Before long
The crossword clue "Before long" is answered by ANON, a 4-letter entry. Used 39 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ANON
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANON answer page.
Used 39 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 12 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.
- INAWHILE (5 uses in xd)
- BYANDBY (3 uses in xd)
- PRESENTLY (2 uses in xd)
- SOONENOUGH (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for ANON
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANON, most used first.
- Shortly - used 267 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon - used 233 times, most recently in 2026
- Presently - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
- Auth. unknown - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
- By and by - used 87 times, most recently in 2021
- Erelong - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- In a while - used 64 times, most recently in 2021
- Ever and ___ - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
- Soon, poetically - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- In a bit - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
- Unknown author, for short - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon, to a bard - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Ever's partner - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Later - used 39 times, most recently in 2020
- Shortly, in poems - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Bartlett's abbr. - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
- Prolific auth. - used 31 times, most recently in 2022
- Soon, to Shakespeare - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Author unknown, for short - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- At another time - used 29 times, most recently in 2008
- Quote-book abbr. - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetic adverb - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- In due time - used 25 times, most recently in 2015
- Shortly, to Shakespeare - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon, in verse - used 22 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.
- Long story - SAGA, used 247 times
- It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
- A long time - AGES, used 156 times
- "___ the night before Christmas ..." - TWAS, used 151 times
- Before long - SOON, used 120 times
- Nights before - EVES, used 119 times
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