Long period
The crossword clue "Long period" is answered by AEON, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AEON
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AEON answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for AEON
Every other clue in this collection answered by AEON, most used first.
- Long, long time - used 71 times, most recently in 2025
- Many millennia - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Very long time - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Long time - used 33 times, most recently in 2018
- Ages and ages - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Eternity. - used 17 times, most recently in 2004
- "___ Flux" (Charlize Theron film) - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ Flux" (Charlize Theron movie) - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Age - used 12 times, most recently in 2004
- A billion years - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- "___ Flux" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Near-eternity - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- A thousand ages. - used 9 times, most recently in 1967
- Really long time - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- A long, long time - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Forever and a day - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Long time, in London - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Big stretch - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Long, long time (Var.) - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- 2005 role for Charlize - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- A long time - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Almost eternity - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Extremely long time - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- "___ Flux" (2005 Charlize Theron movie) - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Seemingly forever - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Long story - SAGA, used 247 times
- It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
- A long time - AGES, used 156 times
- Before long - SOON, used 120 times
- Long skirt - MAXI, used 117 times
- "So long!" - TATA, used 114 times
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