BOT is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for BOT in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "BOT" answer was first appeared in "14 Oct 1995" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Sci. of flora". It was authored by Alex K. Justin. Recently, the "BOT" answer has been used for "10 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Customer service “assistant,” at times". It was authored by Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen. "BOT" appeared 41 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "BOT" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2023 | 51D | Customer service “assistant,” at times | Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen |
| 29 Oct 2023 | 37A | Captcha target | Alina Abidi |
| 11 Apr 2023 | 40A | Web crawler, of a sort | Taylor Johnson and Jeff Chen |
| 15 Feb 2023 | 32A | Automated tweeter | Sean Ziebarth |
| 27 Dec 2022 | 65D | Nonhuman internet “account holder” | Lynn Lempel |
| 4 Jul 2022 | 40D | Program that spits out spam | Bruce Haight |
| 6 Aug 2021 | 39A | Poster impostor? | Seth A. Abel |
| 3 Jun 2021 | 9D | Phony internet persona, often | Kyra Wilson and Sophia Maymudes |
| 9 Feb 2021 | 45A | Spam caller, e.g. | Colin Ernst |
| 31 Aug 2020 | 10D | Spam spewer | Anne Marie Crinnion |
| 2 Aug 2020 | 53A | Spam sender | David Levinson Wilk |
| 29 May 2020 | 47A | One making a malicious attack, maybe | Sam Ezersky |
| 23 Oct 2019 | 35D | Nonhuman Twitter account | Jennifer Nutt |
| 31 Jul 2019 | 35D | Spam generator | Dan Caprera |
| 9 Jul 2019 | 41A | Automated producer of spam | Bruce Haight |
| 1 Jul 2019 | 50A | Message-spewing program | Damon Gulczynski |
| 14 Jan 2018 | 98A | Frequent Twitter poster | Joel Fagliano |
| 26 Aug 2017 | 38D | Many an online nuisance | Peter Wentz |
| 7 Jul 2017 | 42D | What may have a strong net effect? | Andy Kravis |
| 12 Jun 2017 | 46D | Web crawler | Dan Margolis |
| 6 Mar 2017 | 32D | Droid | Susan Gelfand |
| 2 Jan 2017 | 9D | Web crawler, e.g. | Chuck Deodene |
| 19 May 2016 | 22A | Turing test participant | Morton J. Mendelson |
| 12 Mar 2015 | 16A | Certain sci-fi fighter | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| 27 Feb 2015 | 19A | Google worker | Julian Lim |
| 31 Mar 2014 | 10A | Droid | Robert Cirillo |
| 12 Jan 2014 | 46A | Bit of Google programming | Andrew Chaikin |
| 9 Jun 2013 | 103D | Ending with spam | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 25 Aug 2012 | 1D | Web crawler | Caleb Madison |
| 5 Jun 2012 | 34A | Sci-fi sidekick, maybe | Sharon Delorme |
| 9 May 2012 | 4D | Autonomous computer program | Eshan Mitra |
| 23 Nov 2009 | 11D | Droid | Ben Pall |
| 29 Jun 2009 | 52D | Automaton, for short | Paula Gamache |
| 23 Jul 2008 | 26A | Sci-fi sidekick, maybe | Henry Quillen |
| 4 Jun 2008 | 28D | Science fair creation, briefly | Billie Truitt |
| 10 Mar 2008 | 39D | Droid | Ken Bessette |
| 8 Apr 2007 | 41A | Plant sci. | Byron Walden |
| 13 Sep 2006 | 21A | 9-Across, e.g., informally | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| 13 Jun 2005 | 25A | Study of plants: Abbr. | Earl W. Reed |
| 10 Nov 2001 | 45D | ‘Droid | William I. Johnston |
| 14 Oct 1995 | 25A | Sci. of flora | Alex K. Justin |
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