DNA is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for DNA in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "DNA" answer was first appeared in "10 Feb 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Genes material (2)". It was authored by Manny Nosowsky. Recently, the "DNA" answer has been used for "5 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Cheek swab material". It was authored by Nate Cardin. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Genetic stuff (8)". "DNA" appeared 224 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "DNA" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Dec 2023 | 14A | Cheek swab material | Nate Cardin |
| 3 Oct 2023 | 32A | Crime lab evidence | Troy Laedtke |
| 19 Sep 2023 | 54D | Double-helix molecule | Gia Bosko |
| 31 Aug 2023 | 41D | Inherent nature, figuratively | Freddie Cheng |
| 27 Jul 2023 | 60D | Code material | Guilherme Gilioli |
| 25 Jun 2023 | 74A | Double-helix material | John Westwig |
| 28 May 2023 | 117D | Focus of the Human Genome Project | Chandi Deitmer and Taylor Johnson |
| 2 May 2023 | 30A | Stuff spliced in a lab | Aimee Lucido |
| 1 Apr 2023 | 29A | Cell info | Wyna Liu and Joel Fagliano |
| 29 Nov 2022 | 6D | Molecule whose structure was discovered by Rosalind Franklin | David Rockow |
| 16 Aug 2022 | 45D | Fitting abbr. hidden in “second nature” | Sue Fracker |
| 23 May 2022 | 63D | 23andMe sample | Simon Marotte |
| 8 May 2022 | 102D | It makes you you | Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer |
| 30 Mar 2022 | 49A | Strands in a cell | Jack Murtagh |
| 20 Mar 2022 | 111D | Crispr material | Brad Wiegmann |
| 14 Mar 2022 | 43D | Genetic stuff | Stephen Hiltner |
| 24 Feb 2022 | 27D | What makes you unique | Jake Halperin |
| 30 Jan 2022 | 89A | Kind of test | Ross Trudeau |
| 10 Dec 2021 | 54D | Subj. of supercoiling | Joe DiPietro |
| 26 Nov 2021 | 54A | Its structure was evidenced by Photo 51, an X-ray captured in 1952 | Kate Hawkins |
| 1 Oct 2021 | 6D | It’s self-replicating | Jim Horne and Jeff Chen |
| 16 Sep 2021 | 37A | Something found in strands | Kevin Patterson |
| 10 Jun 2021 | 59D | It’s stranded in a cell | Sheldon Polonsky |
| 19 May 2021 | 45A | ___ lab | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| 10 Apr 2021 | 11D | Cellular data plan? | Evans Clinchy |
| 14 Dec 2020 | 33A | It has a double helix | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau |
| 21 Nov 2020 | 57D | 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric “I was born like this” | Sam Ezersky |
| 14 Nov 2020 | 60D | Forensic science subject | Emily Carroll and Erik Agard |
| 8 Oct 2020 | 21D | Family inheritance? | Francesca Goldston and Jeff Chen |
| 15 Aug 2020 | 49A | It self-replicates | Joe DiPietro |
| 8 Aug 2020 | 22D | It has four bases | Brooke Husic and Sid Sivakumar |
| 7 Jul 2020 | 29A | It helps make you you | Kevin Patterson |
| 14 May 2020 | 32A | Cellular plan? | Michael Schlossberg |
| 22 Feb 2020 | 54D | ___ test | Trenton Charlson |
| 27 Jan 2020 | 32D | Substance coiled in a double helix | Timothy Polin |
| 28 Dec 2019 | 51D | Body builder? | Robyn Weintraub |
| 20 Sep 2019 | 6D | Passed-down code | Luke Vaughn |
| 13 Aug 2019 | 40A | Kind of testing done at Ancestry.com | Lynn Lempel |
| 17 Jul 2019 | 55D | Molecule with A, C, T and G | Ada Nicolle |
| 23 Jun 2019 | 87A | It’s replicated during mitosis | David Liben-Nowell and Victor Barocas |
| 6 Jun 2019 | 65A | Subject of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine | Fred Piscop |
| 21 May 2019 | 22D | Material in a cell’s nucleus | Evan Kalish |
| 24 Mar 2019 | 20D | Forensic material | Trenton Charlson |
| 18 Feb 2019 | 61D | Crime lab material | Leslie Rogers and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 16 Dec 2018 | 88D | With 93-Down, half of a double helix | Sam Ezersky |
| 9 Dec 2018 | 119D | Bit of forensic data | Ross Trudeau |
| 24 Jul 2018 | 66D | Subject of this puzzle | Jonathan M. Kaye |
| 13 Mar 2018 | 27D | Double-helix molecule | Carl Worth |
| 10 Mar 2018 | 32A | Modern test subject | Ryan McCarty |
| 9 Mar 2018 | 58D | Helicases split it | Neville Fogarty and Doug Peterson |
| 4 Feb 2018 | 119D | What makes you you? | David Levinson Wilk |
| 26 Jan 2018 | 19A | ___ sample | Caleb Madison |
| 2 Oct 2017 | 49A | Strands in a cell? | Trenton Charlson |
| 27 Sep 2017 | 54A | Evidence in paternity suits | Jacob Stulberg |
| 18 Sep 2017 | 24A | Crucial biological molecule | Tom McCoy |
| 26 Jun 2017 | 19A | Evidence for determining paternity | Brian Greer |
| 5 Jun 2017 | 63D | Paternity identifier | Paul Coulter |
| 5 Feb 2017 | 25A | Geneticist’s study | Sam Trabucco |
| 14 Dec 2016 | 45A | Helical stuff | Alan DeLoriea |
| 7 Nov 2016 | 36A | Genetic code carrier | Bruce Haight |
| 18 Oct 2016 | 58D | Subject for Watson and Crick | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| 29 Sep 2016 | 40A | Part of a modern police database | Jonathan M. Kaye |
| 1 Sep 2016 | 38D | Forensic material | Ben Tausig |
| 29 Jun 2016 | 59D | Modern aid in anthropology | John Lampkin |
| 5 Jun 2016 | 56A | Material in mitochondria | Tom McCoy |
| 22 May 2016 | 89A | Little, twisted part of us all? | Victor Barocas and Andy Kravis |
| 21 May 2016 | 40A | It has base pairs | Jason Flinn |
| 10 Feb 2016 | 60D | “CSI” evidence | John Guzzetta |
| 31 Jan 2016 | 115D | Strands in a lab | Yaakov Bendavid |
| 23 Oct 2015 | 32A | Scientific discovery of 1869 | Evan Birnholz |
| 9 Aug 2015 | 7D | Part of a forensic database | Melanie Miller |
| 5 Jul 2015 | 72A | Bio subject | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 2 Jul 2015 | 32D | Code material | Timothy Polin |
| 11 Jun 2015 | 27D | Cold case solver, maybe | Lewis E. Rothlein |
| 18 May 2015 | 65D | Genetic stuff | Gene Newman |
| 15 Jan 2015 | 41D | Code used in many court cases | Herre Schouwerwou |
| 6 Jan 2015 | 62D | Molecule hidden in 4-, 11-, 23-, 25- and 29-Down | Joel Fagliano |
| 14 Dec 2014 | 16A | ___ test | Jim Peredo |
| 13 Nov 2014 | 42A | Something that might be left at the scene of a crime | Tracy Gray |
| 5 Nov 2014 | 61D | “CSI” test subject | Gareth Bain |
| 3 Nov 2014 | 48A | Genetic info carrier | Janet R. Bender |
| 1 Oct 2014 | 42A | Crime lab sample | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 12 Aug 2014 | 23D | ___ lab | Robyn Weintraub |
| 12 Jun 2014 | 29D | It has four bases | Mark Feldman |
| 8 Dec 2013 | 111D | Hair strands? | Patrick Berry |
| 6 Nov 2013 | 1D | Kind of fingerprinting | Jacob McDermott |
| 1 Nov 2013 | 19A | ID clincher | Brad Wilber |
| 29 Aug 2013 | 4D | Its code uses just G, T, A and C | Timothy Polin |
| 5 May 2013 | 56D | What makes you you? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 13 Feb 2013 | 53D | Paternity suit evidence | Richard and Judith Martin |
| 7 Feb 2013 | 15D | Test subj. | David Levinson Wilk |
| 31 Dec 2012 | 63D | Genetic stuff | Jeffrey Harris |
| 15 Aug 2012 | 54D | Evidence in paternity suits | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 6 Aug 2012 | 45A | “CSI” evidence, often | Lynn Lempel |
| 1 Jul 2012 | 94A | Building block, of sorts | Dan Schoenholz |
| 29 Feb 2012 | 22D | Strands in a cell? | Kevan Choset |
| 9 Nov 2011 | 43A | It’s part of the gene pool | Paula Gamache |
| 3 Oct 2011 | 67A | Crime lab evidence | Stanley Newman |
| 7 Aug 2011 | 104A | See 106-Across | Tony Orbach and Janie Smulyan |
| 14 Jun 2011 | 47A | Crime scene evidence | Doug Peterson and Angela Olson Halsted |
| 24 Apr 2011 | 69A | Subj. of modern mapping | Caleb Madison and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| 3 Apr 2011 | 121D | Some evidence | Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg |
| 21 Dec 2010 | 59D | Paternity suit evidence | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 14 Nov 2010 | 70A | Chain of life? | Patrick Berry |
| 31 Oct 2010 | 54A | Crime scene matter | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 17 Sep 2010 | 15D | Kind of profiling | Jonah Kagan, Brown University ’13 |
| 11 Sep 2010 | 34A | Basis of many positive IDs | Brad Wilber |
| 14 Jul 2010 | 31D | Paternity test factor | Michael Black |
| 1 Jul 2010 | 13D | “CSI” topic, often | Clive Probert |
| 3 Mar 2010 | 36A | Paternity confirmer | Peter A. Collins |
| 27 Jan 2010 | 4D | Kind of sample | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 16 Nov 2009 | 63D | Code of life | James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson |
| 16 Oct 2009 | 46A | It has four bases | Karen M. Tracey |
| 14 Oct 2009 | 33A | Essence of a person, one might say | Richard Silvestri |
| 4 Oct 2009 | 62D | Forensic ID | Todd McClary |
| 13 Sep 2009 | 123A | Genetic stuff | Todd Gross |
| 4 Aug 2009 | 58A | Genetic letters | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 11 Mar 2009 | 13D | Strand material | Caleb Madison |
| 1 Feb 2009 | 134A | Kind of sequencing | Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg |
| 17 Dec 2008 | 57D | Some evidence | John Farmer |
| 2 Nov 2008 | 78D | Modern test subj. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 19 Jul 2008 | 22A | ___ sequence | Todd McClary |
| 27 May 2008 | 9D | Double-helix material | Adam G. Perl |
| 27 Aug 2007 | 7D | Reproductive material | Steven Ginzburg |
| 24 Aug 2007 | 54D | Material at the basis of “Jurassic Park” | Patrick Berry |
| 11 Jul 2007 | 33D | Crime lab evidence | Patrick Merrell |
| 16 Jun 2007 | 31A | Passed-down strands | Joe DiPietro |
| 9 Apr 2007 | 33D | Crime scene evidence | J. K. Hummel |
| 31 Dec 2006 | 71D | Kind of test | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 26 Nov 2006 | 99A | It’s in the genes | Manny Nosowsky |
| 6 Nov 2006 | 13D | Genetic stuff | Christina Houlihan Kelly |
| 11 Oct 2006 | 65D | Kind of sample | Jack McInturff |
| 6 Oct 2006 | 54A | Kind of test | Nancy Joline |
| 3 Sep 2006 | 101A | C.S.I. evidence | Lee Glickstein and Ben Tausig |
| 31 Aug 2006 | 35A | Paternity identifier | Patrick Merrell |
| 3 Aug 2006 | 20D | Some forensic evidence | Nancy Salomon |
| 30 Jul 2006 | 130A | Strand material | Victor Fleming and Bonnie L. Gentry |
| 14 Jun 2006 | 38D | “Jurassic Park” stuff | Lisa Wiseman |
| 23 Apr 2006 | 88A | It must be in the genes | Joe DiPietro |
| 1 Feb 2006 | 36A | Crime lab evidence | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 17 Oct 2005 | 40D | Genetic stuff | Gregory E. Paul |
| 18 Sep 2005 | 1A | ___ lab | Joe DiPietro |
| 20 Aug 2005 | 30A | Paternity determiner | Patrick Berry |
| 17 Jul 2005 | 118D | Lab exam subject | David J. Kahn |
| 17 May 2005 | 4D | Crime lab stuff | Sherry O. Blackard |
| 29 Mar 2005 | 36A | Evidence in a paternity suit | Victor Fleming and Nelson Hardy |
| 23 Mar 2005 | 9D | Modern evidence | Mike Shenk |
| 27 Dec 2004 | 62D | Paternity identifier | Levi Denham |
| 3 Dec 2004 | 31D | Makeup carrier? | Michael Shteyman |
| 12 Nov 2004 | 27D | Stuff in a sequence | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Ethan Friedman |
| 7 Nov 2004 | 88A | ___ lab | Con Pederson |
| 12 Oct 2004 | 19A | Genetic material | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| 26 Sep 2004 | 102D | ___ lab | Joe DiPietro |
| 22 Aug 2004 | 65A | Forensic ID | Cathy Millhauser |
| 6 Jul 2004 | 22D | Cloning need | Matt Skoczen |
| 30 Apr 2004 | 7D | Kind of test | Kevin Hagen |
| 25 Mar 2004 | 29A | It’s stranded | David Liben-Nowell and Ryan O’Donnell |
| 7 Sep 2003 | 26A | Chain letters? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 15 Jun 2003 | 95A | Test material? | Cathy Millhauser |
| 20 Apr 2003 | 66A | Paternity test factor | Bill Zais |
| 8 Jan 2003 | 62D | Genomic matter | James Rogers |
| 29 Dec 2002 | 33A | Test material | Richard Silvestri |
| 20 Oct 2002 | 106A | Strand from a parent | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| 20 Aug 2002 | 35D | Kind of “fingerprint” | Bob Peoples |
| 26 Jul 2002 | 6D | Chain material | Manny Nosowsky |
| 3 Jul 2002 | 60D | Modern courtroom evidence | Peter Gordon |
| 4 Jun 2002 | 40D | Heredity helix | Matthew J. Koceich |
| 21 Feb 2002 | 60A | Human Genome Project topic | Peter Gordon |
| 6 Feb 2002 | 29D | Chain letters? | Joe DiPietro |
| 28 Oct 2001 | 73A | Code carrier | Michael Ashley |
| 25 Sep 2001 | 43A | Kind of testing | A. J. Santora |
| 29 Jul 2001 | 105A | Kind of test | Michael Ashley |
| 28 Jul 2001 | 58D | Genealogical info | Rich Norris |
| 6 Jul 2001 | 19A | Kind of strand | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 7 Jun 2001 | 9D | Trial evidence, sometimes | Randolph Ross |
| 13 Feb 2001 | 32D | Focus of a genome study | Michael Shteyman |
| 26 Nov 2000 | 109D | It has a twist | Patrick Berry |
| 16 Oct 2000 | 42D | Gene component | Mitch Komro |
| 19 Jul 2000 | 48A | Strands in a cell? | Philip Lew |
| 2 Jul 2000 | 70D | Modern forensic tool | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 8 May 2000 | 22D | Genetic stuff | Ed Early |
| 7 May 2000 | 60D | Bio. evidence | Patrick D. Berry |
| 22 Feb 2000 | 38A | Form of evidence, these days | Dorothy E. Donaldson |
| 19 Jan 2000 | 54D | Some trial evidence | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| 31 Oct 1999 | 107A | It may be recombinant | Frank A. Longo |
| 22 Jul 1999 | 22A | Life’s blueprint | M. Preston Sherwood |
| 18 Jul 1999 | 117D | Means of ID | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 27 May 1999 | 31A | Crime lab study | A. J. Santora |
| 15 May 1999 | 61D | Kind of test | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 9 May 1999 | 25A | Subj. of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 11 Mar 1999 | 20D | Modern means of identification | Manny Nosowsky |
| 27 Feb 1999 | 8D | Kind of test | John Scott Marrone |
| 6 Jan 1999 | 47A | Some forensic evidence | Sam Bellotto Jr. |
| 25 Nov 1998 | 31A | Kind of fingerprint | Rich Norris |
| 12 Jul 1998 | 75D | Modern-day evidence | Henry Hook |
| 26 Apr 1998 | 120D | Watson-Crick model | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| 8 Feb 1998 | 63A | Kind of test | Manny Nosowsky |
| 5 Nov 1997 | 60D | Genetic initials | A. J. Santora |
| 9 Jun 1997 | 57A | Kind of testing, in law enforcement | Thomas W. Schier |
| 30 May 1997 | 6D | Genes material | Manny Nosowsky |
| 8 Feb 1997 | 32D | Some trial evidence | G. R. Ferguson |
| 29 Dec 1996 | 73D | Kind of fingerprint | B. White |
| 22 Sep 1996 | 25D | Forensic letters | C. Millhauser |
| 30 Jun 1996 | 100A | Evidence in a paternity case | R. Norris |
| 16 Jun 1996 | 91A | Forensic science tool | N. N. Joline |
| 6 Apr 1996 | 34D | Kind of test | R. Norris |
| 31 Mar 1996 | 32A | Code carrier | J. Savage |
| 21 Mar 1996 | 29A | Some trial evidence | H. Estes |
| 23 Jan 1996 | 22D | Gene ID | B. Lubbers |
| 17 Dec 1995 | 120D | Some trial evidence | Dean Niles |
| 19 Nov 1995 | 79A | Kind of fingerprint | Cathy Millhauser |
| 17 Aug 1995 | 34D | Genetic strands | Rand H. Burns |
| 29 Jul 1995 | 45A | Kind of test | Charles E. Gersch |
| 31 Dec 1994 | 27A | Body-building stuff | Alex K. Justin |
| 16 Nov 1994 | 54D | Genetic stuff | Chuck Deodene |
| 6 Nov 1994 | 92A | Kind of “fingerprint” | A.J. Santora |
| 18 Sep 1994 | 68A | Fatherhood-testing info | Merl Reagle |
| 25 Aug 1994 | 45D | Certain code carrier | Harvey Estes |
| 9 Aug 1994 | 60D | Kind of testing | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| 14 May 1994 | 20A | Kind of testing | Rand H. Burns |
| 1 May 1994 | 28D | “The Selfish Gene” topic | Peter Gordon |
| 20 Apr 1994 | 17A | Kind of fingerprinting, nowadays | Walter Webb |
| 22 Mar 1994 | 31A | Gene material | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| 10 Feb 1994 | 55A | Genes material | Manny Nosowsky |
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