Related Clues:

• Old-style "prior to"
• "... __ he drove out of sight ..."
• "Before" in only one syllable
• '___ fancy you consult, consult your purse': Franklin
• "... __ I saw Elba"
• Odist's preposition
• Cockney location word
• Preposition with multiple homonyms
• Sooner than, poetically
• '___ I forsook the crowded solitude': Wordsworth
• "... __ the hot sun count / His dewy rosary ...": Keats
• "... was I ___ I saw Elba"
• Long introduction
• Lead-in for "long" or "now"
• Before, in a 51 Across