"Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
The crossword clue ""Able was I ___ I saw Elba"" is answered by ERE, a 3-letter entry. Used 48 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ERE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERE answer page.
Used 48 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ERE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ERE, most used first.
- Before - used 733 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, poetically - used 277 times, most recently in 2026
- Afore - used 244 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic preposition - used 230 times, most recently in 2026
- Bard's "before" - used 218 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, in poetry - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
- Prior to - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, in verse - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, in poems - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
- "... ___ he drove out of sight" - used 114 times, most recently in 2025
- Palindromic preposition - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, to Byron - used 108 times, most recently in 2025
- Before, to bards - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, of yore - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, before - used 97 times, most recently in 2025
- Poet's "before" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic "before" - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Poet's preposition - used 75 times, most recently in 2023
- Before, to a bard - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Prior to, poetically - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- "... ___ I saw Elba" - used 64 times, most recently in 2019
- Sooner than. - used 64 times, most recently in 2022
- Before, once - used 62 times, most recently in 2024
- Poetic palindrome - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Prior to, to Prior - used 51 times, most recently in 2023
- Before, to the Bard - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- "-- was saying ..." - ASI, used 395 times
- "How was ___ know?" - ITO, used 164 times
- Was ahead - LED, used 137 times
- Is able to - CAN, used 96 times
- Was introduced to - MET, used 86 times
- Was in front - LED, used 73 times
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