"Measure twice, cut ___"
The crossword clue ""Measure twice, cut ___"" is answered by ONCE, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ONCE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONCE answer page.
Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ONCE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONCE, most used first.
- Formerly - used 402 times, most recently in 2026
- A single time - used 296 times, most recently in 2026
- In the past - used 192 times, most recently in 2026
- "__ upon a time..." - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
- As soon as - used 137 times, most recently in 2026
- Back in the day - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- Way back when - used 68 times, most recently in 2025
- Fairy tale starter - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Fairy tale opener - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Long ago - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
- Fairy tale beginning - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ in a blue moon - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Fairy tale start - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- First word of "The Raven" - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Story starter - used 42 times, most recently in 2021
- Never again? - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Previously - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Some time ago - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Without repetition - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ and for all - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Whenever. - used 34 times, most recently in 2018
- Years ago - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- In the old days - used 32 times, most recently in 2021
- "__ in Love with Amy" - used 29 times, most recently in 2022
- Quondam. - used 27 times, most recently in 1993
- Almost never - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- All at __; suddenly - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Erstwhile - used 24 times, most recently in 2015
- Just a single time - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Not repeatedly - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ bitten..." - used 22 times, most recently in 2018
- Grimm beginning - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
- ___ in a lifetime - used 22 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.
- Land measure - ACRE, used 276 times
- Narrow cut - SLIT, used 186 times
- Deep cut - GASH, used 164 times
- Farmland measure - ACRE, used 125 times
- Hebrew measure - OMER, used 108 times
- Pork cut - LOIN, used 107 times
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