Old characters
The crossword clue "Old characters" is answered by RUNES, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RUNES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUNES answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RUNES
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUNES, most used first.
- Ancient letters - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Ancient characters - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Old letters - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Old anesthetic - ETHER, used 156 times
- Old-womanish - ANILE, used 155 times
- Old saying - ADAGE, used 127 times
- Old hat - PASSE, used 100 times
- Old enough - OFAGE, used 97 times
- "Old MacDonald" refrain - EIEIO, used 97 times
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