Prior to now

The answer

AGO

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

Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 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.

• BEFORE (1 uses in xd)
• EARLIER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for AGO

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

• In the past - used 1,064 times, most recently in 2026
• Past - used 461 times, most recently in 2026
• Before now - used 273 times, most recently in 2026
• Previously - used 154 times, most recently in 2026
• Gone by - used 133 times, most recently in 2020
• Back in time - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Long, long __ - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Earlier - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Before today - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Back - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• A long time ___ - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Way back when - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Many moons ___ - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Long ___ - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• "A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away ... " - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• "Give it ___!" - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• "Four score and seven years ___ ... " - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• In days past - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• In times past - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• "Long ___ and far away ..." - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Back in the day - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Not long __; recently - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• "Many years ___ ..." - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Give it ___ (try) - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Years ___ (in the past) - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Opposite of hence - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• "A long time ___ in a galaxy ..." - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Have ___ at (try) - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Before the present - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Have ___ at. - used 18 times, most recently in 2012
• "Fourscore and seven years ___ ..." - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• In days of yore - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• In past time - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
• Of yore - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Long __; way back - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Many moons ___ (back in the day) - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Of a previous time - used 15 times, most recently in 2008
• Since - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• In time past - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Long follower - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Years ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• "A long, long time ___ ..." - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• A while ___ - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "... and seven years ___ ..." - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Sixth word of the Gettysburg Address - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Before - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• In history - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• In years past - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "Star Wars" prologue word - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• "That was a long time ___" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "That was ages ___!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Erenow - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Long trailer? - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• Reminiscer's word - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Back when - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Earlier in time - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Hitherto - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• In olden days - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Make ___ of it - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Prior - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Back then - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Earlier than now - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Make ___ of. - used 9 times, most recently in 1968
• Fifth word of the Gettysburg Address - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• In days gone by - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Long ___, in a galaxy far ..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Long __ (way back in time) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Some time ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "A long time ___ in a galaxy far . . ." - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• "All Those Years ___" (George Harrison hit) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "All Those Years ___" (George Harrison song) - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Before this moment - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• George Harrison's "All Those Years ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• In bygone days - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Ages ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• In olden times - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• It may appear after a long time - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• "It was 20 years ___ today ..." - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Kingsley novel "Two Years ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Long ___ (way back when) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "Million Years ___" (Adele song) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Once upon a time - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Prior to the present - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Prior to today - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• "Now I get it!" - AHA, used 182 times
• Prior to - ERE, used 173 times
• Up to now - YET, used 116 times
• "Now ___ seen everything!" - IVE, used 99 times
• "___ now or never!" - ITS, used 81 times
• "And now, without further ___ ..." - ADO, used 80 times

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