"As ___ Dying"
The crossword clue ""As ___ Dying"" is answered by ILAY, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ILAY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ILAY answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ILAY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ILAY, most used first.
- "Now ___ me down . . . " - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- "Now ___ me down to sleep" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Faulkner's "As ___ Dying" - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- "Now ___ me ..." - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- "As I Lay Dying" father - ANSE, used 26 times
- Addie's husband in "As I Lay Dying" - ANSE, used 8 times
- "___, Brute?" (dying words from Julius Caesar) (2 wds.) - ETTU, used 7 times
- Dying words from Caesar - ETTU, used 6 times
- Kane's dying thought - SLED, used 6 times
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