OBESE is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for OBESE in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "OBESE" answer was first appeared in "6 Jan 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "More than fubsy". It was authored by Arthur W. Palmer. Recently, the "OBESE" answer has been used for "10 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Like Jabba the Hutt (2)". It was authored by Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen. "OBESE" appeared 138 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "OBESE" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2023 | 20A | Like Jabba the Hutt | Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen |
| 12 Mar 2023 | 11D | Like Nero Wolfe | David Tuffs |
| 11 Dec 2022 | 55D | Like sumo wrestlers, medically speaking | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| 7 Oct 2022 | 53D | Falstaffian, in a way | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| 22 Jun 2022 | 55D | Very corpulent | Kate Hawkins |
| 4 Dec 2021 | 49D | Like Falstaff | Nam Jin Yoon |
| 4 Jul 2021 | 79A | Like Ignatius J. Reilly in “A Confederacy of Dunces” | Howard Barkin |
| 27 Dec 2020 | 31A | Having a very high body mass index | Daniel Grinberg |
| 27 May 2020 | 58A | Very big | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| 2 May 2020 | 42D | Like Jabba the Hutt | Paolo Pasco |
| 21 Apr 2020 | 48A | Not just corpulent | Andrew Kingsley |
| 4 Feb 2020 | 49D | More than fat | Queena Mewers and Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 1 Jan 2020 | 65A | Having a body mass index over 30, medically | Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen |
| 14 Apr 2019 | 118A | Having a high B.M.I., say | Will Nediger |
| 20 Nov 2018 | 52D | Busting the scales | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 11 Sep 2018 | 55A | Very heavy | Timothy Polin |
| 29 Aug 2018 | 37A | Extra-large | Alex Bajcz |
| 22 Jul 2018 | 31A | Big, big, big | Patrick Merrell |
| 30 Oct 2017 | 58A | Seriously overweight | Jay Kaskel |
| 13 Sep 2017 | 2D | Portly plus | Daniel Mauer |
| 25 Jun 2017 | 121A | Like those who really have guts? | Jacob Stulberg |
| 12 Jun 2017 | 48D | Way overweight | Dan Margolis |
| 6 Jun 2017 | 50D | Jabba-esque | Lisa Loeb and Doug Peterson |
| 24 Feb 2017 | 29D | Like cartoondom’s Peter Griffin or Chief Wiggum | Andrew Zhou |
| 29 Jan 2017 | 116A | Having a lot to lose, maybe | Jim Hyres and David Steinberg |
| 10 Dec 2016 | 25A | Extremely endomorphic | Byron Walden |
| 5 Jun 2016 | 97D | Too big for one’s britches, say? | Tom McCoy |
| 2 Aug 2015 | 68D | Big, big, big | Matt Ginsberg |
| 19 Jul 2015 | 119A | Scale-busting | Tom McCoy |
| 23 Mar 2015 | 14A | Way overweight | Michael Dewey |
| 8 Feb 2015 | 88A | Jumbo-sized | Jeremy Newton |
| 21 Dec 2014 | 35D | Like President Taft | Joel Fagliano |
| 1 Jul 2014 | 53D | Very heavy | Gary Cee |
| 1 May 2014 | 33A | Big, big, big | Brandon Hensley |
| 14 Apr 2014 | 34A | Not just overweight | Gareth Bain |
| 6 Feb 2014 | 48D | Extra-large | Joe Krozel |
| 21 Jan 2014 | 6D | Way overweight | Todd Gross |
| 6 Oct 2013 | 85D | Overlarge | Patrick Berry |
| 23 Sep 2013 | 16A | More than fat | Susan Gelfand |
| 8 Jul 2013 | 43A | Extra-fat | Randy Sowell |
| 5 Jun 2013 | 65A | Like “The Biggest Loser” contestants | Mark Bickham |
| 13 May 2013 | 29D | Seriously overweight | Allan E. Parrish |
| 2 Oct 2012 | 29D | Carrying a lot? | Ethan Cooper |
| 23 Sep 2012 | 68D | Supersized | Matt Ginsberg |
| 11 Jul 2012 | 18D | Needing a seat belt extender, say | Allan E. Parrish |
| 20 Jun 2012 | 25D | Eligible for “The Biggest Loser” | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 30 May 2012 | 18D | Too weighty | David J. Kahn |
| 6 Dec 2011 | 5D | Fat | Steven E. Atwood |
| 28 Nov 2011 | 16A | Fatter than fat | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 16 Aug 2011 | 55A | Big, big, big | David Steinberg |
| 26 May 2011 | 41A | Really big | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| 23 Apr 2011 | 18A | Off-the-scale? | Mike Nothnagel |
| 6 Apr 2011 | 29A | Needing a seat belt extender, say | Gareth Bain |
| 11 Sep 2010 | 35D | Struggling with middle management? | Brad Wilber |
| 31 Jul 2010 | 7D | Extremely upscale? | Barry C. Silk |
| 12 Jul 2010 | 42A | Way too weighty | Freddie Cheng |
| 17 Jun 2010 | 67A | Not just big | Corey Rubin |
| 9 May 2010 | 110D | Like many a sumo wrestler | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 26 Feb 2010 | 44D | Very upscale? | Josh Knapp |
| 9 Jun 2009 | 19A | Having a lot to lose? | Steve Dobis |
| 20 Mar 2009 | 53A | Very big | David Levinson Wilk |
| 28 Dec 2008 | 7D | Scale-busting | Patrick Berry |
| 2 Apr 2008 | 14D | Overly large | Patrick Merrell |
| 23 Dec 2007 | 30A | Way overdue to take off? | Adam G. Perl |
| 5 Sep 2007 | 73A | In need of middle management? | Richard Silvestri |
| 14 Aug 2007 | 51A | Overweight plus | C. W. Stewart |
| 1 Aug 2007 | 65A | Really big | David J. Kahn |
| 2 May 2007 | 50D | Much too big for one’s britches? | Richard Silvestri |
| 29 Apr 2007 | 26D | Bigger than big | Henry Hook |
| 22 Apr 2007 | 129D | Mighty big | Victor Fleming |
| 8 Apr 2007 | 85A | Really big | Byron Walden |
| 2 Jan 2007 | 70A | Waist-ful? | Sarah Keller |
| 13 Nov 2006 | 6D | More than fat | Peter A. Collins |
| 11 Jun 2006 | 104D | Scale-busting | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| 2 Feb 2006 | 1A | Overextended? | Byron Walden |
| 12 Dec 2005 | 56D | Fatter than fat | Allan E. Parrish |
| 11 Nov 2005 | 58A | Very big | Eric Berlin |
| 30 Oct 2005 | 95D | Packing way too much | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| 27 Sep 2005 | 66A | Not just fat | Kevan Choset |
| 18 Jul 2004 | 64D | Really big | Seth A. Abel |
| 3 Jan 2004 | 31D | Really big | James M. and James C. Jenista |
| 20 Nov 2003 | 39A | Opposite of wasted | Manny Nosowsky |
| 16 Oct 2003 | 14A | Way too heavy | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 16 Sep 2003 | 10D | Corpulent plus | Michael Doran |
| 26 Aug 2003 | 52D | Beyond pudgy | Richard Hughes |
| 22 May 2003 | 32D | Past plump | Dan Reichert |
| 28 May 2002 | 7D | More than heavy | Ed Early |
| 10 May 2002 | 46D | Too big | Manny Nosowsky |
| 11 Jan 2002 | 27A | Not good at losing | Mark Diehl |
| 15 Nov 2001 | 29D | Hard to miss | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 31 Oct 2001 | 52D | Overweight | Mary Pat Hidding |
| 16 Oct 2001 | 46D | Corpulent | Sarah Keller |
| 22 Aug 2001 | 30D | Having a lot to lose? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 11 Feb 2001 | 113D | Way too weighty | Bob Peoples and Nancy Salomon |
| 26 Jan 2001 | 20A | Needing to cut down | Joe DiPietro |
| 12 Dec 2000 | 45D | More than plump | Nick Grivas |
| 19 Oct 2000 | 11D | Way too weighty | Patrick Jordan |
| 2 Oct 2000 | 26D | Not just fat | Sarah Keller |
| 19 Jun 2000 | 49D | Like a 500-pounder | Manny Nosowsky |
| 28 Feb 2000 | 10D | Overly overweight | Jerry E. Rosman |
| 21 Dec 1999 | 67A | Heavy-plus | Richard Hughes |
| 2 Dec 1999 | 1A | Needing to take off | Mel Taub |
| 31 Oct 1999 | 152A | Like Henry VIII | Frank A. Longo |
| 23 Jul 1999 | 45A | Far from spare | Joe DiPietro |
| 3 Jul 1999 | 45D | More than large | David J. Kahn |
| 13 Feb 1999 | 35A | Bigger than 36-Down | David J. Kahn |
| 30 Nov 1998 | 12D | Portly and then some | Cynthia Joy Higgins |
| 5 Nov 1998 | 55D | Having a lot to lose | Nancy Salomon |
| 28 Jun 1998 | 18D | Having made substantial gains? | Fred Piscop |
| 11 May 1998 | 19A | More than plump | Gregory E. Paul |
| 9 May 1998 | 36D | Having a lot to lose? | Rich Norris |
| 9 Feb 1998 | 22A | Like most sumo wrestlers | Robert Dillman |
| 12 Jan 1998 | 18A | Portly plus | John Greenman |
| 18 Dec 1997 | 8D | Wide-bodied | Cathy Millhauser |
| 14 Aug 1997 | 30A | More than tubby | David J. Kahn |
| 10 Jun 1997 | 50D | Corpulent plus | Fred Piscop |
| 25 May 1997 | 42A | More than big | Cathy Millhauser |
| 22 May 1997 | 46D | Corpulent | Rose White |
| 1 Apr 1997 | 6D | More than plump | Patrick Jordan |
| 10 Nov 1996 | 40A | Like Falstaff | R. Hamel |
| 21 Jul 1996 | 75D | Bigger than big | D. Niles |
| 23 May 1996 | 49D | More than portly | M. E. Brindamour |
| 3 May 1996 | 21A | “Equatorially” ample | H. Estes |
| 4 Feb 1996 | 26A | Bigger than big | D. J. Kahn |
| 14 Jan 1996 | 25D | Bigger than big | C. Millhauser |
| 22 Oct 1995 | 123D | More than pudgy | Matt Gaffney |
| 8 Aug 1995 | 33A | Portly plus | Gregory E. Paul |
| 10 Jul 1995 | 25D | On the heavy side | Sidney L. Robbins |
| 9 Apr 1995 | 41A | Rotund plus | Cathy Millhauser |
| 27 Feb 1995 | 21A | More than big | Sidney L. Robbins |
| 1 Jan 1995 | 36D | Not merely pudgy | Henry Hook |
| 25 Sep 1994 | 145A | More than big | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 6 Sep 1994 | 6D | More than flabby | Janet R. Bender |
| 10 Jul 1994 | 53D | With lots of rolls? | Alvin Chase |
| 6 Jun 1994 | 42A | More than fat | Robert Zimmerman |
| 24 Apr 1994 | 101D | Like Jabba the Hutt, of “Star Wars” | Louis Sabin |
| 20 Mar 1994 | 40D | Too plump | Joel Davajan |
| 6 Jan 1994 | 15A | More than fubsy | Arthur W. Palmer |
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