AHAB is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for AHAB in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "AHAB" answer was first appeared in "20 Nov 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Pequod captain (5)". It was authored by Matt Gaffney. Recently, the "AHAB" answer has been used for "2 Nov 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Literary character who cries “Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me”". It was authored by Chase Dittrich and Christina Iverson. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "“Moby-Dick” captain (13)". "AHAB" appeared 141 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "AHAB" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2023 | 27D | Literary character who cries “Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me” | Chase Dittrich and Christina Iverson |
| 26 Oct 2023 | 6A | Character who nails a doubloon to the Pequod’s mast | John Donegan |
| 14 Oct 2023 | 6A | Fictional character who cries “I am madness maddened!” | Byron Walden |
| 4 Jul 2023 | 30A | “Moby-Dick” captain | Barbara Lin |
| 22 Jun 2023 | 30D | Noted whale watcher | Michael Baker and Jeff Chen |
| 5 Mar 2023 | 46A | Literary character who cries “I am madness maddened!” | John-Clark Levin |
| 17 Feb 2023 | 10A | Fictional figure who often visits the “night-cloaked deck” | Jem Burch |
| 18 Oct 2022 | 28A | Captain in a whale of a tale? | Dan Schoenholz |
| 19 Jul 2022 | 7A | Monomaniacal captain of fiction | Andy Kravis |
| 11 Mar 2022 | 2D | “Grand, ungodly, god-like” man of fiction | Robyn Weintraub |
| 16 Jan 2022 | 31A | He gave Starbuck’s orders | Derrick Niederman |
| 30 Dec 2021 | 14A | Captain who cries “From hell’s heart I stab at thee” | John Ewbank |
| 1 Dec 2021 | 30D | Obsessed captain | Christopher Youngs |
| 12 Apr 2021 | 14A | “Moby-Dick” captain | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| 1 Feb 2021 | 29D | “Moby-Dick” captain | Soleil Saint-Cyr |
| 24 Nov 2020 | 7D | Husband of Jezebel in the Bible | Caitlin Reid |
| 10 Aug 2020 | 12A | “Moby-Dick” captain | Lynn Lempel |
| 12 Jul 2020 | 61D | Captain with a whalebone leg | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| 6 Mar 2020 | 44A | Literary character played by Gregory Peck, Patrick Stewart and Orson Welles | Caitlin Reid |
| 1 Mar 2020 | 71A | Literary protagonist named after a king of Israel | Sam Trabucco |
| 14 Jan 2020 | 54A | Pursuer of an “accursed white whale” | Jim Peredo |
| 6 Oct 2019 | 32D | Model of vengeful obsession | Howard Barkin and Victor Barocas |
| 1 Oct 2019 | 5A | Melville captain | Erik Agard |
| 25 Sep 2019 | 48A | One-legged, single-minded sea captain | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| 16 Sep 2019 | 53D | Monomaniacal captain of literature | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |
| 10 Jul 2019 | 51D | Fictional captain whose nickname is “Old Thunder” | David J. Kahn |
| 27 Dec 2018 | 19A | Monomaniac of fiction | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| 9 Dec 2018 | 15A | Starbuck’s order giver | Ross Trudeau |
| 27 Sep 2018 | 58D | Starbuck’s order giver | Daniel Kantor |
| 15 Sep 2018 | 2D | Literary character likened to a “mute, maned sea-lion” | David Liben-Nowell |
| 5 Dec 2017 | 51D | Melville monomaniac | Harry Smith and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 20 Oct 2017 | 50D | “Grand, ungodly, godlike man,” in literature | Peter Wentz |
| 12 Jun 2017 | 1D | Melville captain | Dan Margolis |
| 26 Mar 2017 | 110A | Captain of the Pequod | Tracy Gray and Jeff Chen |
| 15 Feb 2017 | 6A | Captain of literature | Jesse Eisenberg and Patrick Blindauer |
| 1 Dec 2016 | 51D | Fictional character who says “I’d strike the sun if it insulted me” | Timothy Polin |
| 12 Sep 2016 | 10A | Mariner in a whale of a novel? | Victor Fleming and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 27 Jun 2016 | 51D | “Moby-Dick” captain | Kevan Choset |
| 25 Dec 2015 | 3D | Literary character on whom Captain Hook is based | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| 15 Dec 2015 | 14A | Monomaniacal mariner | David Levinson Wilk |
| 9 Oct 2015 | 33D | Starbuck’s order giver | David Steinberg |
| 13 Jul 2015 | 5A | “Moby-Dick” captain | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 15 Oct 2014 | 47D | Starbuck’s superior | David Poole |
| 31 Jul 2014 | 10A | Captain played by Patrick Stewart | Jill Denny and Jeff Chen |
| 18 Jul 2014 | 50D | Fictional boss of Stubb and Flask | Ian Livengood |
| 15 Jun 2014 | 24D | Pequod captain | Tony Orbach |
| 25 May 2014 | 39D | 1956 Gregory Peck role | Dan Schoenholz |
| 22 May 2014 | 10A | Starbuck’s orderer | Adam G. Perl |
| 12 May 2014 | 34D | Vengeful captain | Gary Cee |
| 12 Apr 2014 | 25D | King of Kings | Mel Rosen |
| 3 Mar 2014 | 11D | “Moby-Dick” captain | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
| 27 Jan 2014 | 60D | Ill-fated captain | James Tuttle |
| 19 Jan 2014 | 27A | Fictional user of a 21-Across | Dan Schoenholz |
| 26 Nov 2013 | 6D | Starbuck’s boss | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 26 Oct 2013 | 41A | Literary character who says “I’ll chase him round Good Hope” | Barry C. Silk |
| 22 Jul 2013 | 22D | Fictional captain who said “Thou damned whale!” | Ian Livengood |
| 15 Jun 2013 | 52A | Vindictive Quaker of fiction | Ned White |
| 21 Feb 2013 | 20A | “Grand, ungodly, godlike man” of fiction | Paul Hunsberger |
| 29 Jan 2013 | 55D | Melville captain | David Steinberg |
| 6 Sep 2012 | 1D | Fictional character who says “I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer” | Ben Pall |
| 28 Aug 2012 | 52D | Ishmael’s captain | Lou Borenstein |
| 12 Jun 2012 | 35D | Queequeg’s captain | Peter A. Collins |
| 24 Nov 2011 | 9A | Fictional character who declares “Sleep? … I do not sleep, I die” | Sharon Delorme |
| 26 Aug 2010 | 48D | Captain with a “regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe” | Henry Hook |
| 15 Jul 2010 | 48A | Literary character who says “For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee” | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Patrick Blindauer |
| 24 Jun 2010 | 10D | I Kings king | John Farmer |
| 27 Aug 2009 | 17A | Literary lead role for Gregory Peck in 1956 | Derek Bowman |
| 28 Jul 2009 | 25D | Melville’s obsessed captain | Tony Orbach |
| 10 Jun 2009 | 16A | Obsessed mariner | Richard Silvestri |
| 9 May 2009 | 27D | Wicked king of Israel | Brad Wilber |
| 31 Mar 2009 | 42D | Melville’s obsessed whaler | Allan E. Parrish |
| 27 Nov 2008 | 32A | King in I Kings | Patrick Berry |
| 8 Sep 2008 | 51D | “Moby-Dick” captain | Oliver Hill |
| 13 Jun 2008 | 20A | Vengeful Quaker of literature | Patrick Berry |
| 28 Nov 2007 | 60A | Melville mariner | Ray Fontenot |
| 27 Jun 2007 | 5D | Ill-fated captain | Barbara Olson |
| 9 Jun 2007 | 43A | Captain of Stubb and Flask | Karen M. Tracey |
| 12 Mar 2007 | 6A | “Moby-Dick” captain | Kevin Der |
| 14 Jan 2007 | 35D | Starring role for John Barrymore and Gregory Peck | Harvey Estes |
| 26 Oct 2006 | 10A | Captain of the Pequod | Todd McClary and Dave Tuller |
| 16 Oct 2006 | 1D | Melville captain | Paula Gamache |
| 8 Oct 2006 | 65A | Jezebel’s husband | Fred Piscop |
| 11 Apr 2006 | 21A | Melville captain | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| 6 Apr 2006 | 1D | One-legged literary character | Ed Early |
| 24 Feb 2006 | 55D | Starbuck’s orderer | Manny Nosowsky |
| 4 Dec 2005 | 37D | Queequeg’s captain | Eric Berlin and Craig Kasper |
| 9 Oct 2005 | 50A | Captain of literature | Kyle Mahowald |
| 23 Aug 2005 | 10A | Captain of the Pequod | Holden Baker and Nancy Salomon |
| 8 Aug 2005 | 27D | “Moby Dick” captain | Harvey Estes |
| 14 Sep 2004 | 57D | “Moby Dick” captain | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| 26 Jul 2004 | 39D | “Moby-Dick” captain | Bernice Gordon |
| 5 May 2004 | 35A | Ishmael’s skipper | Nancy Salomon |
| 24 Apr 2004 | 33D | “A grand, ungodly, godlike man” in fiction | Patrick Berry |
| 26 Mar 2004 | 5D | Obsessed captain | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| 13 Mar 2004 | 4D | Obsessive hunter of fiction | Harvey Estes |
| 19 Jan 2004 | 54D | Ishmael’s captain | Zach Jesse |
| 22 Oct 2003 | 1D | Melville mariner | Judy Cole |
| 1 Sep 2003 | 1A | “Moby-Dick” captain | Barry Silk |
| 6 Aug 2003 | 6D | Pequod skipper | Jay Livingston |
| 7 Jul 2003 | 26A | “Moby Dick” whaler | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| 17 Jun 2003 | 1A | Pequod captain | Susan Harrington Smith |
| 29 May 2003 | 42A | Whale watcher | Jim Page |
| 25 Mar 2003 | 27D | Pequod captain | John Greenman |
| 25 Jan 2003 | 11D | Captain for Stubb and Fedallah | Patrick Berry |
| 16 Oct 2002 | 2D | 1956 Peck role | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 9 May 2002 | 1A | Melville megalomaniac | Cathy Millhauser |
| 21 Oct 2001 | 78D | Fictional hunter | Robert H. Wolfe |
| 2 Apr 2001 | 4D | Captain with a whalebone leg | Peter Gordon |
| 26 Mar 2001 | 53D | Captain of the Pequod | Gregory E. Paul |
| 7 Feb 2001 | 49D | Fictional whaler | Kent Lorentzen |
| 17 Oct 2000 | 14A | Whaler of fiction | Peter Gordon |
| 17 Sep 2000 | 74A | King of Kings | Nelson Hardy |
| 2 Jul 2000 | 20A | Starbuck’s skipper | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 28 Mar 2000 | 37D | Ishmael’s captain | Fred Piscop |
| 19 Mar 2000 | 22A | Pequod captain | Greg Staples |
| 26 Feb 2000 | 46D | 1956 Gregory Peck role | Bob Klahn |
| 4 Feb 2000 | 26D | Jezebel’s husband | Dana Motley |
| 1 Sep 1999 | 28D | Peck role of 1956 | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 25 Jul 1999 | 3D | Starbuck’s superior | Charles M. Deber |
| 22 Apr 1999 | 15A | King who married Jezebel | David J. Kahn |
| 21 Apr 1999 | 58A | Captain with the “overbearing dignity of some mighty woe” | Mary E. Brindamour |
| 18 Apr 1999 | 114D | Jezebel’s husband | Frank Longo |
| 8 Mar 1999 | 10A | Fictional captain with an ivory leg | Gregory E. Paul |
| 26 Jan 1999 | 4D | Captain of the Pequod | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 11 Nov 1998 | 44D | Famed whaler | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 28 May 1998 | 55D | King in I Kings | Patrick Jordan |
| 26 May 1998 | 1A | Moby-Dick chaser | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| 15 Mar 1998 | 68A | Queequeg’s captain | Frank Longo |
| 21 Dec 1997 | 75A | Starbuck’s captain | Frances Hansen |
| 17 Dec 1997 | 1A | Obsessive whaler | Michael S. Maurer |
| 23 Nov 1997 | 62D | Whale of a captain? | Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague |
| 24 Aug 1997 | 1D | 1956 Peck role | Michael S. Maurer |
| 7 Jul 1997 | 2D | Captain obsessed | Gregory E. Paul |
| 29 Oct 1996 | 1A | Pequod skipper | R. J. Hartman |
| 15 Sep 1996 | 71A | Subject of Ishmael’s narration | A. K. Justin |
| 7 Mar 1996 | 53D | Captain of literature | C. Millhauser |
| 14 Dec 1995 | 1D | Husband of Jezebel | Matt Gaffney |
| 31 Jul 1995 | 54A | Pequod’s captain | Elizabeth Gorski |
| 19 Jun 1995 | 11D | Melville hero | Gregory E. Paul |
| 5 Feb 1995 | 47A | Jezebel’s husband | Frank A. Longo |
| 20 Nov 1994 | 20A | Pequod captain | Matt Gaffney |
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