"That was ___, this is now"

The answer

THEN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THEN answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 6 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
• Soon afterward - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• "That was ___ ..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• And so - 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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• In that case - IFSO, used 231 times
• "___ Well That Ends Well" - ALLS, used 158 times
• "That makes sense" - ISEE, used 132 times
• "___ there, done that" - BEEN, used 123 times
• In this place - HERE, used 118 times

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