| 2026-05-04 | Used to be |
| 2026-03-27 | Served as |
| 2026-03-23 | Used to be |
| 2026-02-27 | Happened |
| 2025-11-28 | Served as |
| 2025-06-05 | *Street urchins |
| 2025-05-05 | Once existed |
| 2025-04-14 | "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ a bear …" |
| 2025-03-26 | "Time ___ …" |
| 2025-01-02 | Is in the past |
| 2024-08-06 | Is no longer |
| 2024-06-21 | What might come between "that" and "that" |
| 2024-04-25 | Historian's verb |
| 2024-03-18 | "As I ___ saying ..." |
| 2024-03-15 | "And She ___" (Talking Heads hit) |
| 2024-03-13 | Played the role of |
| 2024-02-22 | "Time ___ …" |
| 2023-10-29 | "As It ___" (Harry Styles hit) |
| 2023-08-02 | Used to be |
| 2023-04-27 | Is no more |
| 2023-04-17 | Is, before |
| 2023-04-04 | Used to be |
| 2023-03-23 | Portrayed |
| 2023-02-21 | Third word in many limericks |
| 2023-01-30 | "A good time ___ had by all" |
| 2022-11-15 | "Hmm, where ___ I?" |
| 2022-10-27 | "That __ Then, This Is Now" (1971 S. E. Hinton novel) |
| 2022-09-25 | Word between "what" and "that" |
| 2022-08-14 | Were, for one? |
| 2022-08-07 | "Time ___ …" |
| 2022-07-10 | Second word of many a limerick |
| 2022-02-28 | The Beatles' "Till There ___ You" |
| 2022-02-20 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2021-11-10 | Is, in hindsight |
| 2021-08-26 | Functioned as |
| 2021-06-01 | Third word in many limericks |
| 2021-05-27 | "How ___ it?" |
| 2021-03-21 | Word in obituaries |
| 2020-12-15 | See 24-Across |
| 2020-12-06 | Used to be |
| 2020-10-26 | "That ___ a close one!" |
| 2020-09-30 | "What had happened ___ ..." |
| 2020-09-27 | Used to be |
| 2020-09-17 | Third word of many a limerick |
| 2020-05-20 | Is, in retrospect |
| 2020-03-05 | Used to be |
| 2019-09-28 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 2019-08-02 | "How ___ it?" |
| 2019-07-15 | "Able ___ I ere I saw Elba" |
| 2019-06-29 | "Till There ___ You," song from "The Music Man" |
| 2019-05-05 | Acted as |
| 2018-10-23 | "Now where ___ I?" |
| 2018-09-23 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2018-07-20 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2018-02-07 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2017-04-16 | Third word of many limericks |
| 2017-04-01 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2016-12-07 | Used to be |
| 2016-09-20 | "Kilroy ___ here" |
| 2016-07-31 | "I wish I ___ [sic] homeward bound": Paul Simon |
| 2016-06-19 | Lived |
| 2016-02-11 | Never-___ (unsuccessful sort) |
| 2015-11-30 | "Now where ___ I?" |
| 2015-08-08 | "Never ___" |
| 2015-02-02 | Existed |
| 2015-01-14 | Limerick's third word, often |
| 2015-01-12 | Existed |
| 2014-07-21 | Used to be |
| 2014-06-09 | Used to be |
| 2013-11-03 | Second word of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 2013-01-07 | "There ___ an old woman ..." |
| 2012-09-24 | "___ it something I said?" |
| 2012-04-24 | Has been |
| 2012-02-26 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2011-09-02 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2011-08-21 | Has been |
| 2011-07-03 | Lived and breathed |
| 2010-08-22 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2009-09-09 | "Time ___ ..." |
| 2009-07-04 | Performed the role of |
| 2008-09-14 | Is past? |
| 2008-06-05 | Is in the past |
| 2008-05-17 | Functioned as |
| 2007-12-27 | Lived |
| 2007-12-16 | Had a life |
| 2007-02-06 | Isn't anymore |
| 2007-01-25 | Functioned as |
| 2006-09-15 | Took place |
| 2006-05-01 | Lived |
| 2006-02-25 | Served as |
| 2006-02-17 | Verb for a historian |
| 2006-02-13 | Existed |
| 2006-01-26 | Has been |
| 2005-03-08 | Used to be |
| 2005-01-26 | Functioned as |
| 2004-04-12 | "What ___ I saying?" |
| 2004-04-11 | Used to be |
| 2004-03-07 | Lived |
| 2002-09-01 | Occurred |
| 2002-03-04 | Lived |
| 2002-01-25 | Is in the past? |
| 2001-10-10 | Used to be |
| 2001-06-21 | Lived |
| 2001-02-25 | Is no longer |
| 2001-01-25 | Is in another form? |
| 2000-11-29 | Is in the past? |
| 2000-03-05 | Breathed |
| 2000-02-08 | Used to be |
| 2000-02-06 | Walked the earth |
| 1999-09-13 | Lived |
| 1998-11-17 | Is no longer |
| 1998-09-06 | Took place |
| 1998-05-17 | Took place |
| 1997-06-20 | Third word in a limerick |
| 1997-02-07 | Used to be |
| 1997-01-06 | Had been |
| 1996-04-28 | 1937 song "___It Rain?" |
| 1996-04-21 | Had been |
| 1996-01-21 | Isn't now |
| 1996-01-03 | Used to be |
| 1995-12-16 | Isn't now |
| 1995-11-22 | Existed |
| 1995-10-29 | Had been |
| 1995-03-21 | Lived |
| 1995-01-09 | Had been |
| 1994-08-01 | Lived |
| 1994-06-27 | Once existed |
| 1994-04-10 | Lived |