Before __ (soon)
The crossword clue "Before __ (soon)" is answered by LONG, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LONG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LONG answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LONG
Every other clue in this collection answered by LONG, most used first.
- Protracted - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
- Yearn - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Time-consuming - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Drawn-out - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Extended - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Yearn (for) - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Far-reaching. - used 17 times, most recently in 1996
- Pine (for) - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Pine - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Kind of division - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Lasting quite a while - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Taking quite a while - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- "__ time, no see" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Overextended - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Suit specification - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Tedious. - used 7 times, most recently in 1986
- Dragged out - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Like a hippie's hair - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Pants specification - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Suit size designation - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Soon - ANON, used 233 times
- "___ the night before Christmas ..." - TWAS, used 151 times
- As soon as - ONCE, used 137 times
- Before long - SOON, used 120 times
- Nights before - EVES, used 119 times
- "___ the night before ..." - TWAS, used 100 times
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