EVIL is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for EVIL in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "EVIL" answer was first appeared in "29 Nov 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "“Hear no___ …” (2)". It was authored by Sidney L. Robbins. Recently, the "EVIL" answer has been used for "5 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Rotten (2)". It was authored by Nate Cardin. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Satanic (10)". "EVIL" appeared 195 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "EVIL" word.
Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
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5 Dec 2023 | 36D | Rotten | Nate Cardin |
19 Jul 2023 | 27D | Not good | Billy Bratton |
19 Jun 2023 | 2D | Wicked | David Liben-Nowell |
2 Apr 2023 | 15D | Nefarious | Jeremy Newton and Tracy Gray |
28 Mar 2023 | 27D | Word with eye or empire | Daniel Kantor and Jay Kaskel |
12 Mar 2023 | 64D | Not just bad | David Tuffs |
8 Dec 2022 | 2D | Word with twin or grin | Grant Thackray |
17 Oct 2022 | 5A | Like a stereotypical fairy-tale stepmother | Caryn L. Robbins |
4 Oct 2022 | 19A | Satanic | Joe Deeney |
19 Sep 2022 | 60A | ___ eye (glare said to bring bad luck) | Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels |
7 Sep 2022 | 39D | Like Thanos in the Marvel universe | Ekua Ewool |
2 Aug 2022 | 10A | Apt anagram of VILE | Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor |
28 Jul 2022 | 12D | “May the forces of ___ become confused on the way to your house”: George Carlin | Bill Pipal and Jeff Chen |
3 Jun 2022 | 52A | It’s not good | Robyn Weintraub |
18 Mar 2022 | 18A | Like the more interesting twin, some would say | Claire Rimkus and Brooke Husic |
10 Jan 2022 | 60A | Diabolical | Lynn Lempel |
9 Dec 2021 | 49D | Iniquitous | Alexander Liebeskind |
16 Sep 2021 | 30D | Heinous | Kevin Patterson |
15 Jun 2021 | 60A | Like some twins and grins | Owen Travis |
17 May 2021 | 52D | “Don’t be ___” (Google motto) | Wren Schultz |
9 Mar 2021 | 51A | Wickedness | Simon Marotte |
8 Feb 2021 | 13A | Satan’s doings | Portia Lundie |
19 Oct 2020 | 53D | Like Satan | Fred Piscop |
30 Jun 2020 | 36D | Satanic | Zachary David Levy |
3 Mar 2020 | 52D | Heinous | Lynn Lempel |
28 Feb 2020 | 15A | What mustache-twirling might suggest | Aimee Lucido |
1 Jan 2020 | 60A | Dr. ___, film enemy of Austin Powers | Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen |
16 Dec 2019 | 16A | Wicked | Howard Barkin and Kevin Christian |
15 Dec 2019 | 74D | Like a “mwa-ha-ha” laugh | Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen |
14 Jul 2019 | 100D | Dastard’s doings | Caitlin Reid |
22 Jun 2019 | 29A | With 53-Across, one whom you might blame for something bad that you did | Joe Deeney |
17 Sep 2018 | 3D | Wicked | Caitlin Reid |
16 Jul 2018 | 61D | Bad, bad, bad | Erik Agard |
8 May 2018 | 16A | Satan’s doings | Ori Brian |
19 Apr 2018 | 61A | “Man produces ___ as a bee produces honey”: William Golding | Todd Gross |
26 Mar 2018 | 2D | Fiendish | Andy Kravis |
12 Mar 2018 | 57A | Satanic | John R. O’Brien |
27 Dec 2017 | 27D | Malevolence | David Kwong |
30 Oct 2017 | 32D | Like Michael Myers of “Halloween” | Jay Kaskel |
12 Jun 2017 | 3D | Satanic | Dan Margolis |
26 Apr 2017 | 34D | Black-hearted | Trenton Charlson |
24 Nov 2016 | 47D | What superheroes battle | Brian J. MacDonald |
16 Nov 2016 | 38A | Bad to the bone | Jim Peredo |
9 Nov 2016 | 56D | “Don’t be ___” (Google motto) | John Lieb |
20 Sep 2016 | 10D | Voldemort-like | Tracy Bennett |
10 Sep 2016 | 22A | Very dark | Peter Wentz |
16 Feb 2016 | 19A | Dr. ___, Austin Powers’s foe | Ron and Nancy Byron |
9 Jan 2016 | 11D | “___ is whatever distracts”: Kafka | Jason Flinn |
6 Dec 2015 | 79D | Maleficent | Patrick Berry |
17 Aug 2015 | 24D | Wicked | Andrea Carla Michaels |
12 Jul 2015 | 21A | Nefarious | Patrick Berry |
20 Jan 2015 | 59A | Bad to the bone | Susan Gelfand |
15 Dec 2014 | 28D | Bad to the bone | Zhouqin Burnikel and Dennis Ryall |
21 May 2014 | 12D | Like some spirits | Mike Buckley |
6 Jan 2014 | 3D | Diabolical | Zhouqin Burnikel |
13 Nov 2013 | 51D | Bad to the bone | Jean O’Conor |
1 Oct 2013 | 23D | Nefarious | Joel Fagliano |
26 Aug 2013 | 19D | Satan’s doing | Ian Livengood |
20 Aug 2013 | 62A | Wicked | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo |
21 Jul 2013 | 22A | Like Voldemort | Tracy Bennett |
2 Jul 2013 | 17A | “Don’t be ___” (Google’s motto) | Daniel Raymon |
13 Mar 2013 | 34D | The dark side | Joe DiPietro |
13 Jan 2013 | 80D | 84-Down’s doings | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
3 Sep 2012 | 10D | Satanic | C. W. Stewart |
11 Jun 2012 | 42D | Dastardly | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
22 Jan 2012 | 106D | Malevolent | Adam Fromm |
31 Jul 2011 | 36A | “Fear is pain rising from the anticipation of ___”: Aristotle | Pamela Klawitter |
24 Jun 2011 | 54A | Kind of twin | Milo Beckman |
27 Apr 2011 | 2D | Diabolical | William I. Johnston |
3 Apr 2011 | 17D | ___ eye | Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg |
11 Jul 2010 | 64A | The ___ One (sobriquet for Satan) | Ed Sessa |
30 Nov 2009 | 2D | Blackhearted | Oliver Hill |
11 Nov 2009 | 23A | Straight from hell | Kelsey Blakley |
12 Oct 2009 | 8D | Good’s opposite | Richard Chisholm |
25 Aug 2009 | 67A | Dr. ___ (Mike Myers character) | Bob Johnson |
22 Jun 2009 | 42A | Demon’s doing | Fred Piscop |
5 Jun 2009 | 44A | Foul | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
9 Apr 2009 | 34D | Devilish | Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach |
26 Feb 2009 | 14A | “The ___ of Frankenstein” (Peter Cushing film) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
22 Jul 2008 | 30A | Demonic | Lynn Lempel |
27 May 2008 | 42A | Demon’s doing | Adam G. Perl |
20 Apr 2008 | 76D | Like some twins | John Farmer |
5 Sep 2007 | 34D | Satanic | Richard Silvestri |
11 Jul 2007 | 26D | Dr. ___ of “Austin Powers” films | Patrick Merrell |
15 Feb 2007 | 14A | Dark side | Elizabeth Rehfeld |
27 Dec 2006 | 35A | Nefariousness | Manny Nosowsky |
16 Nov 2006 | 2D | Dastardly doings | Kevin Donovan |
7 Nov 2006 | 57D | The dark side | Bruce P. Douglas |
9 Sep 2006 | 48A | Rotten | Bob Klahn |
27 Aug 2006 | 80D | It can’t be good | Seth A. Abel |
1 May 2006 | 59D | Blackhearted | Mike Torch |
3 Apr 2006 | 40A | Diabolical | Lynn Lempel |
13 Mar 2006 | 11D | Foul doings | Bernice Gordon |
21 Feb 2006 | 53D | Demonic | Lisa Wiseman |
20 Feb 2006 | 16A | Dark doings | Doug Peterson |
19 Feb 2006 | 55A | Vice | Joe DiPietro |
26 Jan 2006 | 40A | Blackhearted | Manny Nosowsky |
1 Nov 2005 | 14A | Worse than bad | Sarah Keller |
17 Aug 2005 | 33D | Dastardly doings | Kyle Mahowald |
13 Feb 2005 | 81D | “___ falls on him who goes to seek it”: Cervantes | Daniel C. Bryant |
7 Feb 2005 | 18D | Like Darth Vader | Gordon Seaberg |
21 Nov 2004 | 108A | Perfidious | Kumar Balani |
14 Nov 2004 | 115A | It’s not good | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
16 Aug 2004 | 56D | Diabolical | Joy C. Frank |
26 Jun 2004 | 51D | Set, Egyptian god of ___ | Byron Walden |
28 Feb 2004 | 29D | Dark side | Byron Walden |
14 Jan 2004 | 61A | Villain’s work | Fred Piscop |
30 Dec 2003 | 52A | Wicked | Nancy Kavanaugh |
15 Dec 2003 | 54A | Fiendish | Sarah Keller |
18 Aug 2003 | 10D | Devil’s work | Ed Early |
7 Jul 2003 | 67A | The dark force | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
15 Jun 2003 | 119A | Big Bad Wolf’s doing | Cathy Millhauser |
13 May 2003 | 58D | Malevolence | Todd McClary |
9 Mar 2003 | 107D | Wickedness | Patrick Berry |
21 Jan 2003 | 69A | Devil’s doings | Richard Chisholm |
30 Dec 2002 | 68A | Demonic | Gregory E. Paul |
29 Dec 2002 | 97A | See 44-Down | Richard Silvestri |
10 Dec 2002 | 26A | Bad to the bone | John Underwood |
8 Aug 2002 | 29D | Axis of ___ | Patrick Merrell |
29 May 2002 | 12D | Satan’s doings | Alan Olschwang |
20 Mar 2002 | 6D | Axis of ___ | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
25 Feb 2002 | 11D | Worse than knavery | Christina Houlihan |
23 Feb 2002 | 56D | Damnable | Rich Norris |
15 Oct 2001 | 15A | Villainous act | Holden Baker |
17 Sep 2001 | 16A | Satanic | Peter Gordon |
16 Aug 2001 | 65A | No good deed | Joe DiPietro |
14 Aug 2001 | 56D | Wickedness | Randall J. Hartman |
6 Aug 2001 | 16A | Satan’s work | Bernice Gordon |
8 Jul 2001 | 124D | Dark doings | Michael S. Maurer |
19 Jun 2001 | 37A | Malevolent | Tyler Hinman |
12 Feb 2001 | 33D | “Who knows what ___ lurks …” | Gregory E. Paul |
27 Sep 2000 | 15A | Fiendishness | Fred Piscop |
26 Sep 2000 | 11D | Sermon topic | Bill Ballard |
10 Jul 2000 | 64A | Satan’s work | Gene Newman |
25 Mar 2000 | 56D | Unholiness | David J. Kahn |
22 Feb 2000 | 68A | Devil’s doing | Dorothy E. Donaldson |
9 Jan 2000 | 103D | Good opponent? | Charles M. Deber |
24 Dec 1999 | 5D | Full of turpitude | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
20 Dec 1999 | 14A | Like Darth Vader | Nancy Salomon |
9 Sep 1999 | 14A | Like Edmund in “King Lear” | Sam Bellotto Jr. |
22 Aug 1999 | 35D | Ungodliness | Raymond Hamel |
4 Aug 1999 | 3D | Santana’s “___ Ways” | Richard Silvestri |
4 Jul 1999 | 110D | Like Darth Maul | Greg Staples |
21 Jun 1999 | 11D | Unholy | Gregory E. Paul |
9 Jun 1999 | 24D | The dark force | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
22 Mar 1999 | 12D | Like Darth Vader | Gregory E. Paul |
27 Feb 1999 | 63A | Like some twins | John Scott Marrone |
17 Jan 1999 | 22A | The wrong stuff | Cathy Millhauser |
4 Jan 1999 | 56D | Like Darth Vader | Gregory E. Paul |
3 Nov 1998 | 62A | Malicious | Ed Early |
24 Oct 1998 | 42D | Good’s partner | Rich Norris |
6 Oct 1998 | 54D | Fiendish | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
21 Sep 1998 | 16A | Satanic | Matthew Lees |
16 Feb 1998 | 56D | Wicked | Peter Gordon |
8 Jan 1998 | 37A | Like Lex Luthor | Nancy S. Ross |
25 Nov 1997 | 63A | Wicked | Gregory E. Paul |
28 Oct 1997 | 12D | Satanicalness | Bernice Gordon |
22 Oct 1997 | 21D | What lurks in the hearts of men | John D. Leavy |
9 Oct 1997 | 14A | Base | Cathy Millhauser |
5 Aug 1997 | 66A | Satanic | William Bernhardt |
4 Aug 1997 | 66A | The dark side | Gregory E. Paul |
30 Jun 1997 | 3D | More than devilish | Peter Gordon |
19 Jun 1997 | 57A | Dark forces | Patrick Jordan |
13 May 1997 | 46D | Like Satan | Gregory E. Paul |
12 Apr 1997 | 50D | Rank and vile | Bob Klahn |
7 Apr 1997 | 55D | Wicked | Teresa M. Hackett |
25 Dec 1996 | 64A | Nefariousness | N. S. Ross |
24 Dec 1996 | 57D | Stephen King topic | E. C. Gorski |
7 Dec 1996 | 56D | Base | R. H. Burns |
19 Nov 1996 | 3D | Wicked | G. E. Paul |
22 Aug 1996 | 53D | Harmful | R. Norris |
5 Jun 1996 | 16A | Kind of empire | G. R. Ferguson |
15 May 1996 | 66A | “Hear no___…” | A.J. Santora |
11 Apr 1996 | 18A | Satanic | R. Hamel |
2 Jan 1996 | 14A | Diabolic | G. Paul |
30 Oct 1995 | 16A | Satan’s doing | Gregory E. Paul |
26 Sep 1995 | 60A | Sinfulness | Bob Klahn & Raymond Hamel |
10 Aug 1995 | 20A | Dark side | Matt Gaffney |
8 Aug 1995 | 27D | Good’s opponent | Gregory E. Paul |
9 May 1995 | 22D | Good’s opponent | Gregory E. Paul |
21 Apr 1995 | 54D | Diabolic | Rand H. Burns |
22 Mar 1995 | 58A | Malevolent | David J. Kahn |
2 Jan 1995 | 37D | Sinful | Sidney L. Robbins |
13 Dec 1994 | 46A | Blackhearted | Jon Delfin |
4 Aug 1994 | 58D | Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of___” | Jim Page |
5 Jun 1994 | 101D | Infamy | Dean Niles |
1 Jun 1994 | 54A | Satan’s doing | Bob Lubbers |
29 May 1994 | 87D | Kind of eye | Janet R. Bender |
18 Apr 1994 | 54D | The dark force | Nancy Joline |
17 Apr 1994 | 63D | Demon’s doing | R. M. Hopkins |
16 Mar 1994 | 9D | Kind of eye | Fred Piscop |
7 Mar 1994 | 12D | Demonic | Alex K. Justin |
20 Dec 1993 | 12D | Heinous | Norma Steinberg |
6 Dec 1993 | 33D | lniquitous | Peter Gordon |
29 Nov 1993 | 2D | “Hear no___ …” | Sidney L. Robbins |
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