Earlier, in verse
The crossword clue "Earlier, in verse" is answered by AFORE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AFORE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AFORE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AFORE
Every other clue in this collection answered by AFORE, most used first.
- Ere - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
- Prior to, old-style - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Previously - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Earlier, quaintly - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Prefix for "mentioned" - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Prior to, poetically - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Prefix with mentioned - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Previous to - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Earlier than, to poets - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Earlier - PRIOR, used 74 times
- Japanese verse - HAIKU, used 37 times
- Verse writers - POETS, used 21 times
- Born earlier - OLDER, used 20 times
- Japanese verse form - HAIKU, used 17 times
- Batter of verse - CASEY, used 14 times
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