In the distance
The crossword clue "In the distance" is answered by YON, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YON
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YON answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for YON
Every other clue in this collection answered by YON, most used first.
- Hither's partner - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Thither - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Hither and ___ - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
- Over there - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
- Over there, poetically - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Over there, quaintly - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Over there, old-style - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Hither partner - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Not hither - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Hither's opposite - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Thataway - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Poetic direction - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- "Silent Night" adjective - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Over there: Poet. - used 8 times, most recently in 1966
- Way over there - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- O'er there - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- "Round __ virgin ... " - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Way over there, quaintly - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
- In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
- Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
- "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
- In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times
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