Clues for the word "PAST"
We've had 212 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 605 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 12, 2025.
Definition of past
- v. - Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.
- n. - A former time or state; a state of things gone by.
- prep. - Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.
- prep. - Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
- prep. - Above; exceeding; more than.
- adv. - By; beyond; as, he ran past.
Referring Clues
- History
- After
- Auld lang syne, with "the"
- One may be checkered
- Beyond
- Kind of tense
- After the hour
- Time machine's destination
- It may be shady
- It may be checkered
- Gone by
- History, with "the"
- Previous
- Future's opposite
- Like some practice
- Future of the present
- Historical
- Over
- Like water under the bridge
- ___ master (exceptionally skilled one)
- Behind us all
- Former life
- Onetime
- Ex-
- See 19-Across
- It might be checkered
- Events gone by
- Not present or future
- Historian's interest
- "Back to the Future" destination
- "Living in the ___" (Jethro Tull song)
- Personal history
- Existing only in memory
- Present preceder
- ___ due
- "What's ___ is prologue" (Antonio in "The Tempest")
- Gone by, as time
- Days gone by
- No longer current
- Later than
- It's history
- Yesteryear
- Behind us
- It could be checkered
- Type of participle
- Bygone
- Former
- Back
- Time gone by
- Tense situation?
- Tense period?
- Proust's "Remembrance of Things ___"
- In the ___ (long ago)
- Ago
- Bygone days
- Years back
- Water under the bridge
- Nostalgic time
- Bygone time
- Proust's "Remembrance of Things ___"
- Source of a blast?
- Word used in telling time
- We all have one
- Tense description?
- ___-walsy
- Historian's concern
- What's done is this
- Word used in telling time, sometimes
- Yours may be checkered
- Word with due or participle
- A Christmas in "A Christmas Carol"
- Time traveler's destination, sometimes
- Days of yore
- Time traveler's destination, perhaps
- Kind of tense?
- Farther on than
- Time out of mind
- It's behind us
- Gone
- Tense time?
- Time you can't relive
- Bygone period
- Long-ago period
- Prologue to shakespeare
- Ancient history
- Memoir topic
- Time traveler's destination, at least half the time
- Proust's "Remembrance of Things ___"
- Film noir classic, "Out of the ___"
- In the ___ (long ago)
- Background
- Tense type
- Tense type
- Not the present or future
- Years gone by
- Historian's subject
- One of the tenses
- Yesterday
- Like history
- Prior
- Over and done with
- Antiquity
- Finished
- Checkered thing, maybe
- "Every saint has a ___": Oscar Wilde
- Over with
- Destination in "The Time Machine"
- Yesterday's tense
- Over and done
- Former time
- Tense type?
- Sandburg's "bucket of ashes"
- Finished with
- Not now or the future
- Annoyance
- Dinosaur's time
- What a flashback shows
- In history
- It's behind you
- Former years
- Long gone
- Long ago
- Historian's study
- ___, present and future
- Historical events
- Elapsed
- It's always behind you
- Time machine destination
- "Present" and "future" partner
- It's historic?
- Olden days
- Word repeated in "What's ___ is ___"
- "Checkered" period
- Historian's focus
- Shady time, for some
- Long-ago time
- With 97-Across, like late payments
- Previous time of life
- Tense choice?
- Good old days
- Opposite of future
- Old man's time is tense
- Word before due or tense
- Not the present or the future
- What reunions try to relive
- Ringo "Blast from Your ___"
- Can't live there, musically
- "Ever Present ___" Paul McCartney
- Elton John "Sleeping With the ___"
- Hatebreed "Afflicted ___"
- "Here's to the ___" A Day to Remember
- Sevendust song about history, with "The"?
- Ended
- Succeeded in speech, though 4
- Having taken the lead from the ship astern?
- No longer tense
- Dad's mid-century history
- The ship astern has a history!
- Historian's field
- Historian's purview
- Yesterday's
- Unfinished pasta to be finished
- Hand over here! [7]
- Time traveler's destination
- Blast from the ___ (song oldie)
- See 13
- History of dad's old model car
- Half the seasoned beef is over and done with
- It's prologue, they say
- Time travel destination
- ___ tense
- Word clarified by the minute hand
- "Checkered" time
- Some ship astern has to be behind you!
- In days gone by, dad was saintly
- Too far gone to be historic?
- Tense of "tensed"
- "The ___ is never dead ..." (start of a Faulkner quote)
- Subject of reminiscence
- It goes with the present and future
- Blast from the ___
- Time traveler's destination, maybe
- Earlier years
- Interest for nostalgists
- Made tense?
- "I wouldn't put it ___ them"
- History is in it
- Father's the titular head no longer
- Neither present nor future
- "What's ___ is prologue": "The Tempest"
- It's all over dad's shirt tail!
- Earlier
- Flashback setting
- Dad's initially troubled history
- Tense of "passed"
- Having taken the lead from the ship astern?
- "American Sonnets for My ___ and Future Assassin" (Terrance Hayes collection)
- "That's all in the ___ now"
- A thing of the ___
- All-you-can-eat venues with elbows and bow ties
- When history happened
- Time before now
- Tense of "wept" and "sobbed"
- #7
- Tense in "Nevertheless, she persisted"
- After dad's time
- History's subject matter
- Yesterday is in the ___
- "___ Lives" (2023 film)
- Tense for "ate" and "broke"
- "___ Lives," 2023 film nominated for Best Picture
- "Stop living in the ___!"
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 12, 2025
- Daily American - December 10, 2025
- Daily American - December 03, 2025
- LA Times - November 11, 2025
- LA Times - November 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 23, 2025
- LA Times - July 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 06, 2025
- New York Times - May 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 27, 2025
- New York Times - March 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2024
- USA Today - December 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2024
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