Yesteryear
The crossword clue "Yesteryear" is answered by PAST, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PAST
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PAST answer page.
Used 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- OLDTIMES (3 uses in xd)
- BYGONEDAYS (1 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- Former life - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- 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.
- Yesteryear - YORE, used 48 times
- Days of __; yesteryear - YORE, used 21 times
- Sound system of yesteryear - HIFI, used 11 times
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