AFAR is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for AFAR in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "AFAR" answer was first appeared in "7 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Nowhere near". It was authored by Eric Albert. Recently, the "AFAR" answer has been used for "17 Nov 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Where many travelers come from". It was authored by Hemant Mehta. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hints: "Way off (34)", "Miles away (12)", "In the distance (12)", "Many miles away (9)", "At a distance (17)", "A long way off (6)", "Come from ___ (10)", "Way out there (7)", "From a distance (8)". "AFAR" appeared 210 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "AFAR" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Nov 2023 | 43D | Where many travelers come from | Hemant Mehta |
| 3 Aug 2023 | 31D | Quite a distance | Simeon Seigel |
| 26 Jul 2023 | 48D | Miles away | Mary Crane |
| 15 Jul 2023 | 1A | Way out | Jeff Chen |
| 5 Jun 2023 | 14D | At a distance | Eric Rollfing |
| 26 Jan 2023 | 52A | Way off | Dan Ziring and Quiara Vasquez |
| 27 Oct 2022 | 26D | A ways away | Barbara Lin |
| 26 Sep 2022 | 25D | Off in the distance | Margaret Seikel |
| 1 Feb 2022 | 33A | A long way off | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 3 Sep 2021 | 52A | “Bearing gifts we traverse ___” (“We Three Kings” lyric) | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Paolo Pasco |
| 30 Jul 2021 | 47D | 48-Down away | Eric Bornstein |
| 26 May 2021 | 54D | Way off | Will Nediger |
| 15 Apr 2021 | 46A | A ways away | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Ben Zimmer |
| 1 Mar 2021 | 53D | Miles away | Michael Lieberman |
| 27 Dec 2020 | 100A | How Phileas Fogg traveled | Daniel Grinberg |
| 22 Nov 2020 | 106D | In the distance | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 4 Sep 2020 | 35D | Way off | Brian Thomas |
| 29 Aug 2020 | 2D | Way out there | Michael Hawkins |
| 26 Aug 2020 | 33D | Way yonder | Carl Larson |
| 20 Jul 2020 | 55D | At a distance | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 13 Jul 2020 | 27D | Miles away | Erik Agard |
| 15 Jun 2020 | 60D | Many miles away | Olivia Mitra Framke |
| 26 Feb 2020 | 50A | Some ways off | Francis Heaney |
| 4 Dec 2019 | 33A | How Odysseus traveled | Evan Mahnken |
| 12 Oct 2019 | 54D | Way off | Andrew J. Ries |
| 25 Aug 2019 | 14A | Miles away | Matt Ginsberg |
| 17 Jul 2019 | 44D | Over the horizon | Ada Nicolle |
| 25 Jun 2019 | 59D | Beyond the horizon | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 21 Mar 2019 | 57A | A long way off | Christopher Adams |
| 13 Jan 2019 | 37D | Miles away | Andy Kravis |
| 16 Oct 2018 | 62D | A ways away | Ed Sessa |
| 20 Aug 2018 | 43D | From a distance | Peter Gordon |
| 11 Jul 2018 | 38D | Many miles away | Michael Hawkins |
| 10 Jul 2018 | 3D | In the distance | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 20 Jun 2018 | 26A | Quite distant | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| 3 Jun 2018 | 69D | Not even close? | David J. Kahn |
| 5 Nov 2017 | 84A | A long way off | Natan Last |
| 20 Sep 2017 | 55A | Off in the distance | Hal Moore |
| 20 Aug 2017 | 64D | Not even close | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| 9 Jul 2017 | 84A | How Bilbo Baggins traveled | Will Nediger |
| 29 Jun 2017 | 57D | Light-years away | Rich Proulx |
| 8 Jun 2017 | 4D | “Our deeds still travel with us from ___, / And what we have been makes us what we are”: George Eliot | David Steinberg |
| 21 May 2017 | 67D | A long way off | Randolph Ross |
| 20 Mar 2017 | 25D | Quite a distance off | Neil deGrasse Tyson and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 16 Mar 2017 | 52D | Place to worship from | Joel Fagliano |
| 29 Jan 2017 | 115A | In the distance | Jim Hyres and David Steinberg |
| 29 Dec 2016 | 57D | In the distance | Kevan Choset |
| 22 Nov 2016 | 10A | Quite a ways away | Andrew Zhou |
| 17 Jul 2016 | 15A | Over yonder | Jerry Miccolis |
| 26 Jun 2016 | 37A | Way off | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen |
| 16 Apr 2016 | 25A | Not close | Andrew Zhou |
| 5 Apr 2016 | 52D | Many miles away | Dan Schoenholz |
| 29 Mar 2016 | 27D | Way off | Peter A. Collins |
| 7 Mar 2016 | 9D | Many miles off | Damon Gulczynski |
| 4 Jan 2016 | 56D | At a distance | Herre Schouwerwou |
| 29 Dec 2015 | 58D | Light years away | Jeff Stillman |
| 28 Sep 2015 | 1D | Way off | Dan Bischof and Jeff Chen |
| 19 Jun 2015 | 37A | Over the hill, say | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| 12 Aug 2014 | 57A | A long way off | Robyn Weintraub |
| 11 Aug 2014 | 5A | Quite a ways off | David Steinberg and Bernice Gordon |
| 14 Jul 2014 | 54D | From a distance | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| 25 Jun 2014 | 60D | Miles and miles away | Patrick Merrell |
| 16 Apr 2014 | 14A | ___ cry | Michael Dewey |
| 31 Mar 2014 | 36D | Many miles off | Robert Cirillo |
| 30 Mar 2014 | 68D | Way off | Peter A. Collins |
| 13 Oct 2013 | 77A | Not even close | Jeff Chen |
| 26 Jul 2013 | 28A | Miles off | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 8 Mar 2013 | 5D | Way off | Paula Gamache |
| 6 Mar 2013 | 17A | Out there | Richard Chisholm |
| 20 Feb 2013 | 37A | Miles away | John Farmer |
| 17 Feb 2013 | 76A | Way off | Ian Livengood and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| 30 Jan 2013 | 19A | Way off | Will Nediger |
| 27 Aug 2012 | 54D | Miles away | Michael Farabaugh |
| 3 Jun 2012 | 97D | In the distance | Patrick Berry |
| 11 May 2012 | 55D | Way off | Natan Last |
| 10 May 2012 | 50D | Light years off | Jules P. Markey |
| 6 May 2012 | 107D | Beginning to cry? | Alex Vratsanos |
| 29 Mar 2012 | 35D | Come from ___ | Milo Beckman |
| 27 Jan 2012 | 52D | Not close | Joe Krozel |
| 12 Dec 2011 | 50D | Come from ___ | Gary Cee |
| 26 Oct 2011 | 24D | Many miles away | Milo Beckman |
| 14 Aug 2011 | 71D | Come from ___ | Paula Gamache |
| 20 Jul 2011 | 18A | From a distance | Peter A. Collins |
| 15 Jun 2011 | 3D | Way out there | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| 26 May 2011 | 47A | Miles off | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| 20 Dec 2010 | 31A | Many miles off | Donna Hoke |
| 1 Apr 2010 | 59A | Cry ___ | Lee Glickstein |
| 6 Mar 2010 | 4D | One way to travel | Barry Silk |
| 20 Dec 2009 | 106D | Miles off | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 26 Nov 2009 | 62A | In the distance | Paula Gamache |
| 16 Sep 2009 | 58D | Some distance away | Maura B. Jacobson |
| 25 Aug 2009 | 22D | At a distance | Bob Johnson |
| 29 Jul 2009 | 6A | Way out | Tim Wescott |
| 15 Jun 2009 | 10A | Way off | John Dunn |
| 12 May 2009 | 20A | Way off | Wayne and P. K. King |
| 29 Mar 2009 | 111D | Way off | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 1 Feb 2009 | 90A | Come from ___ | Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg |
| 25 Oct 2008 | 16A | Well out of range | Karen M. Tracey |
| 19 Oct 2008 | 46A | Way off | Joe DiPietro |
| 25 Aug 2008 | 9A | Come from ___ | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
| 24 Mar 2008 | 10D | Light years away | David J. Kahn |
| 9 Mar 2008 | 73D | At a distance | Patrick Berry |
| 29 Feb 2008 | 44A | In the distance | Patrick Berry |
| 10 Feb 2008 | 103D | Miles away | Bill Zais |
| 15 Oct 2007 | 56D | Many miles away | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 2 Oct 2007 | 18D | In the distance | Oliver Hill |
| 4 Jun 2007 | 24D | Way off | Steve Kahn |
| 14 May 2007 | 22D | From quite a distance | Paula Gamache |
| 5 Apr 2007 | 48D | Way over there | Mike Shenk |
| 11 Feb 2007 | 61D | Yonder | Mark Feldman |
| 25 Jan 2007 | 55D | Miles away | Manny Nosowsky |
| 7 Dec 2006 | 23D | Way out there | Kelly Clark |
| 10 Oct 2006 | 57A | Way, way off | Tyler Hinman |
| 11 Sep 2006 | 49D | Way, way off | Lynn Lempel |
| 20 Jul 2006 | 22A | Way out | Kevin McCann |
| 2 Jun 2006 | 10A | Well out of range | Jim Page |
| 21 May 2006 | 28D | Miles away | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| 5 Mar 2006 | 111D | Way off | Ashish Madhukar Vengsarkar |
| 15 Feb 2006 | 33D | Way off | Byron Walden |
| 29 Nov 2005 | 54D | Miles away | Adam Cohen |
| 4 Nov 2005 | 41A | Over the hill, maybe | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| 1 Nov 2005 | 23D | Many miles away | Sarah Keller |
| 14 Oct 2005 | 10A | Somewhere over the rainbow | Michael Shteyman |
| 24 May 2005 | 53D | Out there | Mike Torch |
| 1 May 2005 | 55D | Really out there | Joe DiPietro |
| 18 Apr 2005 | 6A | Many miles away | Robert Dillman |
| 16 Mar 2005 | 19A | Way off | Holden Baker |
| 14 Feb 2005 | 5A | At a distance | Janet R. Bender |
| 16 Dec 2004 | 11A | Way off | Mike Torch |
| 19 Oct 2004 | 10A | At a distance | Adam Cohen |
| 25 Mar 2004 | 60A | Miles off | David Liben-Nowell and Ryan O’Donnell |
| 30 Dec 2003 | 5D | Off in the distance | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| 27 Oct 2003 | 18D | Miles off | Richard Miller |
| 19 Aug 2003 | 10A | At a distance | Karen M. Tracey |
| 5 Jun 2003 | 22A | A long way off | David J. Kahn |
| 6 Apr 2003 | 111D | Really out there | Joe DiPietro |
| 14 Jan 2003 | 36A | Way off | Adam G. Perl |
| 29 Dec 2002 | 107A | Way out there | Richard Silvestri |
| 21 Nov 2002 | 15A | Out there | Joe DiPietro |
| 12 Nov 2002 | 22D | At a distance | Adam Cohen |
| 1 Nov 2002 | 43D | Way out there | Joe DiPietro |
| 10 Sep 2002 | 6A | Way off | Wei-Hwa Huang |
| 21 Aug 2002 | 61D | Off yonder | Joel Kaplow |
| 23 Dec 2001 | 77D | In the distance | Frances Hansen |
| 12 Nov 2001 | 34D | Come from ___ | Janice M. Putney |
| 12 Sep 2001 | 10A | Out of range, maybe | Philip Lew |
| 7 Sep 2001 | 19A | Off yonder | Manny Nosowsky |
| 3 Jul 2001 | 50D | From a distance | Randall J. Hartman |
| 2 Jun 2001 | 30D | Way off | Jim Page |
| 27 Dec 2000 | 10A | From where some worship? | Michael S. Maurer and Bonnie Prystowsky |
| 11 Dec 2000 | 35D | Way off | Myles Callum |
| 13 Oct 2000 | 5D | Winston Churchill’s “___ Country” | Joe DiPietro |
| 9 Oct 2000 | 52A | Come from ___ | Teresa M. Hackett |
| 30 Sep 2000 | 17A | Not nigh | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 20 Aug 2000 | 101D | Many miles off | Charles M. Deber |
| 29 Nov 1999 | 25A | At a distance | Richard Chisholm |
| 7 Oct 1999 | 58A | Off yonder | Kelly Clark |
| 27 Sep 1999 | 58A | Miles away | Ed Early |
| 8 Aug 1999 | 109D | Some miles away | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 7 Jun 1999 | 53D | At a distance | Robert O. Dillman |
| 3 Jun 1999 | 43A | Off in the distance | Frances Hansen |
| 30 May 1999 | 105D | At a distance | Cathy Millhauser |
| 12 May 1999 | 22A | Way off | Nancy Salomon |
| 27 Apr 1999 | 58A | Way out there | Fred Piscop |
| 3 Mar 1999 | 5A | Many miles off | Rich Norris |
| 11 Feb 1999 | 52D | Yon | Cathy Millhauser |
| 28 Dec 1998 | 15D | At a distance | Adam G. Perl |
| 10 Dec 1998 | 21D | At a distance | Peter Gordon |
| 20 Nov 1998 | 46D | At some distance | Manny Nosowsky |
| 5 Nov 1998 | 34D | Way off | Nancy Salomon |
| 28 Oct 1998 | 38D | Many miles away | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 23 Sep 1998 | 10A | Not nigh | Michael S. Maurer |
| 13 Aug 1998 | 33D | Way off | A. J. Santora |
| 16 Jun 1998 | 46D | Many miles away | Bill Ballard |
| 10 Apr 1998 | 26D | Way off | Manny Nosowsky |
| 16 Feb 1998 | 1A | From a distance | Peter Gordon |
| 22 Jan 1998 | 1A | Come from ___ | Patrick Jordan |
| 14 Dec 1997 | 85D | Way off | Nancy Salomon |
| 13 Dec 1997 | 39D | ___ cry | Richard Silvestri |
| 8 Nov 1997 | 10D | Way off | Jim Page |
| 23 Aug 1997 | 10D | Winston Churchill’s “___ Country” | Rich Norris |
| 12 Aug 1997 | 55D | In the distance | Janet R. Bender |
| 28 Jul 1997 | 35D | From a distance | Patrick Jordan |
| 23 Feb 1997 | 15A | Winston Churchill’s “___ Country” | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 15 Jan 1997 | 41A | Quite some distance off | C. Currier |
| 28 Nov 1996 | 14A | Churchill’s “___ Country” | B. Klahn |
| 3 Nov 1996 | 77A | “It’s ___ cry from…” | M. Nosowsky |
| 17 Apr 1996 | 37A | At a distance | F. Heaney |
| 24 Jan 1996 | 10A | At a distance | J. Hess |
| 15 Jan 1996 | 54D | From a distance | Gregory E. Paul |
| 24 Dec 1995 | 96D | In the distance | Frances Hansen |
| 5 Dec 1995 | 18A | Beyond the horizon | Robert Katz |
| 16 Oct 1995 | 49D | Come from ___ | Bernice Gordon |
| 12 Oct 1995 | 5A | ___ cry | Christopher Hurt |
| 26 Jul 1995 | 34D | “It’s ___ cry…” | Christopher Hurt |
| 29 May 1995 | 40A | In the distance | Bernice Gordon |
| 11 May 1995 | 26D | From a distance | Wayne Robert Williams |
| 8 Apr 1995 | 5D | Way out there | A.J. Santora |
| 19 Feb 1995 | 40A | Off yonder | Alfio Micci |
| 15 Jan 1995 | 71D | Way off | Ernie Furtado |
| 13 Jan 1995 | 1A | ___ cry | Judith Perry |
| 8 Dec 1994 | 25D | Worship from ___ | Randolph Ross |
| 29 Sep 1994 | 56D | Way off | Randolph Ross |
| 25 Sep 1994 | 68A | Not nearby | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 15 Sep 1994 | 27D | Way off | Fred Piscop |
| 3 Sep 1994 | 29D | Come from ___ | Raymond Hamel |
| 21 Aug 1994 | 112A | Distantly | Ted Fulton |
| 16 Jul 1994 | 38D | Not in the area | Mark Diehl |
| 1 Feb 1994 | 10A | At a distance | Robert Zimmerman |
| 7 Dec 1993 | 49D | Nowhere near | Eric Albert |
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