It comes before beauty

The answer

AGE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AGE answer page.

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AGE

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

• Ripen - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
• Get older - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Mature - used 143 times, most recently in 2026
• Grow older - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
• Candle count - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• Time of your life? - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Era - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Historic time - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Get on in years - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Epoch - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Mellow - used 51 times, most recently in 2015
• Bio stat - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Wisdom bringer - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Census stat - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Vital statistic - used 43 times, most recently in 2022
• Long time - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
• Generation. - used 38 times, most recently in 2015
• Period - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Time of one's life - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• "Act your ___!" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Get on - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Grow old - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Birthday number - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Historical period - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ before beauty" - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Census datum - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Census statistic - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Historic period - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Bio bit - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• It's "just a number" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Lifetime. - used 21 times, most recently in 2014
• Period of history - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Get mellower - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Improve, as wine - used 20 times, most recently in 2018
• Mature, as wine - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• "Act your ___, not your shoe size!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Go gray - used 19 times, most recently in 2019
• Beauty preceder - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Life time? - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Time. - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Biographical datum - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• "Avengers: ___ of Ultron" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Iron or Bronze - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• Become mature - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• ID checker's concern - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of Reason - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• What tree rings indicate - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Golden __ - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Grow up - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Maturity - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Sensitive subject, to some - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Get along in years - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Gray - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• Years - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
• Become ripe - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Bio datum - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Birthday figure - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
• Have another birthday - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Number on a birthday card - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Questionnaire datum - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• What Dorian Gray didn't do - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• 10, for Bart Simpson - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Cause of wrinkles - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Census info - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of Aquarius - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• One's years - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Scotch bottle datum - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Stage of life. - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• The time of one's life? - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• 21 plus. - used 9 times, most recently in 1967
• Become more mature - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Birthday topic - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Edith Wharton's "The ___ of Innocence" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Eligibility factor - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Grow gray - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• History bit - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Little League eligibility criterion - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• The time of your life - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Tree rings indication - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• Add years to one's life - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Carbon-dating estimate - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Get long in the tooth - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Grow long in the tooth - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Improve with time, as wine - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Iron or Stone - used 8 times, most recently in 1991
• Questionnaire info - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Stone or Iron - used 8 times, most recently in 2002
• "The ___ of Innocence" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Time period - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Century. - used 7 times, most recently in 1967
• Kind of limit - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Period of time - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Travel through time? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• What birthday candles represent - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Advance in years - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Allow to ripen - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• ___-appropriate - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Become older - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Bouncer's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Bronze, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Census question - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Cheese sharpener - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Epoch division - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Get mellow - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Get up there - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Go gray, say - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• How old you are - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Long, long time - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Mellow, maybe - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Notable period - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Store to improve - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "That didn't ___ well" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Well-kept secret, for some - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Wharton's "The ___ of Innocence" - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Wine improver - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Winemaking step - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Before - ERE, used 733 times
• Before, poetically - ERE, used 277 times
• Before now - AGO, used 273 times
• Night before - EVE, used 235 times
• Bard's "before" - ERE, used 218 times
• Before, in poetry - ERE, used 194 times

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