ACL is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for ACL in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "ACL" answer was first appeared in "11 Mar 2012" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Frequently injured knee part: Abbr.". It was authored by Victor Fleming and John Dunn. Recently, the "ACL" answer has been used for "11 Sep 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Certain knee tissue, for short". It was authored by Hoang-Kim Vu. "ACL" appeared 34 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "ACL" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep 2023 | 40A | Certain knee tissue, for short | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| 20 Aug 2023 | 60D | Femur-tibia connector, for short | Michael Schlossberg |
| 25 May 2023 | 42A | Commonly torn tissue, for short | Andrew Kingsley and Garrett Chalfin |
| 26 Apr 2023 | 56A | Possible focus of an M.R.I., in brief | Aaron M. Rosenberg |
| 18 Feb 2023 | 40A | Neighbor of the patellar tendon, in brief | Kameron Austin Collins |
| 8 Feb 2023 | 5A | Knee stabilizer, in brief | Chase Dittrich |
| 6 Nov 2022 | 117D | Patella neighbor, in brief | Michael Lieberman |
| 12 Oct 2022 | 37A | Sports trainer’s concern, for short | Drew Schmenner |
| 7 Aug 2022 | 8D | Part of the knee, for short | Tina Labadie |
| 19 Jul 2022 | 9D | Knee part, for short | Andy Kravis |
| 15 Jul 2022 | 41D | Something seen in a knee M.R.I. | Matthew Stock and Nam Jin Yoon |
| 14 Feb 2022 | 5D | ___ tear (athlete’s injury) | Alan Siegel |
| 9 Oct 2021 | 19A | Knee part, for short | August Lee-Kovach |
| 8 Oct 2021 | 24D | ___ tear (sports injury) | Yacob Yonas |
| 18 Sep 2021 | 1D | Patella neighbor, in brief | Ryan McCarty |
| 14 Jun 2021 | 35A | Common injury locale for an athlete, in brief | Andrea Carla Michaels and Doug Peterson |
| 21 Mar 2021 | 47D | Tissue that’s prone to tearing, for short | Julian Kwan |
| 8 Dec 2020 | 61D | Kind of tear for an athlete | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano |
| 6 Dec 2020 | 13D | Knee part, for short | Tony Orbach |
| 31 Oct 2020 | 27D | Abbr. in a sports injury report | Stella Zawistowski |
| 9 Apr 2020 | 34D | Part of the knee, for short | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 21 Mar 2020 | 5D | ___ tear | Damon Gulczynski |
| 1 Mar 2020 | 110D | Target of an athlete’s M.R.I. | Sam Trabucco |
| 22 Dec 2019 | 4D | ___ tear (athlete’s injury) | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| 25 Sep 2019 | 38A | Target of a knee M.R.I. | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| 14 Jul 2019 | 69D | Common sports injury site, briefly | Caitlin Reid |
| 27 Jan 2019 | 61A | ___ tear (sports injury) | Randolph Ross |
| 24 Jun 2018 | 18D | Common knee injury site, briefly | Timothy Polin |
| 28 Jan 2018 | 66D | Concern of an orthopedic M.D. | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen |
| 14 Nov 2017 | 48A | Common place for a sports injury, for short | Jerry Miccolis and Jeff Chen |
| 7 Aug 2016 | 61A | Often-injured part of the knee, for short | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| 1 May 2015 | 11D | ___ tear (knee injury) | David Steinberg |
| 5 Mar 2015 | 10D | Often-torn body part in sports, briefly | Jim Peredo |
| 11 Mar 2012 | 102D | Frequently injured knee part: Abbr. | Victor Fleming and John Dunn |
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