AKA is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for AKA in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "AKA" answer was first appeared in "20 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Police blotter abbr. (3)". It was authored by Norma Steinberg. Recently, the "AKA" answer has been used for "6 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Handle letters (2)". It was authored by Peter A. Collins and Bruce Haight. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hints: "Letters before an alias (19)", "Alias (17)", "Letters between two names (6)", "Rap sheet letters (9)", "Rap sheet abbr. (8)". "AKA" appeared 193 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "AKA" word.
Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
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6 Dec 2023 | 35A | Handle letters | Peter A. Collins and Bruce Haight |
9 Oct 2023 | 7D | Letters before an alias | Zachary David Levy |
2 Aug 2023 | 38D | Alias letters | Barbara Lin |
16 May 2023 | 58A | Letters before a criminal’s alias, maybe | Katherine Baicker and Adam Wagner |
1 Mar 2023 | 21A | Lead-in to an alias | Aaron M. Rosenberg |
6 Dec 2022 | 35D | Alias inits. | Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu |
5 Dec 2022 | 19A | Letters on a wanted poster | Tracy Gray |
26 Nov 2022 | 59D | The first Black American sorority, in brief | Kanyin Ajayi |
7 Oct 2022 | 24D | Connector of two names | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
23 Sep 2022 | 39A | Rapper Megan Thee Stallion ___ Tina Snow | Erik Agard |
13 Aug 2022 | 40D | Going by, in brief | John Westwig |
8 Aug 2022 | 58A | Letters preceding an alias | Kathy Lowden |
29 Jul 2022 | 24D | Lead-in to a street name, perhaps | Robyn Weintraub |
28 Apr 2022 | 21A | Letters before an alternate name | Pao Roy |
28 Feb 2022 | 46A | Letters before an alias | Zach Sherwin and Andrea Carla Michaels |
4 Feb 2022 | 1A | Letters between two names | Joseph Greenbaum |
19 Nov 2021 | 33D | Black sorority with 300,000+ members, in brief | John Hawksley |
2 Sep 2021 | 21A | Link between two names | David W. Tuffs |
25 Jul 2021 | 119A | Letters before an alias | Chandi Deitmer |
8 Jun 2021 | 38A | Lead-in to an alias | Christopher Adams |
9 Apr 2021 | 55D | Kamala Harris’s college sorority, for short | Jamey Smith |
31 Jan 2021 | 10D | Pseudonym lead-in | Jim Hilger |
30 Jan 2021 | 3D | America’s first historically Black sorority, in brief | Nam Jin Yoon |
4 Nov 2020 | 63D | Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor ___ Lorde | Jack Murtagh |
23 Oct 2020 | 41A | Melissa Jefferson ___ Lizzo | Robyn Weintraub |
1 Sep 2020 | 2D | Letters on a “Wanted” poster | David Steinberg |
31 Aug 2020 | 67A | Letters before an assumed name | Anne Marie Crinnion |
21 Jul 2020 | 66D | Lead-in to an alias | Zhouqin Burnikel |
31 May 2020 | 40A | Alias letters | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
28 Mar 2020 | 60A | Alias | Erik Agard |
18 Mar 2020 | 59A | Abbr. before an alias | Ricky Cruz |
15 Mar 2020 | 10D | Pseudonymously | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
25 Nov 2019 | 26D | Letters before an alias | Daniel Mauer |
15 Nov 2019 | 37A | Indication of another name | Debbie Ellerin |
29 Oct 2019 | 23A | Letters next to an alias | Evan Mahnken |
23 Oct 2019 | 63D | Letters in front of an alias | Jennifer Nutt |
10 Oct 2019 | 64D | Shawn Corey Carter ___ Jay-Z | Tracy Gray |
11 Aug 2019 | 13A | William H. Bonney ___ Billy the Kid | Alex Eaton-Salners |
16 May 2019 | 56D | Letters between two names | Jeff Chen |
20 Mar 2019 | 40A | Abbr. in a criminal profile | Erik Agard, Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
2 Dec 2018 | 99A | Farrokh Bulsara ___ Freddie Mercury | Paul Coulter |
26 Oct 2018 | 9D | Going by | Evan Kalish |
21 Oct 2018 | 28D | First African-American sorority | Finn Vigeland |
11 Sep 2018 | 43A | Letters on a wanted poster | Timothy Polin |
13 Aug 2018 | 63D | Stephanie Clifford ___ Stormy Daniels | Lynn Lempel |
22 Jul 2018 | 8D | Alias introducer | Patrick Merrell |
13 Jun 2018 | 31A | Edward Teach ___ “Blackbeard” | Michael Hawkins |
3 Apr 2018 | 37D | Rap sheet letters | Damon Gulczynski |
14 Jan 2018 | 89A | Nicknamed | Joel Fagliano |
15 Dec 2017 | 26A | Wanted poster inits. | Jacob Stulberg |
21 Nov 2017 | 34A | Letters on a wanted poster | Brian Thomas |
19 Sep 2017 | 56A | Lead-in to an alias | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
18 Sep 2017 | 52A | Letters before a pseudonym | Tom McCoy |
3 Aug 2017 | 65A | Otherwise called | Timothy Polin |
7 Mar 2017 | 10D | Letters on a “Wanted” poster | Freddie Cheng |
23 Feb 2017 | 66A | Letters preceding a pseudonym | Jeff Chen |
22 Jan 2017 | 92A | Alias inits. | Dan Schoenholz |
18 Jan 2017 | 58D | Rap sheet letters | Matthew Sewell |
16 Jan 2017 | 54A | Abbr. before an alias | John Wrenholt |
13 Jan 2017 | 59D | Handle preceder | Andrew J. Ries |
26 Nov 2016 | 46A | Going by | Paolo Pasco |
11 Sep 2016 | 100A | Letters between two names | Ned White and George Barany |
3 Aug 2016 | 47D | Letters between names | Neville Fogarty |
26 Jun 2016 | 64D | Police blotter letters | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen |
19 Jun 2016 | 23A | Handle letters | David Woolf |
23 Feb 2016 | 15A | Characters on a wanted poster | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
18 Jan 2016 | 30A | Alias | Kathy Wienberg |
17 Nov 2015 | 13D | Letters before an alias | Paula Gamache |
29 Sep 2015 | 40A | Letters before an alias | Kurt Krauss |
27 Sep 2015 | 64A | Link between two names | Tom McCoy |
25 Aug 2015 | 42A | Letters before a moniker | John E. Bennett |
12 Aug 2015 | 26A | Letters on a wanted sign | Tom McCoy |
1 Sep 2014 | 35A | Letters before an alias | Allan E. Parrish |
7 Jul 2014 | 6D | Letters before an alias | Lynn Lempel |
15 May 2014 | 65A | Going by, for short | John Lieb |
11 May 2014 | 57A | Abbreviation between two names | Peter A. Collins |
5 May 2014 | 51A | Letters on a wanted poster | Lynn Lempel |
20 Mar 2014 | 36D | Alias | Victor Barocas |
17 Feb 2014 | 29A | Letters before an alias | David Gray |
12 Feb 2014 | 15D | Letters on a perp’s record | Peter A. Collins |
1 Jan 2014 | 66A | Rap sheet letters | Peter A. Collins |
14 Nov 2013 | 12D | Otherwise called | Tom McCoy |
7 Oct 2013 | 48D | Alias letters | Amy Johnson |
8 Sep 2013 | 108A | Pseudonym preceder | Pete Muller and Sue Keefer |
27 Jun 2013 | 39A | Rap sheet abbr. | Sean Dobbin |
26 Jun 2013 | 8D | Letters between names | David Steinberg (16) and Bernice Gordon (99) |
27 May 2013 | 55A | Letters before an alias | Doug Peterson |
9 Apr 2013 | 6A | Letters before an alias | Steve Blais |
3 Jan 2013 | 25D | Alias | Bruce Haight |
19 Dec 2012 | 61D | Rap sheet entry | Mike Buckley |
20 Jun 2012 | 65D | Blotter letters | Alan Arbesfeld |
13 May 2012 | 29A | Alias | Ben Tausig |
14 Feb 2012 | 52A | Alias | Paula Gamache |
7 Feb 2012 | 61D | Alias letters | Mike Buckley |
26 Dec 2011 | 6D | Letters before an alias | Gary Cee |
23 Dec 2011 | 48D | Rap sheet abbr. | Patrick Berry |
11 Nov 2011 | 9D | Wanted letters? | Alex Vratsanos |
21 Sep 2011 | 33D | Alias | Peter A. Collins |
30 Aug 2011 | 40D | Alias | Bernice Gordon |
11 Aug 2011 | 54A | Alias | Parker Lewis |
19 Jul 2011 | 43D | Rap sheet abbr. | Mark Feldman |
6 Apr 2011 | 36D | Wanted-poster abbr. | Gareth Bain |
3 Apr 2011 | 66D | Alias initials | Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg |
17 Feb 2011 | 17A | Wanted poster abbr. | Mike Nothnagel |
23 Sep 2010 | 22A | Letters between a name and a nickname | David J. Kahn |
19 Sep 2010 | 7D | Alias | Kevin G. Der |
22 Jun 2010 | 14A | Letters on a wanted poster | Barry C. Silk |
27 Feb 2010 | 33D | Street name lead-in | Patrick John Duggan |
7 Jan 2010 | 30D | Letters between two names | Xan Vongsathorn |
2 Dec 2009 | 38A | Blotter abbr. | Jack McInturff |
4 Oct 2009 | 100A | Alias indication | Todd McClary |
12 Jul 2009 | 55D | Wanted poster letters | Alan Arbesfeld |
10 Jun 2009 | 32D | Abbr. on a blotter | Richard Silvestri |
15 Jan 2009 | 33A | Nickname preceder | Patrick Blindauer |
3 Jan 2009 | 29A | Record letters | Peter Wentz |
16 Dec 2008 | 33A | Rap sheet letters | Gail Grabowski |
10 Nov 2008 | 26D | Letters before an alias | Gail Grabowski |
10 May 2008 | 44D | Booking letters | Karen M. Tracey |
21 Mar 2008 | 34A | Letters between two names | Peter A. Collins |
12 Feb 2008 | 35A | Rap sheet letters | Deb Amlen |
26 Nov 2007 | 32D | Letters before an alias | Andrea Carla Michaels |
16 Nov 2007 | 57A | Letters before a street name | Chuck Deodene |
4 Nov 2007 | 6D | Sometimes called | Bob Klahn |
15 Jul 2007 | 96A | Nickname preceder | Patrick Berry |
15 Jun 2007 | 23A | Rap sheet abbr. | Nancy Joline |
5 Jun 2007 | 53A | Letters before a pseudonym | Barry C. Silk |
16 Mar 2007 | 23A | Alternate name indicator | Eric Berlin |
12 Mar 2007 | 24D | Letters before an alias | Kevin Der |
27 Dec 2006 | 39A | Nicknamed | Manny Nosowsky |
31 Aug 2006 | 61D | Pseudonym lead-in | Patrick Merrell |
25 Apr 2006 | 40A | Letters between two names | Kevan Choset |
17 Mar 2006 | 10D | Booking letters | John Farmer |
30 Jan 2006 | 55D | Alias, for short | Adam G. Perl |
11 Jan 2006 | 10A | Rap sheet letters | Mel Rosen |
13 Nov 2005 | 27A | It may precede a nickname | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
8 Nov 2005 | 66A | Alias | Gail Grabowski and Nancy Salomon |
15 Aug 2005 | 61A | Letters before an alias | Lynn Lempel |
12 May 2005 | 56A | Alias | Manny Nosowsky |
10 May 2005 | 51A | Alias preceder | Nancy Salomon |
5 Sep 2004 | 40D | Rap sheet listing | Patrick Merrell |
12 Aug 2004 | 52A | Police blotter letters | David J. Kahn |
18 Mar 2004 | 31A | Police blotter abbr. | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
23 Feb 2004 | 32D | Alias | Anne Garellick |
22 Jan 2004 | 38D | Alias | Roy Leban |
16 Oct 2003 | 56A | Letters on an F.B.I. list | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
7 Jul 2003 | 54A | Letters before an alias | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
29 Apr 2003 | 25A | Alias initials | Norma Johnson |
4 Mar 2003 | 12D | Alias | Alan Arbesfeld |
2 Mar 2003 | 101A | Eminem ___ Slim Shady | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
23 Jan 2003 | 25A | Alias | Cathy Millhauser |
4 Dec 2002 | 11D | Alias letters | Richard Hughes |
20 Nov 2002 | 11D | Wanted letters | Manny Nosowsky |
3 Sep 2002 | 62A | Rap sheet abbr. | Don West |
5 Jul 2002 | 4D | Letters on a poster | Manny Nosowsky |
5 Jun 2002 | 1D | Blotter letters | Richard Silvestri |
5 May 2002 | 36D | Police sheet letters | Patrick Berry |
7 Oct 2001 | 27A | Rap sheet abbr. | Patrick Berry |
30 Sep 2001 | 59A | Alias preceder | Con Pederson |
18 Jul 2001 | 11D | Rap sheet shorthand | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
11 Jul 2001 | 11D | Blotter letters | Richard Silvestri |
25 Feb 2001 | 2D | Letters on a police report | Greg Staples |
3 Jan 2001 | 58A | Wanted-poster letters | Fred Piscop |
23 Sep 2000 | 34D | Letters before a name | Rich Norris |
28 May 2000 | 99D | Blotter letters | Richard Silvestri |
1 May 2000 | 35D | Abbr. before a 34-Across | Gregory E. Paul |
18 Jan 2000 | 59D | Wanted-poster letters | Nancy Salomon |
7 Jan 2000 | 43A | Wanted letters | Manny Nosowsky |
11 Dec 1999 | 56D | Cognomen preceder | William S. Cotter |
22 Jun 1999 | 29A | Letters introducing some names | Nancy Salomon |
3 May 1999 | 7D | Letters before an alias | Nancy Kavanaugh |
25 Dec 1998 | 26A | Sobriquet preceder | Ed Pegg Jr. |
25 Nov 1998 | 44A | Rap sheet letters | Rich Norris |
31 Aug 1998 | 38D | Wanted poster abbr. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
22 Jul 1998 | 43D | Dossier letters | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
10 Apr 1998 | 34A | Other name indicator | Manny Nosowsky |
15 Feb 1998 | 31A | Rap sheet letters | Rich Norris |
28 Dec 1997 | 128D | Alias | Matt Gaffney |
20 Sep 1997 | 27D | “___ Cassius Clay” (1970 documentary) | Bob Klahn |
23 Jun 1997 | 6A | Abbr. before an alias | Shannon Burns |
16 Mar 1996 | 18A | Letters in an F.B.I. file | G. R. Ferguson |
15 Feb 1996 | 51A | Rap sheet abbr. | Matt Gaffney |
13 Dec 1995 | 40A | Wanted-poster letters | Ernie Furtado |
3 Dec 1995 | 37A | Blotter letters | Martin Schneider |
25 Mar 1995 | 2D | Alias lead-in | Walter Webb |
25 Jan 1995 | 38D | Police blotter abbr. | Norma Steinberg |
30 Dec 1994 | 11D | Police-blotter letters | Wayne Robert Williams |
5 Nov 1994 | 29D | Indication of another name | Manny Nosowsky |
19 Oct 1994 | 15A | Rap sheet abbr. | D.J. Listort |
19 Sep 1994 | 33D | Letters before an alias | Wayne Robert Williams |
11 May 1994 | 39A | Most-wanted poster letters | Harvey Estes |
3 Apr 1994 | 5D | Rap-sheet letters | Ernie Furtado |
7 Jan 1994 | 46A | Wanted-poster abbr. | Fred Piscop |
20 Dec 1993 | 60A | Police blotter abbr. | Norma Steinberg |
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