Poetic palindrome
The crossword clue "Poetic palindrome" is answered by ERE, a 3-letter entry. Used 57 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 17 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 57 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 17 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
- Prior to, to Prior - used 51 times, most recently in 2023
- Before, to the Bard - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
- "Able was I ___ I saw Elba" - used 48 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.
- Poetic tribute - ODE, used 212 times
- Poetic dusk - EEN, used 80 times
- Poetic pugilist - ALI, used 62 times
- Poetic sphere - ORB, used 57 times
- Poetic form - ODE, used 48 times
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