Antiquity

The answer

ELD

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

Used 20 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 6 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.

• YORE (11 uses in xd)
• OLDNESS (9 uses in xd)
• RELIC (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ELD

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

• Days of yore - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Antiquity, in antiquity - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Yore - used 17 times, most recently in 2008
• Antiquity, once - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Days of yore, in days of yore - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
• Antiquity: Archaic. - used 10 times, most recently in 1967
• The past, in the past - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Ancient times, in ancient times - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Antiquity: Poet. - used 7 times, most recently in 1965
• Olden times, in olden times - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Ragtime auth. - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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
• Greek vowel - ETA, used 549 times
• Superlative suffix - EST, used 521 times
• Greek letter - ETA, used 512 times
• Mess up - ERR, used 508 times
• Work unit - ERG, used 488 times

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