HAIKU is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for HAIKU in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "HAIKU" answer was first appeared in "5 Feb 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Matsuo Basho work". It was authored by Rand H. Burns / Will Shortz. Recently, the "HAIKU" answer has been used for "19 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "17-syllable verse". It was authored by Seth Weitberg. "HAIKU" appeared 28 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "HAIKU" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2023 | 12D | 17-syllable verse | Seth Weitberg |
| 5 Jul 2023 | 46D | “What Richard Wright wrote” could be the first line of one | Joe Deeney |
| 24 Jul 2020 | 23D | Bit of poetry with the same syllable count as this very clue | Grant Thackray / Will Shortz |
| 21 Oct 2019 | 9A | “The west wind whispered, / And touched the eyelids of spring: / Her eyes, Primroses,” for a classic example | Joe Deeney / Will Shortz |
| 12 Aug 2018 | 17D | Poem name whose singular and plural forms are the same | Ross Trudeau / Will Shortz |
| 6 Jan 2018 | 44A | Writing form even more constrained than a tweet | Peter Wentz / Will Shortz |
| 21 Feb 2017 | 51D | 5-7-5 verse | Timothy Polin / Will Shortz |
| 13 Feb 2017 | 13D | Poem like “The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer’s small herald” | Brent Sverdloff and Michael Blake / Will Shortz |
| 27 Apr 2016 | 14A | Three-line work | Jeff Stillman / Will Shortz |
| 20 Mar 2016 | 77A | One-stanza poem | Joel Fagliano / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jan 2015 | 5D | Traditional three-liner | Sam Ezersky / Will Shortz |
| 13 Nov 2014 | 15A | Exercise in brevity | Tracy Gray / Will Shortz |
| 11 Nov 2014 | 10D | Three-line verse | James Mulhern / Will Shortz |
| 9 Oct 2014 | 52D | “An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again,” e.g. | Joel Fagliano / Will Shortz |
| 6 Jun 2011 | 31D | Poem with exactly 17 syllables | Gary Whitehead / Will Shortz |
| 23 Nov 2010 | 32D | Japanese verse form | Richard Chisholm / Will Shortz |
| 19 Jul 2008 | 47D | One-stanza poem | Todd McClary / Will Shortz |
| 15 Mar 2006 | 49A | Evocative three-line verse | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 24 Oct 2005 | 48D | Three-line poem | Lynn Lempel / Will Shortz |
| 22 Jul 2004 | 45D | Three-line work | Greg Staples / Will Shortz |
| 11 Apr 2003 | 55A | Epigrammatic verse | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 7 Oct 2002 | 14A | Poem with 17 syllables | Greg Staples / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jul 2002 | 14A | Japanese verse | Peter Gordon / Will Shortz |
| 24 Jul 2001 | 11D | Japanese verse | Gayle Dean / Will Shortz |
| 29 May 2000 | 30D | Japanese verse | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 28 Sep 1997 | 42D | Eastern verse | Robert H. Wolfe / Will Shortz |
| 30 Jun 1997 | 25D | 17-syllable poem | Peter Gordon / Will Shortz |
| 5 Feb 1994 | 4D | Matsuo Basho work | Rand H. Burns / Will Shortz |
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