Answer: OLD
OLD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 455 times.
Referring Clues:
- Superannuated
- Aged
- Like a centenarian
- Dated
- Part of O.T.
- Like the gray mare
- Elderly
- Hackneyed
- Much-used
- Getting on in years
- Vintage
- Worn
- Long in the tooth
- Ancient
- Gone gray, say
- Experienced, as a pro
- Archaic
- Word with hand or hat
- From an earlier time
- With 34-Down, bygone Baltic language
- Up there in years
- Passe
- Getting on
- With 44-Across, a veteran
- Previously heard
- Unmodernized
- Out of production
- Medieval
- Worn out
- "There is no fool like an __ fool"
- Gray, say
- Like octogenarians
- With 42-Down, out-of-date
- Word before school or master
- Fossillike
- ___ Navy
- Follower or preceder of age
- Timeworn
- Antique
- With 58-Down, Civil War battle eagle named after the president
- Prehistoric
- 80 or over, say
- "__ Devil Moon" (song from "Finian's Rainbow")
- OPPOSITE OF 11-DOWN
- Something ___ (bride's need)
- "When I Grow Too __ to Dream"
- Bygone
- Not funny anymore
- Not cutting-edge
- Like the farmer MacDonald
- Erstwhile
- On in years
- Moth-eaten
- Hoary
- Out of date
- Used
- 80-Across, in English
- Outdated
- Time-worn
- Stale
- Discontinued
- Fossilized
- Like the hills
- See 51-Down
- Past
- Familiar
- Not fresh
- Outmoded
- The "O" in G.O.P.
- Outworn
- Antediluvian
- Getting tiresome
- Antiquated
- No longer funny
- Going way back, as friends
- Former
- Like Methuselah
- With 19-Across, language from which "steak" and "eggs" come
- Out of vogue
- With 41-Across, one you go way back with
- Primeval
- Part of G.O.P.
- With 11-Down, U.S.S. Constitution nickname
- Unlike a spring chicken
- Done to death
- Of long standing
- Like the hills?
- Having had many birthdays
- Over 100
- Word before hat or hand
- Word before hat or bat
- Venerable
- Word before Faithful or Yeller
- "The ___ Man and the Sea"
- Familiar, as friends
- "___ Yeller"
- Up there
- Trite
- Long-lived
- From the past
- Of long standing, as a friend
- Like a fogy
- Like the gray mare of song
- Past one's prime
- Creaky
- Overused
- Over the hill
- Word before country or school
- Like Mother Hubbard
- Glory or guard preceder
- Like centenarians
- Not original
- GOP section
- Jolly ___ Saint Nick
- With 27-Down, veterans
- Word with maid or master
- ___ Milwaukee beer
- Tiresome
- ___-school (traditional)
- Part of VSOP
- Word with hat or hand
- Like an antique
- With 15-Across, dated
- Like a geriatrician's patient
- O.T. part
- Unoriginal
- Word with school or guard
- Worn-out
- Hardly cutting-edge
- Like many 11-Down
- "Something __, something ..."
- Told too many times
- Hardly fresh
- Like overused jokes
- Like the Curiosity Shop
- Moth-eaten, maybe
- Overfamiliar
- Like MacDonald
- From ancient times
- From the year one
- Noachian
- "Something ___, something ..."
- Hardly born yesterday
- Word with ''chap'' or ''fellow''
- In the low 90s?
- No spring chicken
- Form of English
- ___ Hickory
- The kind of friends that go way back
- Hardly original
- Word with maid or hand
- Not very original
- Word with "Spice" in a brand name
- Long familiar
- Unmodern
- Outmoded, e.g.
- 11-Down to the max
- Like something from the Jurassic period
- Word with hat or school
- Word with guard or goat
- What few want to grow
- Resembling King Cole
- Faithful or reliable word
- Word with "school" or "guard"
- ___ Faithful
- Well-worn
- Told too often
- Word with "Faithful" or "Glory"
- Medieval, e.g.
- "It's still the same ___ story"
- GOP segment?
- Tried-and-true
- 19th-century, say
- Far from fresh
- Familiar, as a joke
- Like most carbon dating specimens
- From way back
- So last year
- As __ as Methuselah
- No longer used
- Word with "chap" or "fellow"
- GOP center
- Like Glory
- Long-time
- Like stale jokes
- As ___ as Methuselah
- Like dirt?
- Stale, perhaps
- Out-of-date
- Like most codgers
- See 27-Down
- Part of GOP
- Long-known
- Foster's "- Dog Tray"
- Time-honored
- Tried and true
- Like tall redwoods
- ___ Spice aftershave
- Like Father Christmas
- Word with man or maid
- In need of replacement
- Advanced in years
- Pass
- Up in years
- Opposite of 52-Down
- In need of repair
- See 7-Down
- See 44-Across
- With 54-Across, senescence
- With 57-Across, partner of 'Arsenic'
- Opposite of 26-Across
- See 1-Across
- In need of fixing
- In need of touching up
- Longstanding
- Needing repair
- In disrepair
- Like St. Nick
- Gray-headed
- With 84-Across kids' card game,
- Stale, say
- Master or guard start
- Obsolete
- Time-tested
- Like a joke told far too often
- ___ school
- Like yesterday's news
- Mossy
- Definitely not new
- Requiring many candles on a birthday cake
- Grate, with "get," or what this puzzle's theme answers get
- With 21-Across, senescence
- Like most carbon-dating specimens
- "No Country for ___ Men"
- Antiquity
- Yeller's adjective
- Like chestnuts
- Clichéd
- Senile
- "... at the ___ ball game!"
- Like the man in a Hemingway title
- Longtime
- See 115-Down
- ___ Glory (U.S. flag)
- Collectible, maybe
- Played out
- Previously superseded
- "___ lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal"
- Requiring many candles on one's cake
- Well-seasoned
- Not new
- No longer current
- Unlike spring chickens
- Seasoned
- GOP member?
- Getting up there
- Long in tooth
- Dilapidated
- Mature
- Like Glory?
- On its last legs
- Abe adjective
- From some time back
- No longer amusing
- Traditional
- Superseded
- With 14 Across, veterans
- Long-established
- ___ faithful leader
- Told far too often
- Tedious
- See 29-Across
- Like very familiar jokes
- With 126-Across, Disney title dog of 1957
- Doddery
- Hat or maid leader
- Word with guard or gate
- Gathering dust
- Gray's partner?
- Word with Glory or Testament
- Like many a joke
- Word with country or world
- ___ Testament
- Young's opposite
- Onetime
- Told too much
- Fifty years your senior, e.g.
- White-haired
- Like some timers?
- ___ glory
- Like too many jokes
- ___ guard
- Word with "Glory" or "Testament"
- Not a spring chicken
- Rusted, perhaps
- Like a chestnut
- ___ hat
- Out of use
- Yeller
- Like fossils
- Like Yeller
- ___ as the hills
- "... an ___ dog new tricks"
- "___ New Hampshire" (state song)
- Tom "___ 98" harmon
- "___ Black Magic"
- Long practiced
- Having lived many years
- There's no fool like this kind
- ___ school (like classic rap)
- Like an octogenarian
- Overdone
- With 4-Down, Fred Gipson book that won a 1957 Newbery Honor
- Faithful
- So last month
- Way past voting age
- With 6 Down, name for the third-oldest US college
- Like King Cole
- Previous
- Hat or hand preceder
- Like most knock-knock jokes
- Type of man, woman or maid
- Right jolly ___ elf (Santa)
- Hardly young
- Having been around longer than most
- 99
- Elderly and then some
- Far from new
- What it takes decades to grow
- What "paleo-" means
- With 18-Down, 1957 Disney tearjerker
- Not up-to-date
- Like the hills, in a simile
- Like a Hemingway title man
- Told too often, as a joke
- In one's golden years
- ___ Navy: discount retailer
- "... at the ___ ball game!": song lyric
- Word before Scratch or Nick
- Immemorial
- Word before Vic or Bailey
- Past one's "sell by" date
- ___ Father Christmas
- Like an oft-told joke
- Not likely to breakdance
- U-turn from new
- Like jokes you've heard
- Word before school or hat
- Overused, as jokes
- ___ Glory (US flag)
- Past its prime
- Overfamiliar, as a one-liner
- "This ___ House"
- Smelling of mothballs
- Like pals who go way back
- "Ask This ___ House"
- Yellowstone's ___ Faithful
- Pushing 90
- Having a long history
- ___-fashioned (quaint)
- What King Cole is called
- From way, way back
- Not at all fresh
- Like stuff from the '30s
- The ____ and the useless
- Like a kid in 80 years
- Any ___ (whichever)
- Having driven a Model T
- Like Sophia Petrillo
- Not yet updated
- Up there, so to speak
- 15-Across, perhaps
- Gathering dust, say
- Tired, as a joke
- Overused, jokewise
- What one gets after many years of work
- Part of V.S.O.P.
- Like MacDonald of song
- Like many garage sale items
- Like buffalo nickels
- Like 1960s-'70s music
- In disuse
- With 53-Down, maxim
- Antiquarian
- With 33-Down, the U.S. flag, affectionately
- Born many moons ago
- No longer fresh
- ___ Faithful (Yellowstone geyser)
- What it takes years and years to grow
- Not recent
- Lacking originality
- Like some jokes
- Word before "times" or "news"
- Same ___ story
- The same ___ story
- "___ King Cole"
- Not current
- ___-fashioned
- Experienced
- ___-school
- Like a classic joke
- Like farmer MacDonald
- "___ Town Road" (Lil Nas X hit)
- Unfunny from overfamiliarity
- Word before "school" or "soul"
- Like the year you ring out on December 31
- Chip off the ___ block
- How technology quickly starts to feel
- Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers
- Like Mother Hubbard and King Cole
- With 42-Down, unlikely racetrack pick
- Opposite of new
- Like habits that die hard
- ___ Man Winter
- ___ Bay Seasoning
- *___ Square (translation of "Vieux Carré")
- Corny, maybe
- Opposite of 41-Across
- Grayed
- Not young
- Up there, you might say
- Word before or after age
- Hand-me-down
- Like a joke you've heard many times before
- Like antiques
- Out of style
- Like a relic
- From long ago
- Having celebrated many birthdays
- "Out with the ___ ..."
- Slightly gamy
- Part of a bridal quartet?
- Tired
- Shabby, maybe
- Far from current
- What a good joke never gets
- Lacking freshness
- Like Saint Nick
- Worn, maybe
- "This ___ thing?"
- Like Father Time
- Like food you should probably smell before eating
- Like the Muppets Statler and Waldorf
- Stale, in a way
- A chip off the ___ block
- Like antique jewelry
- Word with style or fashioned
- From a past era
- Like someone saying "How do you do, fellow kids?," maybe
- Tiresome, maybe
- Word with hand or saw
- Like well-known news
- Like yellowed pages
- "I was today years ___ when ... "
- "___ habits die screaming"
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 06, 2025
- LA Times - September 30, 2025
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- New York Times - July 22, 2025
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- LA Times - May 22, 2025
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- USA Today - April 03, 2025
- New York Times - March 25, 2025
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- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- USA Today - January 08, 2025
- New York Times - January 08, 2025
- USA Today - January 06, 2025
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