| Poet's ''before'' | 37 |
| Center of a well-known palindrome | 33 |
| Browning's "before" | 33 |
| "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 |
| ''Before'' of yore | 34 |
| Versifier's ''before'' | 42 |
| Sonneteer's ''before'' | 42 |
| Preposition with multiple homonyms | 34 |
| Preposition before "now" | 34 |
| Middle of a well-known palindrome | 33 |
| It comes before "long" | 32 |
| Cockney's ''present'' | 41 |
| Blake's ''before'' | 38 |
| Before, either way you look at it | 33 |
| Before, before we used "before" | 41 |
| An old syllable meaning "before" | 42 |
| "Night Before Christmas" preposition | 46 |
| "Able was I ___ I saw . . ." | 38 |
| "Able was I ___ I ..." | 32 |
| "Able was I ___ . . ." | 32 |
| "... was I ___ I saw ..." | 35 |
| "... ___ my Romeo comes" | 34 |
| "... ___ he rode out of sight" | 40 |
| "... __ he drove out of sight ..." | 44 |
| ". . . ___ my Romeo comes?" | 37 |
| ". . . __ he drove out of sight" | 42 |
| "___ Time transfigured me": Yeats | 43 |
| "___ he drove out of sight..." | 40 |
| ''Able was I ___ I saw Elba'' | 45 |
| You might have seen it before now | 33 |
| Word between I's in a noted palindrome | 42 |
| With "long," this means soon | 38 |
| What's been written before now? | 35 |
| Syllable-saving word for a haiku writer | 39 |
| Shelley's oft-used preposition | 34 |
| Riley's "_____ I Went Mad" | 40 |
| Prior to, in "The Prioress's Tale" | 48 |
| Previously, in a 19th century literature class | 46 |
| Preposition used by Clement Moore | 33 |
| Preposition that may come before long | 37 |
| Preposition often seen in crosswords | 36 |
| Palindromist's "before" | 37 |
| Palindromic poet's preposition | 34 |
| Outmoded preposition meaning "before" | 47 |
| Old start for "now" or "long" | 49 |
| Old intro to "long" or "now" | 48 |
| Middle of the "Able... Elba" palindrome | 49 |
| Middle of a palindrome re Napoleon | 34 |
| Lead-in for "long" or "now" | 47 |
| It's between I's in a palidrome | 39 |
| It sounds like ''air'' | 38 |
| It may come before "long" | 35 |
| Homophone for ''air'' | 37 |
| Cockney's "in this place" | 39 |
| Center word of a famed palindrome | 33 |
| Browning's ''before'' | 41 |
| "You always end ___ you begin": Shak. | 47 |
| "We shun it ___ it comes": Dickinson | 46 |
| "Prior to," palindromically | 37 |
| "Maid of Athens, __ we part ...": Byron | 49 |
| "Look ___ ye leap": Heywood | 37 |
| "Drink deep ___ you depart" (Hamlet) | 46 |
| "Catch, __ she change . . ." Pope | 43 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ ..." | 44 |
| "Before" of long before | 33 |
| "Before" in only one syllable | 39 |
| "...was I --- I saw ..." | 34 |
| "...___ he rode out of sight..." | 42 |
| "...___ he drove out of sight..." | 43 |
| "... was I ___ I saw Elba" | 36 |
| "... ___ I again behold my Romeo!" | 44 |
| ". ___ he drove out of sight ." | 41 |
| "___ yet we loose the legions": Kipling | 49 |
| "___ upon my bed I lay me": Longfellow | 48 |
| "___ thy fair light had fled": Shelley | 48 |
| "___ thou and peace may meet": Shelley | 48 |
| "___ the first cock crow" (Shak.) | 43 |
| "___ I was old!": Coleridge | 37 |
| "___ half my days . . . ": Milton | 43 |
| " ... __ he drove out of sight ... " | 46 |
| " . . . was I ___ I saw . . . " | 41 |
| " . . . ___ I will leave her" | 39 |
| " . . . ___ he drove out of sight" | 44 |
| ''Look ___ ye leap'' | 36 |
| ''Before,'' in literature | 41 |
| ''Able was I ___ ...'' | 38 |
| ''Able was I ___ . . .'' | 40 |
| ''... ___ I saw Elba'' | 38 |
| ''... ___ he drove out of sight'' | 49 |
| ''___ he drove out of sight ...'' | 49 |
| '... -- he drove out of sight ...' | 42 |
| Like a Siberian Husky's ears | 32 |