On or about

The answer

CIRCA

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CIRCA answer page.

Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 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.

• INRE (3 uses in xd)
• NEAR (2 uses in xd)
• ASTO (1 uses in xd)
• PREPOSITION (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for CIRCA

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

• About - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Around - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Approximately - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• About, in dates - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Roughly - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Approximately, in dates - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Date qualifier - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• About, date-wise - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• About the time of - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• About, datewise - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Approximately, datewise - 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.

• Up and about - ASTIR, used 274 times
• Scatter about - STREW, used 92 times
• Moving about - ASTIR, used 89 times
• Be wild about - ADORE, used 48 times
• Bring about - CAUSE, used 43 times
• Up and about - AWAKE, used 42 times

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