Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sat, Dec 09, 2023 | 57A | Tense | Doug Peterson and Christina Iverson | Shortz |
Sat, Mar 25, 2023 | 49D | Not relaxed | Robyn Weintraub | Shortz |
Mon, Mar 20, 2023 | 33A | Pushing the envelope, so to speak | Adam Vincent | Shortz |
Sun, Jan 22, 2023 | 18D | Avant-garde | Garrett Chalfin | Shortz |
Thu, Dec 15, 2022 | 67A | Tense | Bruce Haight | Shortz |
Sun, Dec 11, 2022 | 95A | Avant-garde | Laura Taylor Kinnel | Shortz |
Wed, Oct 19, 2022 | 6A | Provocative … like this answer's position in the grid? | Ryan Patrick Smith | Shortz |
Thu, Dec 09, 2021 | 13D | Experimental, say | Alexander Liebeskind | Shortz |
Tue, Sep 14, 2021 | 24A | Really out there, as humor | Christopher Adams | Shortz |
Mon, Apr 20, 2020 | 4D | Uptight | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Sun, Jan 12, 2020 | 8D | Pushing the envelope | Evan Mahnken and David Steinberg | Shortz |
Fri, Oct 18, 2019 | 33D | Pushing the bounds of propriety | Jamey Smith | Shortz |
Sat, May 25, 2019 | 52D | Out there | Paolo Pasco | Shortz |
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 | 122A | Avant-garde | Lee Taylor | Shortz |
Mon, Apr 16, 2018 | 69A | Avant-garde | David Woolf | Shortz |
Thu, Apr 12, 2018 | 13D | Avant-garde | Jules Markey | Shortz |
Sun, Jul 30, 2017 | 121A | Uneasy | Isaac Mizrahi and David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Sun, Mar 05, 2017 | 77D | Eliciting nervous laughter, say | Timothy Polin | Shortz |
Tue, Jan 03, 2017 | 40D | Tense | Michael Shteyman | Shortz |
Sat, Oct 22, 2016 | 28D | Like fringe festival fare | James Mulhern | Shortz |
Wed, Oct 19, 2016 | 64A | Risqué, maybe | Tom Pepper | Shortz |
Tue, Sep 20, 2016 | 10A | Pushing conventional limits | Tracy Bennett | Shortz |
Sun, Apr 24, 2016 | 65A | Avant-garde | Kathy Wienberg | Shortz |
Sun, Dec 06, 2015 | 18D | Pushing the envelope | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Tue, Oct 06, 2015 | 68A | Envelope-pushing | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 | 69A | Risqué, say | Joel Fagliano and Finn Vigeland | Shortz |
Wed, Aug 27, 2014 | 4D | Pushing the boundaries of propriety | Gareth Bain and David Poole | Shortz |
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 | 63A | Avant-garde | Jason Flinn | Shortz |
Mon, Aug 13, 2012 | 71A | Exploring the bounds of propriety, as humor | Gareth Bain | Shortz |
Mon, Mar 05, 2012 | 60D | A little "out there," as humor | Mike Nothnagel | Shortz |
Thu, Aug 04, 2011 | 10D | Apprehensive | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Sat, Jan 22, 2011 | 47A | Apt to snap | Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Wed, Dec 22, 2010 | 62A | Tense | Michael Sharp | Shortz |
Thu, Nov 11, 2010 | 71A | Jumpy | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 | 68A | Pushing the envelope | Zoe Wheeler, Brown University '12 | Shortz |
Sat, Jun 26, 2010 | 53D | Envelope-pushing | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | 13D | Unconventionally provocative | Matt Ginsberg | Shortz |
Fri, Jan 08, 2010 | 65A | Daring, in a way | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Sun, Mar 01, 2009 | 99A | All nerves | Robert W. Harris | Shortz |
Wed, Jul 30, 2008 | 30A | Nervous | Elizabeth A. Long | Shortz |
Thu, May 17, 2007 | 69A | On tenterhooks | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Wed, May 09, 2007 | 66A | Pushing the envelope | Patrick Merrell | Shortz |
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 | 31D | Avant-garde | Todd McClary | Shortz |
Thu, Dec 29, 2005 | 12D | Nervous | David Pringle | Shortz |
Mon, Apr 11, 2005 | 14A | Nervously irritable | Norma Steinberg | Shortz |
Wed, Dec 29, 2004 | 57D | Like some modern filmmaking | Jay Giess | Shortz |
Mon, Dec 27, 2004 | 60D | Nervously irritable | Levi Denham | Shortz |
Tue, Oct 26, 2004 | 49D | Fidgeting | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Tue, Sep 14, 2004 | 4A | On pins and needles | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes | Shortz |
Mon, Feb 23, 2004 | 25D | Jittery | Anne Garellick | Shortz |
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 | 17D | Uptight | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
Tue, Dec 10, 2002 | 69A | Nervous | John Underwood | Shortz |
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 | 133A | Like hip ads | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Wed, Jan 23, 2002 | 69A | Tense | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Mon, May 14, 2001 | 61D | On pins and needles | Gregory E. Paul | Shortz |
Thu, Mar 15, 2001 | 66A | Irritable | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
Mon, Oct 23, 2000 | 13D | Nervously irritable | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg | Shortz |
Wed, Sep 13, 2000 | 47A | Nervous | Jim Morton | Shortz |
Sun, Jul 09, 2000 | 111D | On pins and needles | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Fri, Jun 16, 2000 | 16A | Tense | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Tue, Jun 29, 1999 | 59D | Nervous | Arthur S. Verdesca | Shortz |
Wed, Jul 01, 1998 | 65A | Irascible | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
Sun, Jun 28, 1998 | 83D | Wired | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
Wed, Jun 24, 1998 | 32D | Irritable | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
Tue, May 05, 1998 | 54D | Stressed out | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
Mon, May 04, 1998 | 52D | Nervously irritable | Hugh Davis | Shortz |
Wed, Jul 30, 1997 | 50D | On pins and needles | John D. Leavy | Shortz |
Sun, Mar 09, 1997 | 64D | Tense | June Boggs | Shortz |
Wed, Nov 13, 1996 | 13D | On pins and needles | M. Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sun, Mar 03, 1996 | 47A | Snappish | B. Klahn | Shortz |
Sun, Oct 08, 1995 | 134D | Wired | Nancy Nicholson Joline | Shortz |
Wed, Oct 05, 1994 | 61D | Nervous | Fran & Lou Sabin | Shortz |