CAL is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for CAL in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "CAL" answer was first appeared in "18 Feb 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "U.C.L.A. rival". It was authored by Manny Nosowsky. Recently, the "CAL" answer has been used for "9 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Part of U.C.S.F.: Abbr.". It was authored by Doug Peterson and Christina Iverson. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Low-___ (7)". "CAL" appeared 143 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "CAL" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Dec 2023 | 44A | Part of U.C.S.F.: Abbr. | Doug Peterson and Christina Iverson |
| 29 Oct 2023 | 74A | Nev. neighbor | Alina Abidi |
| 30 May 2023 | 19A | Nickname that might drop -vin or -eb | Kathryn Ladner |
| 22 May 2023 | 21A | “Iron Man” Ripken of baseball | Äặng Quang Thắng |
| 23 Feb 2023 | 57A | Berkeley’s Bears, in brief | Joe Deeney |
| 8 Feb 2023 | 42A | The Golden Bears of the N.C.A.A., familiarly | Chase Dittrich |
| 5 Oct 2022 | 37D | “Silent” prez | Jason Reich |
| 4 Oct 2022 | 42A | Golden Bears’ sch. | Joe Deeney |
| 10 Sep 2022 | 51D | Home of the Golden Bears, informally | Kameron Austin Collins |
| 5 Jun 2022 | 46D | Follower of “So” or “lo” | Christina Iverson and Katie Hale |
| 4 May 2022 | 19A | Berkeley, familiarly | Eric Bornstein |
| 6 Feb 2022 | 8D | Diet Coke doesn’t have a single one: Abbr. | Stephen McCarthy |
| 1 Aug 2021 | 8D | Pac-12 school, informally | Matthew Stock |
| 6 Jun 2021 | 34A | Schedule keeper: Abbr. | Robyn Weintraub |
| 27 May 2021 | 57D | The Golden Bears of the N.C.A.A., familiarly | Barbara Lin |
| 30 Sep 2020 | 55D | Berkeley school, for short | Erik Agard and Andy Kravis |
| 28 Sep 2020 | 62D | Ripken who played a record 2,632 consecutive major-league games | Lynn Lempel |
| 22 Sep 2020 | 41D | Low-___ | Jeremy Newton |
| 8 Sep 2020 | 29D | Berkeley school, informally | Kevin Christian and Brad Wilber |
| 29 Aug 2020 | 1D | ___ State (school with 23 campuses) | Michael Hawkins |
| 24 Jun 2020 | 59D | Old presidential nickname | Joe Deeney |
| 19 Apr 2020 | 22A | Low-___ | Jack Mowat and Jeff Chen |
| 6 Mar 2020 | 13D | Low-___ | Caitlin Reid |
| 3 Mar 2020 | 7D | Record-setting Ripken | Lynn Lempel |
| 11 Jan 2020 | 47A | ___-Mex (cuisine) | Andrew J. Ries |
| 7 Sep 2019 | 21A | Unit equivalent to 4.184 joules: Abbr. | Trenton Charlson |
| 1 Jul 2019 | 28A | Diamond great Ripken | Damon Gulczynski |
| 17 Dec 2018 | 1A | Baseball’s record-setting Ripken | Brian Thomas and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 24 Nov 2018 | 47A | Stanford rival, informally | David Steinberg |
| 6 Nov 2018 | 16A | Ripken with a record 2,632 consecutive games played | Alan Southworth and Yacob Yonas |
| 3 Jun 2018 | 78D | State with five teams in the 84-Across: Abbr. | David J. Kahn |
| 29 Apr 2018 | 58D | ___ Poly | Peter Wentz |
| 8 Mar 2018 | 22A | Golden Bears’ school, familiarly | Jim Quinlan |
| 22 Feb 2018 | 52A | Orioles legend Ripken | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 19 Feb 2018 | 23A | Home for Nixon and Reagan: Abbr. | Bruce Haight |
| 28 Jan 2018 | 70A | One side in college football’s “Big Game” | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen |
| 6 Aug 2017 | 96A | Berkeley institution, briefly | Patrick Berry |
| 3 Aug 2017 | 16D | Nutritional label abbr. | Timothy Polin |
| 5 Mar 2017 | 8D | Low-___ | Timothy Polin |
| 24 Jan 2017 | 5D | “Silent” prez | John R. O’Brien |
| 3 Mar 2016 | 22A | What the second letter of 17-Down stands for: Abbr. | Andrew Zhou |
| 3 Jan 2016 | 42A | Golden Bears’ sch. | David Woolf |
| 22 Dec 2015 | 63D | Silent ___ (presidential nickname) | Tom McCoy |
| 15 Aug 2015 | 30D | One side in college football’s annual Big Game, informally | Jeff Chen |
| 16 Jul 2015 | 1D | Old White House nickname | Paula Gamache |
| 7 May 2015 | 24D | Berkeley campus nickname | Tracy Gray |
| 2 Feb 2015 | 20D | Home to L.A. and S.F. | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| 6 Apr 2014 | 93A | Stanford rival, informally | Patrick Berry |
| 24 Dec 2013 | 62D | Low-___ (for weight-watchers) | David J. Kahn |
| 10 Dec 2013 | 64D | Berkeley school, informally | Bill Thompson |
| 8 Oct 2013 | 44D | Baseball’s Ripken | Tim Croce |
| 23 Sep 2013 | 57D | Where L.A. is | Susan Gelfand |
| 30 Apr 2013 | 66A | Silent ___ (White House nickname) | Lynn Lempel |
| 22 Feb 2013 | 27A | One of Steinbeck’s twins | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| 21 Oct 2012 | 45A | Ripken with a 17-year consecutive game streak | Caleb Rasmussen |
| 21 Aug 2012 | 45A | Silent ___ (Coolidge nickname) | Josh Knapp |
| 6 Aug 2012 | 9D | Baseball’s record-setting Ripken | Lynn Lempel |
| 4 Aug 2012 | 5D | Presidential nickname | Jim Page |
| 19 Jan 2012 | 62D | Home of 19-Across: Abbr. | Derek Bowman and Sarah Keller |
| 20 Nov 2011 | 54A | Dieter’s unit: Abbr. | Trip Payne |
| 21 Jul 2011 | 43A | Food label abbr. | Michael Sharp |
| 17 Jul 2011 | 84D | “Silent” one | Daniel A. Finan |
| 26 Jun 2011 | 39A | Berkeley campus nickname | David Levinson Wilk |
| 20 Nov 2010 | 31A | ___ Poly, school nickname | Joe DiPietro |
| 20 Jul 2010 | 40D | Low-___ (for dieters) | Ed Sessa |
| 18 Jun 2010 | 41A | “East of Eden” twin | Karen M. Tracey |
| 10 Jun 2010 | 26A | Food label abbr. | Mike Nothnagel |
| 28 Feb 2010 | 35D | Nev. neighbor | Yaakov Bendavid |
| 30 Oct 2009 | 21A | One of Steinbeck’s twins | David Levinson Wilk |
| 26 Jul 2009 | 142A | Stanford’s Big Game rival | Kevin G. Der |
| 12 Apr 2009 | 95D | Political columnist Thomas | Eric Berlin |
| 1 Apr 2009 | 12D | “Silent” prez | Ed Stein and Paula Gamache |
| 10 Sep 2008 | 33A | Stanford rival, familiarly | Lucas Gaviotis Whitestone |
| 15 Jun 2008 | 44D | Low-___ | Jeremy Newton |
| 7 Apr 2008 | 5D | Iron Man Ripken of the Orioles | Randall J. Hartman |
| 9 Feb 2008 | 4D | Title robot in an Isaac Asimov short story | Shannon Burns |
| 2 Dec 2007 | 105A | Ore. neighbor | Seth A. Abel |
| 28 Oct 2007 | 69A | 2007 Hall of Fame inductee Ripken | Ben Tausig |
| 2 Sep 2007 | 18D | Oriole Ripken | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| 18 May 2007 | 47A | Political columnist Thomas | David Quarfoot |
| 25 Mar 2007 | 14D | 1920’s White House name | Fred Piscop |
| 2 Feb 2007 | 22A | ___ Tech | David J. Kahn |
| 16 Nov 2006 | 44D | Baseball’s Ripken | Kevin Donovan |
| 10 Oct 2006 | 68A | Where S.F. is | Tyler Hinman |
| 7 Aug 2006 | 37A | Ripken who played 2,632 straight games | Lynn Lempel |
| 9 Apr 2006 | 85A | Part of the W. Coast | Paula Gamache |
| 17 Feb 2006 | 1D | Political columnist Thomas | Trip Payne |
| 31 Dec 2005 | 30A | ___-Mex | Robert H. Wolfe |
| 21 Dec 2005 | 51A | ___ Poly | David J. Kahn |
| 11 Sep 2005 | 49D | Berkeley university nickname | Patrick Berry |
| 9 Aug 2005 | 34A | “Silent” prez | Victor Fleming |
| 14 Jun 2005 | 37A | ___-Mex cuisine | Sarah Keller |
| 8 Jun 2005 | 22D | “Silent” prez | Richard Chisholm |
| 7 Oct 2004 | 46D | Berkeley campus, for short | Patrick Merrell |
| 21 Mar 2004 | 55A | Stanford rival, familiarly | Roy Leban |
| 16 Mar 2004 | 39D | Record-setting Ripken | Ron Sweet |
| 29 Feb 2004 | 68D | Old White House nickname | Patrick Merrell |
| 22 Feb 2004 | 94D | Low-___ | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 15 Dec 2003 | 16A | President Coolidge | Sarah Keller |
| 2 Oct 2003 | 51A | ___ Poly | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 6 Jul 2003 | 99D | White House nickname | Robert H. Wolfe |
| 6 Jun 2003 | 42A | Pac. borderer | Randolph Ross |
| 11 Apr 2003 | 5D | Baseball/football Hall-of-Famer Hubbard | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 7 Apr 2003 | 33A | “Silent” prez | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| 16 Feb 2003 | 2D | Nutritional fig. | Charles M. Deber |
| 15 Jan 2003 | 6D | Nutritional fig. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 25 Dec 2002 | 60A | Lo-___ | Patrick Merrell |
| 20 Oct 2002 | 13D | Old White House nickname | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| 25 Aug 2002 | 50A | ___ Tech | Randolph Ross |
| 17 Jul 2002 | 28D | “Silent” prez | Peter Gordon |
| 4 Jun 2002 | 50A | Iron man Ripken | Matthew J. Koceich |
| 11 Nov 2001 | 81D | Pac Ten school, informally | Joe DiPietro |
| 21 Aug 2001 | 29D | Pres. Coolidge | Sarah Keller |
| 1 Jul 2001 | 56A | Trask twin in “East of Eden” | Manny Nosowsky |
| 15 Apr 2001 | 71A | Low-___ | Richard Silvestri |
| 28 Feb 2001 | 1A | White House nickname | A. J. Santora |
| 15 Nov 2000 | 11D | Baltimore’s Ripken | Chuck Deodene |
| 5 Oct 2000 | 64D | Double Hall-of-Famer Hubbard | Cathy Millhauser |
| 10 Sep 2000 | 27A | Columnist Thomas | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 5 Aug 2000 | 35D | ___ Poly | Manny Nosowsky |
| 30 Apr 2000 | 19D | Ariz. neighbor | Cathy Millhauser |
| 22 Oct 1999 | 49A | 41-Across borderer: Abbr. | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| 6 Oct 1999 | 60D | Hall-of-Famer Hubbard | Fred Piscop |
| 23 Aug 1999 | 23A | Ripken of the Orioles | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| 2 Aug 1999 | 15A | Ripken of the Orioles | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| 28 Nov 1998 | 39A | Aron’s twin in “East of Eden” | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| 24 Jun 1998 | 63D | Old White House nickname | Richard Silvestri |
| 28 Feb 1998 | 28D | ___ Tech | David J. Kahn |
| 23 Dec 1997 | 11A | Southern ___ | Fred Piscop |
| 31 Aug 1997 | 102A | 1920’s White House nickname | David J. Kahn |
| 28 Apr 1997 | 10D | Baseball’s Ripken | Peter Gordon |
| 2 Mar 1997 | 4D | Hall-of-Famer Hubbard | Harvey Estes |
| 31 Jan 1997 | 57A | The Lone Eagle’s monogram | M. Gaffney |
| 16 Nov 1996 | 36A | Political commentator ___ Thomas | J. Page |
| 30 Jul 1996 | 39D | Baseball’s Ripken | E. Gorski |
| 13 May 1996 | 57D | Pres. Coolidge, informally | S. L. Robbins |
| 4 May 1996 | 21A | “East of Eden” protagonist | B. Klahn |
| 18 Jan 1996 | 56D | Ripken Jr. or Sr. | C. Deodene |
| 5 Dec 1995 | 54D | It follows no- or low- | Robert Katz |
| 14 Oct 1995 | 26A | Ariz. neighbor | Alex K. Justin |
| 7 Dec 1994 | 63D | Silent ___ (20’s moniker) | Chet Currier |
| 24 Sep 1994 | 1D | 31st state: Abbr. | Manny Nosowsky |
| 18 Feb 1994 | 34A | U.C.L.A. rival | Manny Nosowsky |
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