LAVA is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for LAVA in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "LAVA" answer was first appeared in "14 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Kind of flow (2)". It was authored by Joel Davajan. Recently, the "LAVA" answer has been used for "13 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Hot stuff (2)". It was authored by Alex Eaton-Salners. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Volcanic flow (8)". "LAVA" appeared 130 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "LAVA" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Dec 2023 | 19A | Hot stuff | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 30 Oct 2023 | 14A | What magma becomes when it’s erupted | Kenneth Cortes |
| 10 Sep 2023 | 28A | It comes out on top | Adam Wagner |
| 1 Aug 2023 | 56A | Kind of lamp or cake | Kathryn Ladner |
| 31 Jul 2023 | 14A | Volcano output | David Litman and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 19 Jun 2023 | 58D | Volcano’s output | David Liben-Nowell |
| 28 Nov 2022 | 30A | Mount Etna output | Chloe Revery |
| 26 Jul 2022 | 62A | It can harden into igneous rock | Lillian Simpson |
| 17 Dec 2021 | 49D | It’s hot stuff! | Evans Clinchy |
| 3 May 2021 | 14A | Stream from a volcano | Ross Trudeau |
| 7 Jan 2021 | 35A | Volcanologist’s study | Matthew Stock and Sid Sivakumar |
| 31 Aug 2020 | 60D | Molten flow | Anne Marie Crinnion |
| 5 Aug 2020 | 59A | Rolling rock? | Michael Paleos |
| 22 Jun 2020 | 16A | Volcanic output | Sid Sivakumar |
| 1 Jun 2020 | 13A | “Ingredient” in molten chocolate cake | Erik Agard |
| 3 Mar 2020 | 15A | Volcanic flow | Lynn Lempel |
| 9 Dec 2019 | 16A | Outpouring from a volcano | Ellis Hay |
| 2 Apr 2019 | 10D | Volcano’s spew | Natasha Lyonne and Deb Amlen |
| 11 Mar 2019 | 3D | Volcano’s spew | Trent Evans |
| 17 Dec 2018 | 67A | Volcanic flow | Brian Thomas and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 2 Dec 2018 | 108D | What obsidian forms from | Paul Coulter |
| 17 Sep 2018 | 14A | Volcanic rock | Caitlin Reid |
| 6 Sep 2018 | 3D | It flows and glows | Jeff Chen |
| 4 Apr 2018 | 42A | Rock that rolls? | Weird Al Yankovic and Eric Berlin |
| 23 Jan 2018 | 11D | ___ flow | Jim Hilger |
| 30 Dec 2017 | 45A | Composition of some beds | Damon Gulczynski |
| 13 Jul 2017 | 53D | It goes with the flow | Lewis E. Rothlein |
| 30 May 2016 | 59D | What a volcano erupts | David Woolf |
| 7 Dec 2015 | 52D | Volcanic output | Jason Mueller |
| 12 Oct 2015 | 15A | Volcano’s output | Patrick Merrell |
| 19 Apr 2015 | 114D | Coulee’s contents | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 12 Feb 2015 | 19A | ___ cake (rich dessert) | Jules P. Markey |
| 27 Oct 2014 | 58A | Chocolate ___ cake (dessert with a molten center) | Stanley Newman |
| 14 Oct 2014 | 33A | Slow flow | Adam G. Perl |
| 27 Mar 2014 | 57D | Soap with pumice | Jean O’Conor |
| 25 Mar 2014 | 7D | Mauna Kea emission | David Woolf |
| 31 Dec 2013 | 3D | Volcanic emission | Tracy Gray |
| 1 Jul 2013 | 28D | Volcanic flow | Patrick McIntyre |
| 15 May 2013 | 10A | Soap brand that contains pumice | David Sullivan |
| 29 Apr 2013 | 28D | Volcanic emission | C. W. Stewart |
| 9 Jan 2013 | 1D | Source of pumice | David Ben-Merre |
| 16 Dec 2012 | 21A | Dangerous outpouring | Matt Ginsberg |
| 25 Jun 2012 | 17A | Volcano output | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| 12 Jun 2012 | 28A | Obsidian rock producer | Peter A. Collins |
| 3 Nov 2011 | 1A | Certain lamp goo | Parker Lewis |
| 14 Oct 2011 | 58D | Source of venanzite | Caleb Madison and J.A.S.A. Class |
| 25 Sep 2011 | 121A | Cone former | Paul Hunsberger |
| 3 Dec 2010 | 37A | Rolling stone? | Matt Ginsberg |
| 14 Jun 2010 | 11D | Volcano’s output | Mark Feldman |
| 23 May 2010 | 68D | Pumice source | Yaakov Bendavid |
| 31 Aug 2009 | 16A | Material from a volcano | Fred Piscop |
| 4 Aug 2009 | 67A | Molten flow | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 22 Jul 2009 | 38A | Abrasive soap brand | Patrick Blindauer |
| 4 Apr 2009 | 56A | Leucite source | Matt Ginsberg |
| 23 Feb 2009 | 19A | Molten flow | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 18 Jun 2008 | 5A | Etna product | Adam Fromm |
| 16 Apr 2008 | 16A | Volcanic output | Edward Sessa |
| 31 Jan 2008 | 5A | It may be found in a cone | Paula Gamache |
| 14 Dec 2007 | 55D | Flow in a coulee | Manny Nosowsky |
| 17 Sep 2007 | 7D | ___ lamp (1960s novelty) | Sarah Keller |
| 28 Aug 2007 | 6D | Source of basalt | Linda Schechet Tucker |
| 7 Aug 2007 | 2D | Content of some cones | Daniel Kantor |
| 15 Apr 2007 | 107D | 58-Down output | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 2 Apr 2007 | 1D | Volcanic discharge | Richard Hughes |
| 20 Mar 2007 | 1D | Source of pumice | Laura A. Halper |
| 6 Mar 2007 | 49D | Source of basalt | Paula Gamache |
| 24 Dec 2006 | 37A | Rolling rock | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 16 Nov 2006 | 12A | Soft rock? | Kevin Donovan |
| 12 Sep 2006 | 40D | Magma, after surfacing | James R. Leeds |
| 4 Sep 2006 | 14A | Volcano output | Mike Nothnagel |
| 16 Jul 2006 | 2D | Source of basalt | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| 22 Mar 2006 | 15A | ___ lamp | Jim Hyres |
| 13 Dec 2005 | 14A | Volcanic flow | Roy Leban |
| 30 Nov 2005 | 56A | Rolling rock? | Seth A. Abel |
| 20 Dec 2004 | 48D | Volcano flow | Kyle Mahowald |
| 20 Aug 2004 | 50D | Composition of some beds | Harvey Estes |
| 13 May 2004 | 14A | Popular soap | Patrick Merrell |
| 4 Mar 2004 | 15A | Rolling rock | Patrick Merrell |
| 29 Feb 2004 | 91D | Hot rock | Patrick Merrell |
| 3 Feb 2004 | 9D | Hot issue | Joe Bower and Nancy Salomon |
| 3 Jun 2003 | 49D | Hot rock | Judy Cole |
| 28 May 2003 | 10A | Pelée spew | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 7 Sep 2002 | 43D | Source of leucite and rhyolite | Patrick Berry |
| 29 Apr 2002 | 43D | Popular hand soap | Holden Baker |
| 3 Feb 2002 | 57A | Basalt source | Richard Silvestri |
| 18 Jan 2002 | 52D | Slow roller | Manny Nosowsky |
| 1 Dec 2001 | 31A | Obsidian, once | Peter Gordon |
| 19 Nov 2001 | 57D | Output of Mount Etna | Peter Gordon |
| 11 Sep 2001 | 1A | Cone material | Joan Yanofsky |
| 19 Jul 2001 | 15A | Obsidian, before cooling | Marjorie Richter |
| 27 Mar 2001 | 66A | Rock on the roll? | Sherry O. Blackard |
| 7 Mar 2001 | 7D | Hawaiian bubbly? | Noah Dephoure |
| 5 Mar 2001 | 38A | Volcanic flow | Sherry O. Blackard |
| 17 May 2000 | 16A | Contents of some cones | Michael S. Maurer |
| 2 Apr 2000 | 21A | Rolling rock? | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| 19 Mar 2000 | 1A | ___ Beds National Monument, Calif. | Greg Staples |
| 30 Nov 1999 | 33A | It goes with the flow | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 31 Oct 1999 | 130D | It may be found in a cone | Frank A. Longo |
| 12 Apr 1999 | 57A | Etna output | Diane C. Baldwin |
| 11 Feb 1999 | 32D | Stromboli output | Cathy Millhauser |
| 10 Jan 1999 | 19D | Hot issue | David J. Kahn |
| 15 Dec 1998 | 53D | Volcanic flow | Patrick Jordan |
| 2 Dec 1998 | 65A | Result of venting? | Nancy Salomon |
| 15 Nov 1998 | 42D | Hot stuff | Robert H. Wolfe |
| 25 Oct 1998 | 107D | Basalt source | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 9 Sep 1998 | 10D | Soap brand | Richard Hughes |
| 8 Sep 1998 | 1A | Volcano flow | Nancy Salomon |
| 18 Aug 1998 | 47D | Volcanic flow | Nancy Salomon |
| 25 Jul 1998 | 10D | It goes with the flow | Robert H. Wolfe |
| 29 Jun 1998 | 69A | Liquid rock | Gregory E. Paul |
| 7 Jun 1998 | 52D | Hot rocks | Randolph Ross |
| 31 May 1998 | 117A | Procter & Gamble soap | Cathy Millhauser |
| 27 May 1998 | 3D | Kind of lamp | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| 10 May 1998 | 62A | Hot issue? | Rich Silvestri |
| 14 Jan 1998 | 10D | Volcanologist’s concern | William Bernhardt |
| 20 Oct 1997 | 33D | Volcano output | Peter Gordon |
| 2 Feb 1997 | 95A | Hot issue? | R. Silvestri |
| 11 Dec 1996 | 16A | Proctor & Gamble soap | F. & L. Sabin |
| 19 Nov 1996 | 14A | Etna output | G. E. Paul |
| 17 Jun 1996 | 2D | Popocatepetl emission | S. L. Robbins |
| 15 May 1996 | 56D | Kilauea flow | A.J. Santora |
| 3 Apr 1996 | 14A | Volcanic flow | M. Gaffney |
| 12 Dec 1995 | 42A | Mt. Etna flow | Gregory E. Paul |
| 15 Nov 1995 | 40D | Volcano flow | Matt Gaffney |
| 18 Sep 1995 | 60A | Etna output | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 23 Jul 1995 | 90D | Kind of flow | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| 11 Jul 1995 | 55D | Igneous flow | Gregory E. Paul |
| 2 Apr 1995 | 114A | Hot rock | Norman S. Wizer |
| 23 Aug 1994 | 30D | Pelee output | Peter Gordon |
| 14 Dec 1993 | 3D | Kind of flow | Joel Davajan |
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