Earlier, quaintly
The crossword clue "Earlier, quaintly" is answered by AFORE, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 1 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 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 1 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
- 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, in verse - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- 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
- Born earlier - OLDER, used 20 times
- Earlier in time - PRIOR, used 9 times
- Of earlier vintage - OLDER, used 8 times
- Born earlier - ELDER, used 6 times
- Earlier-born - ELDER, used 6 times
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