Days of old

The answer

YORE

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

Used 55 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 17 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.

• PAST (6 uses in xd)
• IDES (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for YORE

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

• Olden days - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Days gone by - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Time long past - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Long ago - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Days of ___ - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Time past - used 51 times, most recently in 2023
• Yesteryear - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Olden times - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Bygone times - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Knight time? - used 33 times, most recently in 2017
• Bygone days - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Auld lang syne - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Days of __; yesteryear - used 21 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.

• Old oath - EGAD, used 105 times
• "___ Old Cowhand" - IMAN, used 93 times
• Old Italian money - LIRA, used 87 times
• Old Russian ruler - TSAR, used 84 times
• Old salts - TARS, used 69 times
• Old Testament book - AMOS, used 69 times

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