| Before such time | 16 |
| Before starting a tennis game? | 30 |
| Before sounding off? | 20 |
| Before sleep or state | 21 |
| Before skirt or kin | 19 |
| Before sigma | 12 |
| Before Sept. | 12 |
| Before seis | 11 |
| Before secundus | 15 |
| Before Sat. | 11 |
| Before rod; after battering | 27 |
| Before riches sometimes | 24 |
| Before retitling: Abbr. | 23 |
| Before quattro | 14 |
| Before Polk | 11 |
| Before pod or color | 19 |
| Before pod or angle | 19 |
| Before plea | 11 |
| Before phones, was there ...? | 29 |
| Before partner | 14 |
| Before one's return? | 24 |
| Before one's big opening? | 29 |
| Before omicrons | 15 |
| Before omega | 12 |
| Before of yore | 14 |
| Before of the past | 18 |
| Before Oedipus, who could answer the riddle of the Sphinx | 57 |
| Before Oct. | 11 |
| Before nun | 10 |
| Before now, in olden days | 25 |
| Before now, before now | 22 |
| Before now | 10 |
| Before novem | 12 |
| Before Nov. | 11 |
| Before noon, poetically | 23 |
| Before noon, in England | 23 |
| Before nights | 13 |
| Before Muhammad Ali? | 20 |
| Before much longer, poetically | 30 |
| Before movies, were there ...? | 30 |
| Before moon and dew | 19 |
| Before midnight tonight | 23 |
| Before midnight | 15 |
| Before midi | 11 |
| Before middle sch. | 18 |
| Before meeny | 12 |
| Before marriage | 15 |
| Before markdown: Abbr. | 22 |
| Before making the cut? | 22 |
| Before long, to the Bard | 24 |
| Before long, to Shakespeare | 27 |
| Before long, poetically | 23 |
| Before long, long before now | 28 |
| Before long, in a poem | 22 |
| Before long, after "in" | 33 |
| Before long | 11 |
| Before line and sinker | 22 |
| Before lateral or sonant | 24 |
| Before la-la | 12 |
| Before la | 9 |
| Before king or mode | 19 |
| Before kickoff | 14 |
| Before juin | 11 |
| Before John | 11 |
| Before jets, was there ...? | 27 |
| Before J.H.S. | 13 |
| Before J.F.K. | 13 |
| Before IX | 9 |
| Before it's needed | 22 |
| Before indicator | 16 |
| Before houses were weatherproofed? | 34 |
| Before hostilities | 18 |
| Before hoe or down | 18 |
| Before haw | 10 |
| Before happy or stick | 21 |
| Before H.S.T. | 13 |
| Before graph or scope | 21 |
| Before gram or cast | 19 |
| Before government cuts | 22 |
| Before going under the knife | 28 |
| Before gee: pl. | 15 |
| Before Fri. | 11 |
| Before foot or belly | 20 |
| Before fo fum | 13 |
| Before febrero | 14 |
| Before ewes? | 12 |
| Before due | 10 |
| Before drei | 11 |
| Before down | 11 |
| Before dinner | 13 |
| Before deductions | 17 |
| Before daybreak | 15 |
| Before dawn, say | 16 |
| Before dawn, perhaps | 20 |
| Before dawn | 11 |
| Before D.D.E. | 13 |
| Before curfew | 13 |
| Before conflicts begin? | 23 |
| Before computers, were there ...? | 34 |
| Before coming out? | 18 |