| 1 |
| Fore |
| Till |
| Up to |
| Prior |
| Until |
| Afore |
| Before |
| Up 'til |
| Hitherto |
| Up until |
| Preceding |
| Aforetime |
| Previously |
| Heretofore |
| Prior (to) |
| Long start |
| Afore" kin |
| Anteceding |
| Long intro |
| Rather than |
| Sooner than |
| Before, old |
| Cockney cry |
| Old "before |
| Prior, once |
| Bard's word |
| Poetic ever |
| Previous to |
| Poetic word |
| Bard's "soon |
| Earlier than |
| Long opening |
| Poetic prior |
| Poets'before |
| Prior, prior |
| To be abroad |
| Before, once |
| Not following |
| Poetic adverb |
| Before, poet. |
| Long lead-in? |
| Long preceder |
| Bardic before |
| Prior, to Poe |
| In advance of |
| Air" homophone |
| Before" of old |
| Ahead of, once |
| Before, poshly |
| Before,of yore |
| Lead-in to now |
| Lyrical before |
| Odist's before |
| Poet’s word. |
| Prior to Prior |
| Up to, in odes |
| Way-old before |
| Yore's "before |
| Afore's cousin |
| Keats' "before |
| Long beginning |
| Burns' "before |
| Prior's "prior |
| Frost's before |
| Before, to Poe |
| Quaint "before |
| Before, before |
| Before, of yore |
| Palindrome word |
| ___ long (soon) |
| Heir" homophone |
| Archaic "before |
| Bard's 'before' |
| Before in here? |
| Before, way-old |
| Burns's "before |
| Formerly before |
| Homonym for air |
| Old conjunction |
| Poetic 'before' |
| Prior, in poems |
| Word before now |
| Keats's "before |
| Poet's 'before' |
| Prior, in poesy |
| Shortly before? |
| Before, earlier |
| Beret's center? |
| Lead-in to long |
| Ode preposition |
| Before, in odes |
| Old preposition |
| Prior, to poets |
| To be, to Bizet |
| Earlier, earlier |
| Before, to Byron |
| Look __ you leap |
| Ancestor of "pre |
| Before in poesy |
| Before in "there |
| Before to Yeats |
| Before, quaintly |
| Before, way back |
| Before. (poetic) |
| Byron's 'before' |
| Byronic 'before' |
| Earlier, in 1550 |
| Hamlet's "before |
| Lead-in for long |
| Pre-, poetically |
| Prior to, to Poe |
| Prior, in poetry |
| Prior, old-style |
| Sooner, to bards |
| Before, to Frost |
| Before, to Prior |
| Byronian "before |
| Shelley's before |
| Before to Burns |
| Before to poets |
| Before, to Blake |
| Before, to Donne |
| Sooner, in poems |
| Sonneteer's word |
| Before, formerly |
| Poet's "prior to |
| Sooner, in verse |
| Ever, poetically |
| Obsolete "before |
| Bard's "prior to |
| Before, in rhyme |
| Before, long ago |
| Palindromic word |
| Before, to Keats |
| Before, to bards |
| Before, in poems |
| Before, in verse |
| Earlier, in poems |
| Before, old-style |
| Before, to a bard |
| Bard's palindrome |
| Before to Emerson |
| Before, to Birney |
| Byron preposition |
| Cockney's present |
| Homophone for Ayr |
| Opposite of after |
| Prior to, in odes |
| Prior's "prior to |
| Sooner, in poetry |
| Sovereign center? |
| Up to, for a poet |
| Before, in an ode |
| Before, to Bryant |
| Haiku preposition |
| Old-style "before |
| Palindrome middle |
| Poetic 'prior to' |
| Sooner, to a bard |
| Sooner, to a poet |
| Word before while |
| Before, in a poem |
| Before, in verses |
| Before, to Hamlet |
| Before, for poets |
| Reference center? |
| Palindrome center |
| Poet's palindrome |
| Before, to a poet |
| Poetic palindrome |
| Before, in poetry |
| Poetic contraction |
| Poetic conjunction |
| Poet's preposition |
| Poetic preposition |
| Prior to, in poems |
| Prior to, in verse |
| Prior to, to Prior |
| Able was I ___ ... |
| Before, poetically |
| Present!," in Soho |
| Ahead of, in poems |
| Bardic preposition |
| Before, in hymnody |
| Before, previously |
| Before, to Chaucer |
| Before, to Marlowe |
| Dickinson's sooner |
| Earlier, in a poem |
| Heir's sound-alike |
| Homophone for Aire |
| Homophone for Eire |
| Homophone of "heir |
| Keats' preposition |
| Long start, of old |
| Long starter, once |
| Outer ears center? |
| Poet's "previously |
| Poet's previous to |
| Preceding, in odes |
| Prior to, in poesy |
| Prior to, long ago |
| Prior, to Browning |
| Sooner, poetically |
| Before, old school |
| Before, to and fro |
| Blake's ''before'' |
| Popular palindrome |
| Prior to, to poets |
| Reversible "before |
| Before, before now |
| Before, to Kipling |
| Prior to, to bards |
| Ahead of, in verse |
| Long introduction? |
| Prior to, in rhyme |
| Before, for a bard |
| Before, either way |
| Before, to Spenser |
| Before of the past |
| Before, bard-style |
| Quaint preposition |
| Before, in ballads |
| Before, in sonnets |
| Sonnet preposition |
| Before, to Shelley |
| Bard's preposition |
| Prior to, in poetry |
| Ahead of, in poetry |
| Ahead of, to a bard |
| Archaic conjunction |
| Before to Browning |
| Before, to Beaumont |
| Before, to Suckling |
| Before, verse style |
| Kipling preposition |
| Long lead-in of old |
| Old-style "prior to |
| Out front, long ago |
| Poetic "previous to |
| Poetric contraction |
| Preceding, in verse |
| Preposition in odes |
| Previously, way old |
| Prior to, in an ode |
| Up until, in poetry |
| Ahead of, old-style |
| Before, archaically |
| Before, in the past |
| Before, to Tennyson |
| Cockney's location? |
| Homophone for "heir |
| Now or long lead-in |
| Previous, to a bard |
| Prior to, to a bard |
| Prior, prior to now |
| Formerly, to a poet |
| Before, in a sonnet |
| Before, to an odist |
| Literary ''before'' |
| Odist's preposition |
| Before, in ballades |
| Poet Prior's "prior |
| Archaic preposition |
| Lyrical preposition |
| Prior to, to a poet |
| Two-way preposition |
| Before, to the bard |
| Prior to, poetically |
| Part of a palindrome |
| ''Look ___ ye leap'' |
| Pre" relative of old |
| A palindrome's pivot |
| Anteceding, to poets |
| Before in adherence? |
| Before, to Boccaccio |
| Center of reverence? |
| Deco-rated designer? |
| Earlier, to the Bard |
| Intro to long or now |
| It sounds like "heir |
| Midway down Everest? |
| Outmoded preposition |
| Palindrome for Pryor |
| Poetic word of order |
| Predating, in poetry |
| Previous to, in odes |
| Previously, to Keats |
| Prior to, in sonnets |
| Prior to, previously |
| Shakespeare's before |
| Sooner than, in odes |
| Stanzaic preposition |
| Tennyson preposition |
| Word used before now |
| Able was I ___ I ... |
| Before" in old poems |
| Macbeth" preposition |
| Before, romantically |
| Before, to Dickinson |
| Long or now preceder |
| Palindromic 'before' |
| Preceding, in poetry |
| Ahead of, poetically |
| Before, in a ballade |
| Keatsian preposition |
| Previously, in verse |
| Palindrome in poetry |
| Previously, in poems |
| Palindrome for poets |
| Obsolete preposition |
| Literary preposition |
| Poetic time reference |
| Previously, in poetry |
| Before, in old poetry |
| Before in Cinderella? |
| Before, before before |
| Before, if you're 475 |
| Before, pretentiously |
| Before, to an elegist |
| Before, to Wordsworth |
| Browning's ''before'' |
| Cockney location word |
| Cockney's dog summons |
| Homophone for ''air'' |
| Not after, poetically |
| Poetic previously |
| Preposition in an ode |
| Previous to, in poems |
| Prior to, in a sonnet |
| Shakespearean "before |
| Sooner than, in poems |
| Sooner than, to bards |
| Sooner than, to Byron |
| Sooner than, to Keats |
| Up to, to a versifier |
| Word of relative time |
| Before, to Longfellow |
| Dickinson preposition |
| It comes before "long |
| Previous to, in verse |
| Previous to, to bards |
| Word with long or now |
| Before, in a syllable |
| Preceding, poetically |
| Sooner than, in verse |
| Afore's poetic cousin |
| Previous to, in poesy |
| Preposition in poetry |
| Earlier than, to poets |
| Previously, poetically |
| Previously, previously |
| ''... ___ I saw Elba'' |
| Before" of long before |
| Present," to a cockney |
| Before to Shakespeare |
| Before, for Wordsworth |
| Before, non-iambically |
| Center of differences? |
| Center of a palindrome |
| Center of preferences? |
| Earlier than, in poems |
| Heretofore, to Herrick |
| It sounds like ''air'' |
| Long or now antecedent |
| Middle of a palindrome |
| Palindromist's "before |
| Preposition before now |
| Present, Cockney-style |
| Previous to, to a bard |
| Previous to, to a poet |
| Previously, to Chaucer |
| Prior to, in old times |
| Rather than, to Cowper |
| Rather than, to Hamlet |
| Sooner than in poetry |
| Old poetic conjunction |
| Poet's palindrome word |
| Sonneteer's ''before'' |
| Versifier's ''before'' |
| Old long introduction? |
| Reversible preposition |
| Sooner than, to a bard |
| Sooner than, to a poet |
| Rather than, in poetry |
| Before, back and forth |
| Before, to a sonneteer |
| Before, in palindromes |
| Poet's word for before |
| Before, for Shakespeare |
| In advance of, in verse |
| Poetic lead-in to "long |
| Previously, in lit crit |
| Previously, to Browning |
| Prior to, of old poetry |
| Rather than, poetically |
| Roll-call reply in Soho |
| Sonneteer's preposition |
| Spanish letter after cu |
| Word before long or now |
| Before, in bygone times |
| Before, in one syllable |
| Before, long before now |
| Before, to Robert Burns |
| Obsolescent preposition |
| Previous to, poetically |
| Sooner than, in sonnets |
| Sooner than, poetically |
| Sooner than, to Spenser |
| Before, a long time ago |
| Before, to poets of old |
| Now" or "long" preceder |
| Before, palindromically |
| Poetic word for "before |
| Stanza writer's "before |
| Versifier's preposition |
| Palindromic conjunction |
| Palindromic preposition |
| Before, in poetry of old |
| ... was I ___ I saw Elba |
| Cockney roll call answer |
| Cockney's "in this place |
| Hostile reaction center? |
| It may come before "long |
| Palindrome seen in poems |
| Poetic word before "long |
| ___ long (poetic "soon") |
| Famous palindrome center |
| I - I palindromic center |
| Poetic homophone of "air |
| Prepositional palindrome |
| Old word meaning "before |
| ''Before,'' in literature |
| Able was I ___ I saw ... |
| Before, in Brit Lit class |
| In the time leading up to |
| It might come before long |
| Previous to, to Dickinson |
| Previously used in poetry |
| Previously used by poets? |
| Riley's "_____ I Went Mad |
| Romantic poetry's "before |
| . . . ___ my Romeo comes? |
| It can appear before long |
| Preposition used by bards |
| Earlier than, to Browning |
| It may appear before long |
| Shakespearean preposition |
| Preposition in old poetry |
| Old-fashioned preposition |
| ___ I was old!": Coleridge |
| Listen ___!" (Cockney cry) |
| Look ___ ye leap": Heywood |
| Prior to," palindromically |
| Cockney's roll-call answer |
| Double-bladed ___ II razor |
| In advance of, archaically |
| Lead-in for "long" or "now |
| Long introduction of yore? |
| Palindrome in a palindrome |
| Poor Richard's preposition |
| Before, in poetic language |
| Before, in romantic poetry |
| Old-style "heir" homophone |
| Vague time frame indicator |
| You may see it before long |
| Poet's palindromic "before |
| Before, in an old syllable |
| Two-way poetic preposition |
| Palindromist's preposition |
| Part of a famous palindrome |
| . . . ___ I will leave her |
| ... ___ he drove out of ... |
| At this point, to Andy Capp |
| Leading up to, in Lit class |
| Middle of an old palindrome |
| Old-style homophone of "air |
| Palindrome in many a stanza |
| Sooner than, to a sonneteer |
| Sooner than, to Shakespeare |
| Spanish letter two after pe |
| Syllable-saving preposition |
| Old intro to "long" or "now |
| This may appear before long |
| Poetic word meaning "before |
| Before, as written by poets |
| Now" or "long" starter, once |
| Before, backward and forward |
| Before, in a syllable of old |
| Center of a noted palindrome |
| Napoleon's palindrome center |
| Old start for "now" or "long |
| What may be seen before long |
| What you may see before long |
| With "long," this means soon |
| You might see it before long |
| Before" in only one syllable |
| Center of a famed palindrome |
| Middle of a famed palindrome |
| Old syllable meaning "before |
| . . . was I ___ I saw . . . |
| Bit of poetry from Cinderella |
| Older than old-school "before |
| ''Able was I ___ I saw Elba'' |
| Center of a famous palindrome |
| Middle of a famous palindrome |
| ...___ he rode out of sight... |
| Middle of a popular palindrome |
| Palindromic poet's preposition |
| Shelley's oft-used preposition |
| Word following "Able was I ... |
| Before, before we used "before |
| Palindromic poetry preposition |
| Well-known palindrome's middle |
| Palindromic preposition of old |
| Poet's palindromic preposition |
| ___ Babylon was dust" (Shelley) |
| Maid of Athens, ___ we part ... |
| Before, long before the present |
| Center of the "Elba" palindrome |
| It's between I's in a palidrome |
| Palindromic, poetic preposition |
| Previously, in literature class |
| What's been written before now? |
| An old syllable meaning "before |
| Poetic, palindromic preposition |
| Center of Napoleon's palindrome |
| Previously used by Shakespeare? |
| ___ half my days . . . ": Milton |
| ___ the first cock crow" (Shak.) |
| ... ___ I again behold my Romeo! |
| But I heard him exclaim, ___ ... |
| Catch, __ she change . . ." Pope |
| Earlier in time, a long time ago |
| ___ Time transfigured me": Yeats |
| Word between I's in a palindrome |
| Obsolete palindromic preposition |
| Middle of a well-known palindrome |
| ... ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth |
| Air homophone that's a palindrome |
| Center word of a famed palindrome |
| Middle of the Napoleon palindrome |
| Preposition handy for palindromes |
| Preposition used by Clement Moore |
| Prior to, in "The Prioress's Tale |
| You might have seen it before now |
| Before, either way you look at it |
| Center of a well-known palindrome |
| Middle of a Napoleonic palindrome |
| '... -- he drove out of sight ...' |
| Go you to Juliet ___ you go to bed |
| Middle of a palindrome re Napoleon |
| Preposition with multiple homonyms |
| ... __ darkness comes on": Bartram |
| ___ the bat hath flown" ("Macbeth") |
| Drink deep ___ you depart" (Hamlet) |
| We shun it ___ it comes": Dickinson |
| Night Before Christmas" preposition |
| But I heard him exclaim, ___ he ... |
| I - I connector of palindromic fame |
| Ended, __ it begun" (Dickinson poem) |
| I heard him exclaim ___ he drove ... |
| Visit from St. Nicholas" preposition |
| You always end ___ you begin": Shak. |
| Outmoded preposition meaning "before |
| Preposition in Napoleon's palindrome |
| Preposition often seen in crosswords |
| ___ thou and peace may meet": Shelley |
| ___ thy fair light had fled": Shelley |
| ___ upon my bed I lay me": Longfellow |
| Blood hath been shed __ now": Macbeth |
| I feel thee __ I see thy face": Keats |
| Lord, We Ask Thee ___ We Part" (hymn) |
| Preposition that may come before long |
| ... __ those shoes were old": "Hamlet |
| ___ yet we loose the legions": Kipling |
| Maid of Athens, __ we part ...": Byron |
| Emily Dickinson's "Ended, ___ it begun |
| It meant before, before we used before |
| Word between I's in a noted palindrome |
| ___ Fancy has been quelled": Longfellow |
| ... heard him exclaim, ___ he drove ... |
| Be careful __ ye enter in . . .": Keats |
| Take heed, __ summer comes ... ": Shak. |
| Before, to a pretentious poetry student |
| Middle of the "Able... Elba" palindrome |
| Syllable-saving word for a haiku writer |
| Word that sounds like a Brontë heroine |
| Into the brain __ one can think": Keats |
| Word between I's in a famous palindrome |
| It has three- and four-letter homophones |
| ''... tell them I'll be there ___ long'' |
| . . . ___ he drove out of sight": Moore |
| Borne hither, __ all eludes me": Whitman |
| I kiss'd thee __ I kill'd thee": Othello |
| First word of Swinburne's "March: An Ode |
| Poetic preposition before "now" or "long |
| Meet me ___ the first cock crow": Oberon |
| ___ the mother's milk had dried": Kipling |
| ... thou must leave ___ long" (Sonnet 73) |
| ... Venus sets __ Mercury can rise": Pope |
| And Venus sets __ Mercury can rise": Pope |
| I kissed thee ___ I killed thee": Othello |
| That will be __ the set of sun": "Macbeth |
| We shun it ___ it comes": Emily Dickinson |
| Maid of Athens, ___ We Part" (Byron poem) |
| Listen, ___ the sound be fled": Longfellow |
| Ended, ___ it begun" (Emily Dickinson poem) |
| I hope to see London once ___ I die": Shak. |
| Inconstancy falls off ___ it begins": Shak. |
| James Whitcomb Riley's ''_____ I Went Mad'' |
| But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove . . . |
| ''___ on my bed my limbs I lay'' (Coleridge) |
| . . . ___ the mightiest Julius fell": Shak. |
| __ pales in Heaven the morning star": Lowell |
| Take heed, __ summer comes ...": Shakespeare |
| ___ we extinguish sight and speech": Browning |
| ... exclaim, __ he drove out of sight": Moore |
| ... die strangled ___ my Romeo comes?": Shak. |
| ...__ the parting hour go by": Matthew Arnold |
| I kissed thee ___ I killed thee": Shakespeare |
| Thanks in old age - thanks ___ I go": Whitman |
| A little __ the mightiest Julius fell":"Hamlet |
| And fly, __ evil intercept thy flight": Milton |
| Dear mother Ida, hearken ___ I die" (Tennyson) |
| Preposition that comes in handy in palindromes |
| Previously, in a 19th century literature class |
| Maid of Athens, ___ we part" (Lord Byron poem) |
| ___ I forsook the crowded solitude": Wordsworth |
| ___ I let fall the windows of mine eyes": Shak. |
| ___ the steamer bore him Eastward ...": Kipling |
| A little __ the mightiest Julius fell": Horatio |
| Able was I ___ I saw Elba" (notable palindrome) |
| ___ sin could blight or sorrow fade" (Coleridge) |
| For Lycidas is dead, dead ___ his prime": Milton |
| Myself was stirring ___ the break of day": Shak. |
| To love that well which thou must leave ___ long |
| Conjunction in the middle of a famous palindrome |
| Wordsworth's "__ With Cold Beads of Midnight Dew |
| ... the sun paused ___ it should alight": Shelley |
| When you're quartered safe out ___" ("Gunga Din") |
| Emily Dickinson’s “We shun it ___ it comes” |
| ___ I am J.H." (secret code in the movie "Brazil") |
| ___ on thy chin the springing beard began" (Prior) |
| ... __ he drove out of sight": Christmas poem line |
| On the night __ the pending battle . . .": Whitman |
| Thanks in old age - thanks ___ I go": Walt Whitman |
| 'I heard him exclaim, -- he drove out of sight ...' |
| __ fancy you consult, consult your purse": Franklin |
| ___ on my bed my limbs I lay" (line from Coleridge) |
| Lightning tingles, hovering ___ it strike": Shelley |
| Old age creeps on us ___ we think it nigh" (Dryden) |
| . . . a little ___ the mightiest Julius fell": Shak. |
| Like a stoop'd falcon ___ he takes his prey" (Keats) |
| We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Shak. |
| ''And look before you ___ you leap'' (Samuel Butler) |
| Whose passing-bell may ___ the midnight toll" (Keats) |
| You shall hear more __ morning": "Measure for Measure |
| We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Hamlet |
| __ frost-flower and snow-blossom faded ...": Swinburne |
| ___ midnight's frown and morning's smile..." (Shelley) |
| ... __ the hot sun count / His dewy rosary ...": Keats |
| It will be long ___ the marshes resume" (Robert Frost) |
| But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight ... |
| Death closes all: but something ___ the end" (Tennyson) |
| I hope to see London once ___ I die": "Henry IV, Part 2 |
| Let us part, __ the season of passion forget us": Yeats |
| ___ yet that last strain dying awed the air" (Coleridge) |
| Able was I ___ I saw Elba" (Napoleon-inspired palindrome) |
| Nay, 'twill be this hour ___ I have done weeping" (Shak.) |
| ___ Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" (Dunbar poem) |
| Prior to, poetically [Subscribe to the AVCX at avxwords.com] |
| ___ the bat hath flown / His cloister'd flight ...": Macbeth |
| ___ fancy you consult, consult your purse": Benjamin Franklin |
| Blood hath been shed ___ now, i' th' olden time": Shakespeare |
| Ev'n thought meets thought, ___ from the lips it part" (Pope) |
| ___ the long roll of the ages end" (start of an old Irish song) |
| And look thou meet me ___ the first cock crow" (Oberon, to Puck) |
| ___ thrice the sun hath done salutation to the dawn" (Shakespeare) |
| Poetic preposition most puzzlemakers are tired of writing clues for |
| That 'tis their sighing, wailing ___ they go / Into oblivion": Keats |
| “How long will a man lie i’ the earth ___ he rot?”: “Hamlet” |
| ___ Music's golden tongue / Flatter'd to tears this aged man ...": Keats |
| That will be ___ the set of sun" (line from the first scene of "Macbeth") |
| Leave this horrid scene ___ I use another outdated poetic preposition!" (Madison) |
| ___, little darlin', don't shed no tears" (lyric in Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry") |
| But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight" (penultimate line of "A Visit From St. Nicholas") |
| Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ___ the other side he see. |
| Sometimes I ain't so sho who's got ___ a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't" (William Faulkner) |
| Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn / ___ sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes" (Paul Laurence Dunbar) |