Answer: WAS
WAS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 210 times.
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"
 - Verb for the past
 - Limerick's third word
 - Is no 59-Across
 - "Fuzzy Wuzzy" follower
 - Word of the past
 - What, in Weimar
 - "the man who never ___"
 - "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?"
 - Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities"
 - Is, in retrospect
 - "What ___ that?!"
 - "That ___ fun!"
 - "It ___ fun while it lasted"
 - Third word of many a limerick
 - "What had happened ___ ..."
 - "Where ___ I?"
 - Had the role of
 - "Kelis ___ Here" (2006 album)
 - "That ___ easy!"
 - See 24-Across
 - Word in obituaries
 - Formerly held the position of
 - "Well, that ___ awkward ..."
 - Is, in hindsight
 - Is, once
 - Felt
 - "I knew it ___ you"
 - "Well, that ___ fun"
 - The Beatles' "Till There ___ You"
 - Past-tense "is"
 - Saw from behind?
 - Second word of many a limerick
 - "Time ___ …"
 - 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?"
 - "A good time ___ had by all"
 - Is, before
 - "it ___ never going to be okay" (jaye simpson book)
 - "It ___ all a dream"
 - Played the role of
 - "And She ___" (Talking Heads hit)
 - Historian's verb
 - What might come between "that" and "that"
 - Past tense of "is"
 - "I ___ supposed to be sent away, but they forgot to come and get me" ("Fortnight" lyric)
 - "I ___ Here" ("Suffs" song)
 - "As I ___ saying ... "
 - "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ a bear"
 - "... so, where ___ I?"
 - "Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ a bear …"
 - "It ___ a dark and stormy night"
 - *Street urchins
 - Had the job of
 - "What ___ I supposed to do?"
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 01, 2025
 - LA Times - September 29, 2025
 - LA Times - September 04, 2025
 - USA Today - July 15, 2025
 - USA Today - July 10, 2025
 - New York Times - June 05, 2025
 - USA Today - May 20, 2025
 - New York Times - May 05, 2025
 - New York Times - April 14, 2025
 - New York Times - March 26, 2025
 - USA Today - February 24, 2025
 - USA Today - February 05, 2025
 - LA Times - January 24, 2025
 - USA Today - January 14, 2025
 - New York Times - January 02, 2025
 - LA Times - December 06, 2024
 - USA Today - November 29, 2024
 - USA Today - September 19, 2024
 - USA Today - August 15, 2024
 - USA Today - August 08, 2024
 
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