Once in a blue ___

The answer

MOON

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

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MOON

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

• Night light - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Earth orbiter - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Satellite - used 22 times, most recently in 2010
• Apollo 11 destination - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Natural satellite - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Earth circler - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "Goodnight ___" (classic bedtime book) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Earth's natural satellite - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Cow's hurdle, in rhyme - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• 1969 landing site - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Earth's satellite - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "One giant leap for mankind" site - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Apollo destination - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Armstrong's destination - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Gaze dreamily - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Night sight - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Space race goal - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Once more - ANEW, used 292 times
• "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
• Thailand, once - SIAM, used 192 times
• Once, once - ERST, used 177 times
• Blue-pencil - EDIT, used 151 times
• Blue hue - AQUA, used 135 times

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