Clues for the word "WAS"
We've had 260 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 965 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on March 16, 2025.
Definition of was
- imp. - of Be
- v. - The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.
Referring Clues
- Used to be
- Had been
- Third word in a limerick
- Took place
- Is no longer
- Lived
- Walked the earth
- Breathed
- Is in the past?
- "That ___ no lady ..."
- Is in another form?
- Occurred
- "What ___ I saying?"
- Functioned as
- Existed
- Verb for a historian
- Served as
- Has been
- Starts to like, with "to"
- Had a life
- Isn't anymore
- Is in the past
- Sawback
- Is past?
- Performed the role of
- "Time ___ ..."
- "That ___ no lady..."
- "How Green ___ My Valley"
- "As I ___ saying..."
- Third word in many limericks
- "What ___ that?"
- "How ___ I to know?"
- "Now, where ___ I?"
- "___ it something I said?"
- Surfing site
- "I ___ afraid of that!"
- "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___..."
- "Because it ___ there"
- Once existed
- "That ___ then ..."
- "We ___ robbed!"
- "I ___ there!"
- Second verb in the Bible
- Were for one?
- Auxiliary of the past?
- "And She ___" (Talking Heads song)
- "What ___ I thinking?"
- "___ I dreaming?"
- "That ___ close"
- "It ___ I": 1959 hit
- "As I ___ saying . . ."
- "Now, where ___ I?"
- "Who ___ that masked man?"
- Became
- Second word of "A Tale of Two Cities"
- Symbolized
- Is no more
- Did exist
- Eighth word of "A Tale of Two Cities"
- "That ___ then ..."
- Had life
- Word in many limericks
- "... flag ___ still there"
- "Kilroy ___ here"
- Third word of many limericks
- Is no longer?
- "That ___ no lady ..."
- "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ . . ."
- ". . . flag ___ still there"
- "Who ___ that masked man?"
- Historic verb?
- Saw backward?
- "That ___ then, this . . ."
- "Now where ___ I?"
- Had the quality of being
- "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ ..."
- "Kilroy ___ here"
- "This ___ fun!"
- "It ___ a Very Good Year"
- Verb in a retrospective
- Didn't just seem
- "I ___ a Teenage Werewolf"
- "... flag ___ still there"
- "That ___ no lady ..."
- Eighth word of "A Tale of Two Cities"
- "It ___ I": 1959 hit
- "What ___ I thinking?"
- "___ I dreaming?"
- "That ___ close"
- "That ___ close!"
- Isn't any more
- Verb of the past?
- "Who --- that masked man?"
- "Till There --- You"
- "That --- then, this ..."
- "As I ___ saying ..."
- Second word of "A Tale of Two Cities"
- "That ___ then, this ..."
- Isn't now
- "There once" follower
- "When I ___ just a boy, ..."
- "Dark ___ the Night" (2009 hipster charity CD)
- Lived and breathed
- Existed once
- Word after Wuzzy
- With 27 Across, excelled in
- "That ___ easy ..."
- "And the earth ___ without form"
- Ain't no more
- Past tense of 49-Across
- 'Till There ___ You'
- 'It ___ the best of times, ...'
- Verb in a limerick's first line
- Used to exist
- Used to live
- Once lived
- "... that our flag ___ still there"
- Past word
- Portrayed
- Had existence
- Is, in history?
- "And She ___" (Talking Heads tune)
- "That ___ a close one!"
- "I ___ had!"
- "There ___ an old woman ..."
- "Papa ___ a Rollin' Stone"
- 'How ___ I to know?'
- No longer is
- Limerick's third word, often
- "I ___ only kidding!"
- Past tense of 39-Across
- Verb for yesteryear
- Acted as
- "Never ___"
- Verb in history texts
- 'I just kidding!'
- Consisted of
- Never-___ (unsuccessful sort)
- "How The West ___ Won"
- Had functioned as
- "I wish I ___ [sic] homeward bound": Paul Simon
- 'Now, where I?'
- "I ___ afraid you'd say that"
- 1937 song "___ it rain?"
- "It ___ the best of times ..."
- "Now ... where ___ I?"
- "I ___ only kidding"
- Had being
- "That ___ a great shot!"
- "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ a bear"
- Is, in the past tense
- "... and the flag ___ still there"
- Past tense of is
- Past form of "is"
- Word after "fuzzy wuzzy"
- Used to be a revolutionary tool
- SAW, in the past?
- Isn't around now
- Never-___ (not even a has-been)
- "... afraid, I ___ petrified"
- "At first I ___ afraid, I was petrified"
- Talking Heads "And She ___"
- Stones "She ___ Hot"
- Stones producer Don
- Social Distortion "I ___ Wrong"
- "I once ___ lost, but now I'm found"
- Used to be what in Germany?
- Used to be nearly all sawn up
- Had been cut up
- Lived in Kawasaki
- Used to be wasted on Ted
- Lived in the western part of Asia
- Lived in swashbuckling times
- "And She ___" (1985 Talking Heads song)
- "I ___ framed!"
- "Father ___ a Fullback" (1949 Fred MacMurray comedy)
- "What ___ I saying?"
- They were, he ___
- Used to be necessary to know a subject
- Verb for the past
- "How ___ I to know?"
- Lived in Iowa somewhere
- Limerick's third word
- Is no 59-Across
- "Fuzzy Wuzzy" follower
- "Like I ___ saying ..."
- 'Now, where I?'
- Verb of history?
- Word of the past
- Is no longer in Pugwash
- "It ___ my pleasure"
- "There once ___ a ..."
- "There once ___ ..."
- Previously cost
- Once cost
- "Till There ___ You," song from "The Music Man"
- "Able ___ I ere I saw Elba"
- "How ___ it?"
- Is in the past?
- Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities"
- Part of "TW3"
- "What had happened ___ ..."
- What one did in the past
- "... and the flag ___ still ..."
- Used to be cut up!
- "I ___ Made to Love Her"
- Used to be squandered by Ted
- Is, in retrospect
- "What ___ that?!"
- "That ___ fun!"
- "What ___ that about?"
- "It ___ fun while it lasted"
- Third word of many a limerick
- "Where ___ I?"
- "I ___ studying when you called"
- Had the role of
- "Kelis ___ Here" (2006 album)
- See 24-Across
- Had been the cutter-up
- Is, three days ago?
- Used to be misused by Ted
- Word in obituaries
- Past tense word
- Formerly held the position of
- "Well, that ___ awkward ..."
- Is, once
- "When The Emperor ___ Divine" (Otsuka novel)
- Yesterday's "is" is today's ___
- "He ___ here just a minute ago"
- Felt
- "I knew it ___ you"
- "Well, that ___ fun"
- Past-tense "is"
- "Phew, that ___ a close one!"
- Lived with Ted, perhaps, but was lost on him
- Saw from behind?
- Is, in hindsight
- The Beatles' "Till There ___ You"
- Second word of many a limerick
- Lived a bit wastefully?
- Were, for one?
- "As It ___" (Harry Styles hit)
- Word between "what" and "that"
- "That ___ Then, This Is Now" (1971 S. E. Hinton novel)
- "Hmm, where ___ I?"
- Is past?
- Common verb
- "A good time ___ had by all"
- Is, before
- "it ___ never going to be okay" (jaye simpson book)
- "It ___ all a dream"
- "As It ___" (Harry Styles song)
- "That - close!"
- Historian's verb
- What might come between "that" and "that"
- "It ___ a dark and stormy night ..."
- "I ___ supposed to be sent away, but they forgot to come and get me" ("Fortnight" lyric)
- "I ___ Here" ("Suffs" song)
- "When I ___ your age ..."
- "... so, where ___ I?"
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - March 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 26, 2025
- USA Today - February 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 17, 2025
- USA Today - February 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 06, 2025
- USA Today - February 05, 2025
- USA Today - February 02, 2025
- LA Times - January 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 14, 2025
- USA Today - January 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 06, 2025
- New York Times - January 02, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 28, 2024
- USA Today - December 08, 2024
- LA Times - December 06, 2024
- USA Today - November 29, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 20, 2024
- USA Today - November 17, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 15, 2024
- Mirror Mini - November 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 08, 2024
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