Quite a distance

The answer

AFAR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AFAR answer page.

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• MILES (4 uses in xd)
• FAR (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for AFAR

Every other clue in this collection answered by AFAR, most used first.

• At a distance - used 294 times, most recently in 2026
• Way off - used 229 times, most recently in 2026
• Miles away - used 210 times, most recently in 2026
• In the distance - used 181 times, most recently in 2026
• Off in the distance - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
• From a distance - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
• Way out there - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
• Miles off - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• Worship from ___ - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• Distant - used 93 times, most recently in 2025
• A long way off - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Way, way off - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Yonder - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Somewhere out there - used 50 times, most recently in 2015
• ___ cry - used 38 times, most recently in 2021
• A ways away - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• A great distance - used 35 times, most recently in 2021
• Many miles away - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Off yonder - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Way over yonder - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Over yonder - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Way off yonder - used 31 times, most recently in 2019
• At a great distance - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Way out yonder - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Remote. - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Many miles off - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Out yonder - used 23 times, most recently in 2014
• Way off in the distance - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Distantly - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• At some distance - used 19 times, most recently in 2016
• Not nearby - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Churchill's "___ Country" - used 18 times, most recently in 2015
• Way out - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• From a great distance - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "It's ___ cry from ..." - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
• Beyond the horizon - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Nowhere near - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• On the horizon - used 16 times, most recently in 2000
• Admire from ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Not close - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Not near - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Come from ___ - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Not even close - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Way over there - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• A distant point - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Away off. - used 11 times, most recently in 1977
• "Bearing gifts we traverse ___" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• To a distance - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• A long way away - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Quite a distance off - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Way in the distance - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• A ways off - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Love from ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Out there - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Place to worship from - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Quite a ways away - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Way yonder - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Long way off - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Off - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Well out of range - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Where some worship from - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• A way away - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• At some remove - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Not at hand - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Remote place to "worship from" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Remotely - used 7 times, most recently in 1995
• Winston Churchill's "___ Country" - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• A good way off - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• From ___ (at a distance) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• From where some worship? - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Light years away - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Not proximately - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Out of range - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Quite some distance off - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Some distance away - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• To distant places - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Whence the lovelorn worship - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Where some people worship from - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• Not quite closed - AJAR, used 149 times
• Not quite shut - AJAR, used 110 times
• Short distance - STEP, used 100 times
• Quite a few - MANY, used 64 times
• Quite a while - AGES, used 60 times
• Quite uncommon - RARE, used 56 times

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