| Ahead of, in verse | 18 |
| "We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Hamlet | 68 |
| "Prior to," poetically | 32 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove ..." | 53 |
| "Before" to poets of old | 34 |
| "... __ darkness comes on": Bartram | 45 |
| "___ I saw Elba" | 26 |
| "___ he drove out of sight ..." | 41 |
| You may see it before long | 26 |
| Well-known palindrome's middle | 34 |
| Up 'til | 11 |
| To be abroad | 12 |
| Reversible preposition | 22 |
| Reference center? | 17 |
| Quaint "before" | 25 |
| Prior's prior | 17 |
| Prior, to Poe | 13 |
| Prior to, in rhyme | 18 |
| Previously used by Shakespeare? | 31 |
| Present, in Soho | 16 |
| Poet's ''before'' | 37 |
| Old long introduction? | 22 |
| Odist's preposition | 23 |
| Odist's "before" | 30 |
| Ode preposition | 15 |
| Lyrical "before" | 26 |
| Long lead-in | 12 |
| Center of a well-known palindrome | 33 |
| Browning's "before" | 33 |
| Before, to Donne | 16 |
| Before, old-style | 17 |
| Before, in verses | 17 |
| Before, in palindromes | 22 |
| Before, in ballades | 19 |
| Before, in a syllable | 21 |
| Before, for poets | 17 |
| Before, earlier | 15 |
| Before, before now | 18 |
| Before, a long time ago | 23 |
| Before to poets | 16 |
| Before to Burns | 16 |
| Archaic preposition | 19 |
| Anteceding | 10 |
| Air homophone | 13 |
| "Now" or "long" preceder | 44 |
| "Maid of Athens, ___ we part": Byron | 46 |
| "Maid of Athens, ___ we part . . . " | 46 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he ..." | 47 |
| "Blood hath been shed ___ now": Macbeth | 49 |
| "... ___ he rode out of sight ..." | 44 |
| ". . . ___ I saw Elba" | 32 |
| ". . . ___ he rode out of sight" | 42 |
| ". . . ___ he drove out of sight" | 43 |
| "___ pales in Heaven the morning star": Lowell | 56 |
| ''Before'' of yore | 34 |
| Word with long or now | 21 |
| Word before while | 17 |
| Versifier's ''before'' | 42 |
| Vague time frame indicator | 26 |
| Sooner than, to Spenser | 23 |
| Sooner than, to a bard | 22 |
| Sonneteer's ''before'' | 42 |
| Shortly before? | 15 |
| Reversible "before" | 29 |
| Prior's "prior" | 29 |
| Prior, in poesy | 15 |
| Prior to, to poets | 18 |
| Previously, in poems | 20 |
| Previous to, in verse | 21 |
| Preposition with multiple homonyms | 34 |
| Preposition used by bards | 25 |
| Preposition in old poetry | 25 |
| Preposition before "now" | 34 |
| Preceding, poetically | 21 |
| Popular palindrome | 18 |
| Poetic, palindromic preposition | 31 |
| Poetic "previously" | 29 |
| Poet's palindrome word | 26 |
| Poet's "prior to" | 31 |
| Palindromic preposition of old | 30 |
| Palindromic 'before' | 28 |
| Palindrome middle | 17 |
| Old poetic conjunction | 22 |
| Obsolescent preposition | 23 |
| Middle of a well-known palindrome | 33 |
| Long or now preceder | 20 |
| Long intro | 10 |
| Long beginning | 14 |
| Keats's "before" | 30 |
| James Whitcomb Riley's "___ I Went Mad" | 53 |
| It may come before long? | 24 |
| It comes before "long" | 32 |
| It can appear before long | 25 |
| I - I palindromic center | 24 |
| Haiku preposition | 17 |
| Formerly, to a poet | 19 |
| Famous palindrome center | 24 |
| Cockney's location? | 23 |
| Cockney's ''present'' | 41 |
| Center of a famous palindrome | 29 |