Metronome setting

The answer

TEMPO

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TEMPO answer page.

Used 17 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 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.

• PACE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for TEMPO

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

• Musical pace - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Pace - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Beat - used 43 times, most recently in 2023
• Musical speed - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Conductor's concern - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Rhythm - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Musical beat - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Score speed - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Rate of activity. - used 8 times, most recently in 1986
• Adagio or allegro - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Metronome measure - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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• "M*A*S*H" setting - KOREA, used 62 times
• "Gladiator" setting - ARENA, used 44 times
• Fire-setting crime - ARSON, used 42 times

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