Handed-down history

The answer

LORE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LORE answer page.

Used 23 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LORE

Every other clue in this collection answered by LORE, most used first.

• Knowledge - used 112 times, most recently in 2023
• Traditional knowledge - used 111 times, most recently in 2025
• Traditional tales - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Folk wisdom - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Learning - used 43 times, most recently in 2005
• Erudition - used 38 times, most recently in 2005
• Folk tales - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Folk history - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Body of knowledge - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Oral history - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• Handed-down tales - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• The stuff of legends - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Passed-down stories - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Folk stories - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Tradition - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Passed-down tales - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Traditional wisdom - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Folk knowledge - used 21 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.

• Touched down - ALIT, used 243 times
• Pack down - TAMP, used 216 times
• Came down - ALIT, used 186 times
• Muse of history - CLIO, used 147 times
• Turn down - DENY, used 119 times
• Came down to earth - ALIT, used 115 times

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