"... ___ he drove out of sight"

The answer

ERE

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

Used 114 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 18 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 pilot 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
• 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

Related clues

Pilot clues 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.

• ___ out a living - EKE, used 426 times
• Conk out - DIE, used 239 times
• Squeeze (out) - EKE, used 214 times
• Rent out - LET, used 200 times
• Just out - NEW, used 146 times
• Scratch (out) - EKE, used 125 times

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