Backward-looking
The crossword clue "Backward-looking" is answered by RETRO, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RETRO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RETRO answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RETRO
Every other clue in this collection answered by RETRO, most used first.
- Back in style - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of rocket - used 47 times, most recently in 2023
- Stylishly quaint - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Back in - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Fashionably nostalgic - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Fashionably dated - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
- So out it's in - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Fashionably old-fashioned - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Back in fashion - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- In again - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Old, but new again - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Vintage - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Cool again - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Nostalgic style - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Type of rocket - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
- Nostalgically trendy - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Back-in-style fashion - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Backward: Prefix - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Chic again - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Evoking the past - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- In vogue again - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Old-fashioned - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Stylish again - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Nostalgically fashionable - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Old-school - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Certain rocket engine - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Fashionable once again - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Hip again - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Nostalgic fashion - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- So old it's new again - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- "Here's looking ___, kid" - ATYOU, used 13 times
- Looking at - EYING, used 13 times
- "___ looking at you, kid" - HERES, used 11 times
- "Here's looking ___!" - ATYOU, used 10 times
- Anemic-looking - ASHEN, used 9 times
- Cuddly-looking marsupial - KOALA, used 9 times
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