The Clue
Like some styles (5 letter answer)
The Answer
RETRO
Tags
Notes
The answer RETRO is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
Related Clues
In again
Back in
___-chic
Active prefix
Back in style
Backward-looking
Fashionably nostalgic
Fashionably old
Fashionably outdated
Hardly modernistic
Hip again
Kind of rocket
Nostalgic look
Nostalgic, in a way
Rocket engine
Rocket prefix
1930's-ish, e.g.
Like bell-bottoms
Like Nehru jackets
Prefix with act or grade
Prefix with active or grade
Prefix with cede or flex
Prefix with fire or choir
Prefix with grade or rocket
Small rocket engine
So out it's in
Spacecraft rocket, for short
"Vade ___ me, satana"
Word with rocket or grade
Evocative of an earlier time, as fashion
Like 70's fashion, now
Like bell-bottoms, nowadays
Like the Deco look, now
Like flip hairdos, say
So out, it's in again
Definition
RETRO as a noun:
1. a fashion reminiscent of the past
RETRO as an adjective:
1. (ex post facto, retroactive, retro) = affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex-post-facto law"; "retro pay"