| Wagnerian contralto role | 24 |
| Earth goddess in opera | 22 |
| "Rheingold" goddess | 29 |
| "Nibelung" goddess | 28 |
| Third planet from die Sonne | 27 |
| Solid ground, in Stuttgart | 26 |
| Second planet past Merkur | 25 |
| Second planet past Mercur | 25 |
| Our planet, to a German | 23 |
| Our planet, to a Berliner | 25 |
| Home base, to von Braun | 23 |
| George Clooney played one | 25 |
| Bard's "before" | 29 |
| Palindromic preposition | 23 |
| Poet's "before" | 29 |
| Bard's preposition | 22 |
| Two-way poetic preposition | 26 |
| Palindromic conjunction | 23 |
| Literary "before" | 27 |
| Middle of a famous palindrome | 29 |
| Old-fashioned preposition | 25 |
| Versifier's preposition | 27 |
| Poetic "before" | 25 |
| Before, to Shakespeare | 22 |
| Before, in an old syllable | 26 |
| Afore's poetic cousin | 25 |
| "Look ___ ye leap" | 28 |
| It may come before long | 23 |
| Before, to a sonneteer | 22 |
| Sooner than, in poetry | 22 |
| Shakespearean preposition | 25 |
| Rather than, in poetry | 22 |
| Prepositional palindrome | 24 |
| Part of a famous palindrome | 27 |
| Obsolete "before" | 27 |
| It may appear before long | 25 |
| Homophone for "air" | 29 |
| Before, palindromically | 23 |
| "___ I saw Elba" | 26 |
| You may see it before long | 26 |
| Reversible preposition | 22 |
| Quaint "before" | 25 |
| Old long introduction? | 22 |
| Odist's preposition | 23 |
| Lyrical "before" | 26 |
| Before, in palindromes | 22 |
| Before, a long time ago | 23 |
| Vague time frame indicator | 26 |
| Sooner than, to Spenser | 23 |
| Sooner than, to a bard | 22 |
| Reversible "before" | 29 |
| Prior's "prior" | 29 |
| Preposition used by bards | 25 |
| Preposition in old poetry | 25 |
| Poetic "previously" | 29 |
| Poet's palindrome word | 26 |
| Palindromic 'before' | 28 |
| Old poetic conjunction | 22 |
| Obsolescent preposition | 23 |
| It may come before long? | 24 |
| It can appear before long | 25 |
| I - I palindromic center | 24 |
| Famous palindrome center | 24 |
| Cockney's location? | 23 |
| Center of a famous palindrome | 29 |
| Center of a famed palindrome | 28 |
| Byronic "before" | 26 |
| Byronian "before" | 27 |
| Before, to Robert Burns | 23 |
| Before, in one syllable | 23 |
| Before, in bygone times | 23 |
| "Before" of yore | 26 |
| "Able was I ___..." | 29 |
| You might see it before long? | 29 |
| Word before long or now | 23 |
| This may appear before long | 27 |
| Syllable-saving preposition | 27 |
| Spanish letter two after pe | 27 |
| Spanish letter after cu | 23 |
| Sooner than, to Shakespeare | 27 |
| Sooner than, to a sonneteer | 27 |
| Sooner than, poetically | 23 |
| Sooner than in poetry | 22 |
| Roll-call reply in Soho | 23 |
| Rather than, to Hamlet | 22 |
| Rather than, to Cowper | 22 |
| Rather than, poetically | 23 |
| Prior to, in old times | 22 |
| Previously, to Browning | 23 |
| Previously, in lit crit | 23 |
| Previously used in poetry | 25 |
| Present, Cockney-style | 22 |
| Preposition before now | 22 |
| Poetic “previously” | 27 |
| Poetic "prior" | 24 |
| Poet's previous to | 22 |
| Poet's 'before' | 27 |
| Palindrome in many a stanza | 27 |
| Palindrome in a palindrome | 26 |
| Opposite of "after" | 29 |