| Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
| Tue, Aug 13, 2024 | 25D | Black, poetically | Benjamin Panico | Fagliano |
| Wed, Mar 15, 2023 | 35A | Black, in verse | Michael B. Berg | Shortz |
| Mon, Mar 29, 2021 | 59D | Black, in poetry | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
| Thu, Aug 15, 2019 | 42D | Dark hue | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
| Wed, Sep 12, 2018 | 10D | Jet-black | Jeffrey Wechsler | Shortz |
| Mon, Jul 23, 2018 | 16A | Black, to poets | Todd Gross | Shortz |
| Mon, Jun 25, 2018 | 14A | Black, in poetry | Kathy Wienberg | Shortz |
| Thu, Mar 15, 2018 | 49A | Black | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
| Tue, Jan 31, 2017 | 59D | Black, in poetry | Neil Padrick Wilson | Shortz |
| Sun, May 29, 2016 | 9D | Jet | Kevin G. Der | Shortz |
| Mon, Feb 15, 2016 | 61A | Black, to a bard | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
| Mon, Oct 26, 2015 | 29D | Black, in poetry | Bruce Haight | Shortz |
| Thu, Mar 12, 2015 | 52A | "Heaven's ___ vault, / Studded with stars unutterably bright": Shelley | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
| Sun, Feb 15, 2015 | 114A | Colored like ink in "Love's Labour's Lost" | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
| Tue, Jul 01, 2014 | 43D | Black, to poets | Gary Cee | Shortz |
| Wed, Dec 18, 2013 | 10A | Black, to a bard | Ed Sessa | Shortz |
| Wed, Oct 30, 2013 | 26D | Jet | Joel Fagliano | Shortz |
| Mon, Sep 02, 2013 | 6A | Poetic black | Jim Peredo | Shortz |
| Fri, Aug 09, 2013 | 60A | Deep black | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
| Sun, Apr 07, 2013 | 22A | Black shade | Matt Ginsberg | Shortz |
| Thu, Sep 06, 2012 | 10D | Jet | Ben Pall | Shortz |
| Wed, Aug 15, 2012 | 14A | Black, to bards | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
| Sat, Jun 02, 2012 | 7D | Jet | Tim Croce | Shortz |
| Mon, Feb 06, 2012 | 14A | Black, to bards | Tom Pepper | Shortz |
| Sun, Jan 15, 2012 | 82A | Shade of a swan's bill in a Keats poem | Finn Vigeland | Shortz |
| Wed, Dec 14, 2011 | 8D | Black, to bards | Tim Croce | Shortz |
| Tue, Nov 08, 2011 | 24D | Black, in poetry | Scott Atkinson | Shortz |
| Wed, Apr 20, 2011 | 25D | Like black piano keys | Michael Farabaugh | Shortz |
| Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | 57A | Black as night | Pete Muller | Shortz |
| Wed, Apr 13, 2011 | 57A | Ink-colored, in Shakespeare | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
| Mon, Feb 28, 2011 | 49D | Dark black | Mike Buckley | Shortz |
| Sun, Jan 09, 2011 | 100A | Black | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
| Sun, Dec 05, 2010 | 39A | Black | Ben Pall | Shortz |
| Tue, Oct 19, 2010 | 52D | Black, to bards | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
| Thu, Oct 07, 2010 | 32D | Like ink, poetically | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
| Fri, Apr 30, 2010 | 54D | Like death's dart, in Shakespeare | Natan Last | Shortz |
| Tue, Dec 29, 2009 | 13A | Black, to bards | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
| Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | 26D | Deep black | John Dunn | Shortz |
| Tue, May 26, 2009 | 25D | Black, in verse | Mike Nothnagel | Shortz |
| Sat, Feb 07, 2009 | 15A | Raven | Pete Muller | Shortz |
| Sun, Jan 11, 2009 | 43D | Like heaven's vault, in a Shelley poem | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
| Thu, Sep 11, 2008 | 16A | Like some keys | Caleb Madison | Shortz |
| Sat, Jun 23, 2007 | 53D | Like japanned wood | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
| Tue, Aug 15, 2006 | 28D | Raven-colored | David Sullivan | Shortz |
| Sat, Dec 31, 2005 | 50D | Dark, in verse | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
| Sun, Sep 18, 2005 | 55D | Black | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
| Thu, Apr 01, 2004 | 34A | Black, in poetry | Byron Walden | Shortz |
| Wed, Jan 14, 2004 | 26D | Black, poetically | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
| Mon, Nov 24, 2003 | 8D | Black, to poets | Nancy Kavanaugh | Shortz |
| Sun, Jun 08, 2003 | 17D | Like ink, to Shakespeare | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
| Tue, Jan 28, 2003 | 30D | Black, to poets | Christina Houlihan | Shortz |
| Thu, May 30, 2002 | 37A | Black | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
| Sun, May 19, 2002 | 79D | Shade of black | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
| Tue, Oct 23, 2001 | 6D | Coal-black | Leonard Williams | Shortz |
| Mon, Oct 15, 2001 | 56D | Black, in poetry | Holden Baker | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 26, 2001 | 104D | Black, to Blake | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
| Mon, Jul 02, 2001 | 1A | Black, in poetry | Sarah Keller | Shortz |
| Wed, Apr 04, 2001 | 30D | Dark, to poets | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
| Sun, Nov 12, 2000 | 53D | Deep black | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
| Sun, Oct 31, 1999 | 35A | Jet | Frank A. Longo | Shortz |
| Tue, Oct 05, 1999 | 15A | Black | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
| Wed, Apr 21, 1999 | 55D | Black | Mary E. Brindamour | Shortz |
| Sun, Feb 14, 1999 | 90A | Reflecting no light | Elizabeth Gorski | Shortz |
| Mon, Feb 08, 1999 | 56D | Black | Sidney L. Robbins (1909-97) | Shortz |
| Wed, Oct 28, 1998 | 14A | Ink's color, to Shakespeare | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
| Fri, Aug 21, 1998 | 54A | Like some piano keys | Noah Dephoure | Shortz |
| Tue, Oct 28, 1997 | 15A | Black | Bernice Gordon | Shortz |
| Wed, Jun 18, 1997 | 26D | Inky | Stanley B. Whitten | Shortz |
| Fri, Dec 20, 1996 | 59D | Black, to Blake | M. Ashwood-Smith | Shortz |
| Wed, Dec 04, 1996 | 4D | Poet's black | M. E. Skolsky | Shortz |
| Tue, Oct 29, 1996 | 22A | Black, in poetry | R. J. Hartman | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 18, 1996 | 103D | Sable | F. and L. Sabin | Shortz |
| Sat, Jul 06, 1996 | 7D | Dark, to Donne | J. DiPietro | Shortz |
| Fri, Apr 12, 1996 | 54D | Bard's black | M. Nosowsky | Shortz |
| Thu, Dec 14, 1995 | 12D | Jet | Matt Gaffney | Shortz |
| Sat, Oct 28, 1995 | 30D | Dark | Chuck Deodene | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 06, 1995 | 92D | Black | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
| Tue, Dec 20, 1994 | 5A | Black | Robert R. Zimmerman | Shortz |
| Sun, Nov 06, 1994 | 113A | Lustrous black | A.J. Santora | Shortz |
| Fri, Jun 24, 1994 | 35D | Dark, poetically | Mark Diehl | Shortz |