Former life

The answer

PAST

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PAST

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

• History - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Gone by - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Bygone days - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
• Days gone by - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Bygone - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Time gone by - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• It may be checkered - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Years gone by - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Over - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• Over and done with - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Beyond - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Days of yore - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Historian's concern - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Yesteryear - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Blast from the ___ - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Historian's focus - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of tense - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Ago - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Gone - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Future's opposite - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Historian's study - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• In the __ (long ago) - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• One of the tenses - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Time machine's destination - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• After the hour - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Former - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• It's history - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Not present or future - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Previous - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "Back to the Future" destination - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Bygone time - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Later than - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Tense. - used 8 times, most recently in 1981
• Ancient history - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Bygone period - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Over and done - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Personal history - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Proust's "Remembrance of Things ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Blast from the __ (song oldie) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Days of old - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Historian's field - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Historian's subject - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• It's behind you - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Time-travel destination - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Time traveler's destination - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• We all have one - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• Former spouses - EXES, used 132 times
• Life of Riley - EASE, used 109 times
• Larger-than-life - EPIC, used 101 times
• Former Russian ruler - TSAR, used 78 times
• Former mates - EXES, used 76 times
• Former Iranian ruler - SHAH, used 75 times

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