill'd thee": "Othello"
2021-06-23'Fore
2021-03-22Preceding, poetically
2021-03-15Poet's "before"
2021-03-08Before, poetically
2021-03-02Before, to poets
2021-02-23Before, in poetry
2021-02-13"Why, every fault's condemn'd ___ it be done": "Measure for Measure"
2021-01-12"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2020-11-19Afore
2020-11-02Before, in a poem
2020-10-16What can come before long
2020-10-02"Take heed, ___ summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing": "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
2020-08-20With 19-Across, heretofore
2020-08-08Infinitive verb suffix in Italian
2020-07-23Poet's "before"
2020-07-01Outmoded preposition
2020-06-22Before, to poets
2020-06-21Palindromic preposition
2020-05-14'Fore
2020-05-04Before, in verse
2020-04-19Palindrome in poetry
2020-04-16Prior to, in verse
2020-04-12Lead-in to long
2020-04-02Afore
2020-03-24Bard's "before"
2020-03-09Before, in poetry
2020-02-07Before, in odes
2020-01-05Poetic "before"
2019-12-15Lead-in to long
2019-11-13Before, in verse
2019-10-08Before, to a bard
2019-09-03"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2019-05-28Before, to bards
2019-05-27Poet's "before"
2019-05-06Bard's "before"
2019-04-26Lead-in to long
2019-04-23Before, in verse
2019-04-15"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight ..."
2019-04-02"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2019-03-25Before, in poetry
2019-03-24Poet's "before"
2019-03-17Poetic conjunction
2019-03-15"___, little darlin', don't shed no tears" (lyric in Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry")
2019-02-06Byron's "before"
2019-01-22Before, in poetry
2019-01-13"We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Hamlet
2018-12-21Ahead of, poetically
2018-11-27Before, to poets
2018-11-13Word following "Able was I ..."
2018-11-05Before, poetically
2018-10-31Afore
2018-10-10'Fore
2018-09-29Ahead of, old-style
2018-09-25Before, to poets
2018-08-30'Fore
2018-08-23Poetic preposition
2018-08-19"Thanks in old age - thanks ___ I go": Whitman
2018-08-11It comes before long
2018-07-25Bard's "before"
2018-06-09Now or long lead-in
2018-06-05"That will be ___ the set of sun" (line from the first scene of "Macbeth")
2018-05-28Before, in poetry
2018-05-06"___ Music's golden tongue / Flatter'd to tears this aged man ...": Keats
2018-04-17"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he ..."
2018-04-06Poetic preposition
2018-03-21Lead-in to long
2018-02-05"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight ..."
2018-01-31Before, in poetry
2018-01-21Before, poetically
2018-01-18"Listen ___!" (Cockney cry)
2017-11-03In advance of
2017-10-24Conjunction in the middle of a famous palindrome
2017-08-04Ahead of, old-style
2017-07-22"___ Fancy has been quelled": Longfellow
2017-06-11Before, to a bard
2017-02-14Before, to poets
2017-02-05Poetic preposition
2017-01-23Before, to Byron
2017-01-15'Fore
2017-01-06"Thanks in old age - thanks ___ I go": Walt Whitman
2016-12-27Before, poetically
2016-11-24"Ended, ___ it begun" (Emily Dickinson poem)
2016-10-16"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2016-09-08Lead-in to long
2016-09-03Up until, in poetry
2016-07-30Emily Dickinson's "Ended, ___ it begun"
2016-07-13Before, to a poet
2016-07-05Poetic preposition
2016-06-28Poet's "before"
2016-06-26Before, poetically
2016-06-05"We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Hamlet
2016-05-16Before, to a bard
2016-05-13"___ on my bed my limbs I lay" (line from Coleridge)
2016-04-24"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2016-04-04"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2016-03-16Before, old-style
2016-02-16Before, poetically
2016-01-11Prior to, poetically
2015-11-29Burns's "before"
2015-10-25"Lord, We Ask Thee ___ We Part" (hymn)
2015-09-30Bard's preposition
2015-09-16Before, poetically
2015-09-09Poetic preposition
2015-08-12Before, in poetry
2015-07-09Poetic conjunction
2015-06-15Before, in poetry
2015-06-03Poetic palindrome
2015-05-04Before, to a poet
2015-04-26Poetic preposition
2015-04-09Poetic preposition
2015-04-02'Fore
2015-03-10Before, to Byron
2015-02-15Before
2015-02-08Poet's "prior to"
2015-02-03Before, in poetry
2015-01-12Prior to, poetically
2015-01-03Ahead of, once
2014-12-21'Fore
2014-11-25Before, to the Bard
2014-11-19Bard's preposition
2014-11-17Before, poetically
2014-11-11Poet's "before"
2014-10-19Before, to Byron
2014-09-20"Maid of Athens, ___ we part": Byron
2014-07-21Before, to poets
2014-06-01Before, poetically
2014-05-22Long intro?
2014-04-13"We shun it ___ it comes": Dickinson
2014-04-09Bard's preposition
2014-03-08"___ I forsook the crowded solitude": Wordsworth
2014-02-23Odist's preposition
2014-02-19"___ fancy you consult, consult your purse": Franklin
2013-12-21Lead-in to now
2013-10-10"Listen, ___ the sound be fled": Longfellow
2013-09-09Before, poetically
2013-09-01Before, in verse
2013-08-28"Inconstancy falls off ___ it begins": Shak.
2013-08-21'Fore
2013-08-18Before, in sonnets
2013-08-01Poetic preposition
2013-07-28Before, poetically
2013-07-21Before, poetically
2013-06-03Before, poetically
2013-04-22Before, to poets
2013-03-11Before, in verse
2013-02-26Before, to Kipling
2013-02-17Poet's "before"
2013-02-13'Fore
2013-01-28Before, to a bard
2013-01-06"Let us part, ___ the season of passion forget us": Yeats
2012-10-25Poetic preposition
2012-10-15Byron's "before"
2012-10-09"I kiss'd thee ___ I kill'd thee": Othello
2012-09-30Odist's "before"
2012-09-09'Fore
2012-08-20Prior to, in verse
2012-07-22Before, to a poet
2012-05-13"We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Hamlet
2012-04-08Afore
2012-02-26Poetic preposition
2012-02-15Poetic preposition
2012-02-05Before, in verse
2011-12-10Syllable-saving poetic word
2011-11-14Before, poetically
2011-07-07Before, in verse
2011-06-19Before, to Byron
2011-06-13Before, to a poet
2011-05-31Bard's "before"
2011-05-12Poet's preposition
2011-05-01Poet's "before"
2011-04-24Poet's "before"
2011-04-14'Fore
2011-04-13Previous to, in verse
2011-03-13Poetic preposition
2011-01-22"___ thou and peace may meet": Shelley
2010-12-27Before, poetically
2010-12-05"We shun it ___ it comes": Emily Dickinson
2010-11-29Before, poetically
2010-11-01"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2010-10-20Poetic preposition
2010-09-22Before, to Byron
2010-09-14Before, in verse
2010-09-05Palindromic preposition
2010-07-10Up until
2010-06-12Homophone of 25-Across
2010-05-18Bard's "before"
2010-05-06Preposition before now
2010-04-29"___ fancy you consult, consult your purse": Benjamin Franklin
2010-03-18Reversible preposition
2010-02-19Ahead of, in verse
2010-02-11"Maid of Athens, ___ We Part" (Byron poem)
2010-01-21"We shun it ___ it comes": Emily Dickinson
2010-01-14Not there, to 11-Down
2009-12-10Before, in a ballade
2009-12-08Bard's "before"
2009-11-12"___ upon my bed I lay me": Longfellow
2009-09-22Before, to Byron
2009-08-26Bard's before
2009-07-14"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2009-07-13Before, poetically
2009-06-27Outmoded preposition
2009-06-25Long introduction?
2009-05-19Before, to a bard
2009-03-30Before, poetically
2009-03-26"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2009-03-08Poetic preposition
2009-03-05"___ I let fall the windows of mine eyes": Shak.
2009-01-01"___ the bat hath flown / His cloister'd flight ...": Macbeth
2008-11-27Poetic preposition
2008-11-22"Blood hath been shed ___ now": Macbeth
2008-11-15Fore
2008-09-30Bard's "before"
2008-09-23Bard's "before"
2008-08-31Prior to, in verse
2008-08-13Poetic preposition
2008-08-07Poetic preposition
2008-03-27Afore
2008-03-06Poetic conjunction
2008-02-01"A little ___ the mightiest Julius fell": Shak.
2007-12-30Before, in verse
2007-10-26In advance of
2007-10-09Before, in poetry
2007-10-01"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove ..."
2007-09-30"Myself was stirring ___ the break of day": Shak.
2007-09-17"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
2007-08-28Bard's "before"
2007-08-26Poetic preposition
2007-06-14Palindromic preposition
2007-03-15Prior to, in verse
2007-03-14"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2007-03-11"___ Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" (Dunbar poem)
2007-02-19Byron's "before"
2007-01-29Poet's before
2007-01-25"___ the long roll of the ages end" (start of an old Irish song)
2007-01-16Bard's before
2006-12-05Before, to bards
2006-11-21It comes before long
2006-11-08Bard's "before"
2006-10-29Bard's "before"
2006-10-26"For Lycidas is dead, dead ___ his prime": Milton
2006-10-23"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he …"
2006-10-20Long intro?
2006-09-21In the time leading up to
2006-09-03Poetic preposition
2006-08-24"___ Time transfigured me": Yeats
2006-08-09Poet's preposition
2006-08-02Browning's "before"
2006-07-17"Able was I ___ …"
2006-05-28Lead-in for long
2006-05-14"I hope to see London once ___ I die": "Henry IV, Part 2"
2006-05-11Byronic "before"
2006-05-01Before, in verse
2006-04-19Before, to bards
2006-04-04Before, to poets
2006-03-30Afore
2006-03-06Poet's "before"
2006-03-05"… ___ he drove out of sight"
2006-02-27Afore
2006-01-31Before, in poetry
2005-12-15Afore
2005-12-01Long introduction?
2005-11-30Before of yore
2005-11-10Before, in poetry
2005-10-26"But I heard him exclaim, ___ …"
2005-10-22"… ___ I again behold my Romeo!"
2005-10-18Bard's before
2005-10-09'Fore
2005-10-07"Maid of Athens, ___ We Part" (Byron poem)
2005-10-02Before
2005-09-28Prior to, to Prior
2005-09-21Palindromic preposition
2005-09-17"... ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth"
2005-09-01Afore
2005-08-17Afore
2005-07-23It may appear before long
2005-06-21Before, before
2005-06-05"___ the bat hath flown / His cloister'd flight …": Macbeth
2005-03-30Poetic conjunction
2005-03-27Prior to, to Prior
2005-03-22Before, in verse
2005-02-28Before, in verse
2005-02-25Up until
2005-02-06Poetic preposition
2005-01-30Afore
2005-01-17Afore
2004-09-20Before, in verse
2004-09-12"I kissed thee ___ I killed thee": Othello
2004-08-09Before, in poetry
2004-08-08Afore
2004-08-02Poetic palindrome
2004-07-26Before, in poetry
2004-07-01"A little ___ the mightiest Julius fell": Shak.
2004-06-24Sooner than
2004-06-21Before, in 29-Down
2004-06-19"___ Time transfigured me": Yeats
2004-04-26Afore
2004-04-18Ode preposition
2004-03-17Before
2004-03-09Poet's preposition
2004-02-02Before, to Byron
2003-12-30Before, once
2003-12-11"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he ..."
2003-11-26Poetic palindrome
2003-10-15Prior to, in poesy
2003-09-30Prior to, poetically
2003-08-25Prior to, to Prior
2003-08-14It comes before long
2003-07-27"That will be ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth"
2003-07-23Before, before
2003-06-29Bard's preposition
2003-05-25Afore
2003-03-22"... the sun paused ___ it should alight": Shelley
2003-03-14"... die strangled ___ my Romeo comes?": Shak.
2003-03-09Prior to
2003-01-15Palindrome center
2003-01-05Before, in verse
2002-12-09Before, to bards
2002-12-08Poet's preposition
2002-11-03Before
2002-11-02"___ the mother's milk had dried": Kipling
2002-10-16"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2002-10-06"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2002-09-30Before, once
2002-07-22Before, of yore
2002-07-02Bard's before
2002-06-27Palindromic conjunction
2002-05-06Poetic preposition
2002-04-21". ___ he drove out of sight ."
2002-03-19Bard's before
2002-02-26Palindromic preposition
2002-02-21Poetic preposition
2002-02-13Poetic preposition
2002-01-20Prior to
2002-01-15"___ pales in Heaven the morning star": Lowell
2002-01-10Word before long or now
2001-12-27Prior to
2001-11-13Prior to, to Prior
2001-10-03Prior to
2001-09-30"___ the steamer bore him Eastward ...": Kipling
2001-08-12Poetic preposition
2001-07-24Bard's before
2001-07-17Bard's "before"
2001-06-19Before, to bards
2001-05-16Afore
2001-04-13"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2001-03-19Before, in poetry
2001-03-05Prior to, in poetry
2001-03-04Afore
2001-02-03"___ pales in Heaven the morning star": Lowell
2001-01-14Poetic preposition
2001-01-08"... ___ he drove out of sight"
2000-12-09Prior to
2000-12-03Before, once
2000-11-26Prior to
2000-11-19Afore
2000-11-06Bard's before
2000-10-22Anteceding
2000-10-20Word before while
2000-10-12"___ on my bed my limbs I lay": Coleridge
2000-09-22Prior to
2000-09-07Before, once
2000-09-03Preceding, in verse
2000-09-01"___ he drove out of sight..."
2000-08-23Long intro?
2000-08-01Before, to Burns
2000-07-17Before, to a bard
2000-07-12Poetic palindrome
2000-06-30Prior to, to Prior
2000-05-26Word before now
2000-05-19It comes before long
2000-04-25Before, to Burns
2000-04-18Before, in poetry
2000-04-14"___ on my bed my limbs I lay": Coleridge
2000-04-12Poetic preposition
2000-04-11Bard's "before"
2000-03-26Before, of yore
2000-03-17Before, once
2000-02-28Before, for a bard
2000-02-26It may come before long
2000-01-30Poetic preposition
2000-01-12Earlier than
1999-12-28Prior to, to Prior
1999-12-19Before, once
1999-11-22Before
1999-10-26Bard's "before"
1999-09-26Previous to
1999-07-13Before, to bards
1999-07-11Shortly before?
1999-07-03"___ pales in Heaven the morning star": Lowell
1999-06-08Poet's preposition
1999-06-07Prior to, in old times
1999-06-05In advance of
1999-06-01Before, in verse
1999-05-25Before, in verse
1999-05-21It comes before long
1999-05-09"___ he drove out of sight..."
1999-04-28Shortly before?
1999-04-08Before, once
1999-04-01Before
1999-01-05Before, in poetry
1998-12-14Before, in poetry
1998-12-04Poet's preposition
1998-11-08Prior to
1998-10-26Before, once
1998-10-25"Able was I ___..."
1998-10-17James Whitcomb Riley's "___ I Went Mad"
1998-09-25Word used before now
1998-09-20Poetic preposition
1998-08-30Prior to
1998-07-23Afore
1998-05-16Poetic preposition
1998-05-10Poetic preposition
1998-05-08Afore
1998-04-24Obsolete preposition
1998-04-02Prior to, to Prior
1998-03-22Poetic preposition
1998-03-16Before, in poetry
1998-03-08Afore
1998-02-20"Look ___ ye leap"
1998-02-13Afore
1997-11-15Poetic preposition
1997-11-09"Maid of Athens, ___ we part": Byron
1997-10-28Poetic palindrome
1997-10-26Afore
1997-10-19Before, once
1997-10-16Before, to Byron
1997-10-03Palindromist's preposition
1997-09-07James Whitcomb Riley's "___ I Went Mad"
1997-08-20Poetic preposition
1997-08-17Afore
1997-08-15Middle of a famous palindrome
1997-08-03Before, in poetry
1997-07-13Before, once
1997-07-07Prior to, poetically
1997-06-20Before
1997-05-05Before, in verse
1997-05-04Prior to, poetically
1997-04-15Poet's "before"
1997-04-03Poet's preposition
1997-02-18Palindromic preposition
1997-02-16Poetic preposition
1997-02-15Afore
1997-01-31Up until
1997-01-28Before, in verse
1997-01-07Before, to a poet
1997-01-06"Able was I ___..."
1996-12-15Poetic preposition
1996-12-03Before, to poets
1996-11-10Obsolescent preposition
1996-09-20Afore
1996-08-25Prior to, in poetry
1996-08-09Palindromic preposition
1996-07-19Prior to
1996-05-09Before
1996-04-28Before
1996-04-18Byron's before
1996-03-30Previous word
1996-03-27Byron's before
1996-03-24Before, to Byron
1996-02-23Until
1996-02-18Prior to
1996-02-02Long opening?
1995-10-30Before, to Byron
1995-10-15Rather than
1995-09-27Afore
1995-08-24Before
1995-08-13Afore
1995-08-01"Able was I ____ ..."
1995-07-29Riley's "_____ I Went Mad"
1995-07-26Before
1995-07-25Sooner than
1995-07-16Before
1995-06-30Prior to
1995-04-25Before, to Browning
1995-04-16Prior to
1995-04-09Poetic preposition
1995-03-06Before
1994-12-27Afore
1994-12-04Before
1994-11-28Prior, to Prior
1994-11-02Before, in verse
1994-09-29Palindromic preposition
1994-09-14Before
1994-08-28Long opening
1994-08-25Before
1994-08-16Afore
1994-07-21Long start
1994-07-16James Whitcomb Riley's "_____ I Went Mad"
1994-07-13Before, to Burns
1994-06-03Before, before
1994-05-23Prior to, in poems
1994-05-06Prior to
1994-04-12Afore
1994-02-27Long intro
1994-02-16Till
1994-02-08Before, to Byron
1994-02-02Poet's word
1994-01-15Earlier than
1994-01-10Prior, to Prior
1994-01-05Up to
1993-12-12Rather than, to Cowper
1993-12-07Before, in palindromes
1993-12-02Before, to bards