Soon afterward
The crossword clue "Soon afterward" is answered by THEN, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1958. 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
THEN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THEN answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for THEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by THEN, most used first.
- At that time - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Subsequently - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
- In that case - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
- Not now - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- After that - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Now's partner - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Next - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Consequently - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Afterward - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- In those days - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Now and __; occasionally - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- At that point - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Every now and ___ - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- "What happened next?" - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Afterwards - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- "And ___ what happened?" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- "And ___ there were none" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Accordingly. - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Back in the day - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- "If that's the case ..." - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Now and ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- "What happened next was ..." - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Besides - used 8 times, most recently in 1997
- Later - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "That was ___ ..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- And so - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- "That was ___, this is now" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- "___ again ..." - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- As a consequence - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- In the past - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Next in order. - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Transitional word - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Soon - ANON, used 233 times
- As soon as - ONCE, used 137 times
- Soon, poetically - ANON, used 59 times
- Soon, to a bard - ANON, used 40 times
- Soon, to Shakespeare - ANON, used 31 times
- Soon, in verse - ANON, used 22 times
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