No longer are

The answer

WERE

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for WERE

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

• Used to be - used 162 times, most recently in 2026
• Existed - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Way We ___" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• "Wish you __ here" - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• "As you ___" - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
• "__ Off to See the Wizard" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "Those ___ the Days" - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ #1!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
• "What ___ you thinking?" - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• "If I ___ you ..." - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Had been - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ number one!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• As it ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• "Now, where ___ we?" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ off to see..." - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
• Are in the past? - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ in the Money" - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• "___ all in this together" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Common verb - used 9 times, most recently in 1976
• Lived - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• "Now ___ talking!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Milne's "When We ___ Very Young" - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• "Where __ you?" - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• "You __ saying?" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "As you ___" (military command) - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "If I ___ a Carpenter" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "If I ___ a Rich Man" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "If I ___ King." - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
• Once existed - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Was for several people? - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• "Are you ___ out?" - INOR, used 102 times
• No longer here - GONE, used 73 times
• "What are the ___?" - ODDS, used 66 times
• "All ___ are off!" - BETS, used 41 times
• No longer fizzy - FLAT, used 39 times
• No longer new - USED, used 35 times

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