LOL is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for LOL in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "LOL" answer was first appeared in "7 Mar 1998" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Response to a joke on-line". It was authored by Rich Norris / Will Shortz. Recently, the "LOL" answer has been used for "19 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "“Hilarious!,” in a text". It was authored by Seth Weitberg. "LOL" appeared 117 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "LOL" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2023 | 31D | “Hilarious!,” in a text | Seth Weitberg |
| 10 Sep 2023 | 1A | Chat chuckle | Adam Wagner |
| 24 Jul 2023 | 20A | “That’s hilarious!,” in a text | John Ewbank |
| 2 Jul 2023 | 70D | Online initialism rarely meant literally | Rebecca Goldstein and Rafael Musa |
| 28 Jun 2023 | 60D | Reaction to a funny GIF | Matt Fuchs and Victor Sloan |
| 26 May 2023 | 19A | [Cracking up] | Hemant Mehta |
| 24 May 2023 | 4D | “Haha” | Kavin Pawittranon and Nijah Morris |
| 28 Apr 2023 | 11D | Text that’s often an exaggeration | Malaika Handa and Erik Agard |
| 18 Jan 2023 | 51A | Letters of amusement | Lindsay McBride |
| 27 Dec 2022 | 54D | Texter’s chortle | Lynn Lempel |
| 8 Oct 2022 | 24A | “Ha ha!” | Kyle Dolan |
| 21 Aug 2022 | 51D | Twitter titter | Brooke Husic and Will Nediger |
| 14 Jun 2022 | 25A | Not quite ROFL | Robert Won |
| 5 Jun 2022 | 44A | The joy of text? | Christina Iverson and Katie Hale |
| 30 May 2022 | 21D | “Haha” alternative | Alexander Liebeskind |
| 1 May 2022 | 54D | Has online? | Brandon Koppy |
| 30 Apr 2022 | 24A | Amused reaction | Joe DiPietro |
| 24 Apr 2022 | 4D | Text back and forth? | Sam Ezersky / Will Shortz |
| 19 Apr 2022 | 8D | Response to a funny text (that usually isn’t literally true) | Olivia Mitra Framke / Will Shortz |
| 23 Jan 2022 | 80A | 🙂 alternative | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger / Will Shortz |
| 14 Nov 2021 | 46A | Response to a texted joke | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz / Will Shortz |
| 8 Nov 2021 | 58D | “u r so funny!” | Carl Larson / Will Shortz |
| 31 Oct 2021 | 53A | Equivalent of the Face With Tears of Joy emoji | Alex Eaton-Salners / Will Shortz |
| 15 Jun 2021 | 48D | Online chuckle | Owen Travis / Will Shortz |
| 19 Feb 2021 | 27A | Modern lead-in to speak | Amanda Rafkin / Will Shortz |
| 7 Feb 2021 | 109A | “Ha-ha!” | Katie Hale and Christina Iverson / Will Shortz |
| 31 Jan 2021 | 89D | Crack up, in textspeak | Jim Hilger / Will Shortz |
| 15 Dec 2020 | 23A | “You crack me up,” in a text | Adam Vincent / Will Shortz |
| 24 Sep 2020 | 56A | Twitter titter | Trenton Charlson / Will Shortz |
| 17 Aug 2020 | 11D | Ha-ha, online | Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
| 28 Jul 2020 | 30D | “OMG, I’m dying!” | Ross Trudeau / Will Shortz |
| 10 Jun 2020 | 48A | Texter’s guffaw | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau / Will Shortz |
| 20 Apr 2020 | 46D | Texter’s guffaw | Lynn Lempel / Will Shortz |
| 6 Apr 2020 | 34A | “u r 2 funny!” | Andrea Carla Michaels and Brian Thomas / Will Shortz |
| 1 Apr 2020 | 32D | “Hahaha” | John Ficarra and Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
| 19 Mar 2020 | 24D | “That’s funny!,” in a text | Wayne Bergman and Gary Otting / Will Shortz |
| 14 Feb 2020 | 62D | Not just a “heh” | Daniel Larsen / Will Shortz |
| 14 May 2019 | 34A | “u r 2 funny” | Damon Gulczynski / Will Shortz |
| 10 Mar 2019 | 57D | Letters sometimes followed by 😀 | Adam Fromm / Will Shortz |
| 31 Dec 2018 | 24A | “That’s so funny,” in a text | Brian Thomas / Will Shortz |
| 20 Nov 2018 | 26A | “OMG, 2 funny!” | Zhouqin Burnikel / Will Shortz |
| 16 Jul 2018 | 43D | [That was a funny one] | Erik Agard / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jul 2018 | 14A | Response to a good meme, maybe | Randolph Ross / Will Shortz |
| 26 Jun 2018 | 41A | [U r hilarious] | Zhouqin Burnikel / Will Shortz |
| 10 Jun 2018 | 112A | 😀 | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jan 2018 | 41D | Response to an online joke | Lynn Lempel / Will Shortz |
| 6 Jan 2018 | 52D | Response to a joke, maybe | Peter Wentz / Will Shortz |
| 15 Oct 2017 | 104A | It doesn’t mean “lots of love” | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins / Will Shortz |
| 10 Sep 2017 | 9D | “Haha” | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 16 May 2017 | 30D | [You crack me up] | Bruce Haight / Will Shortz |
| 26 Mar 2017 | 11A | I.M. chuckle | Tracy Gray and Jeff Chen / Will Shortz |
| 3 Feb 2017 | 9D | Twitter titter | Paolo Pasco / Will Shortz |
| 22 Nov 2016 | 24D | “Haha, u r hilarious” | Andrew Zhou / Will Shortz |
| 14 Oct 2016 | 36A | “Ur hilarious!” | Natan Last / Will Shortz |
| 10 Sep 2016 | 61D | Common palindromic text | Peter Wentz / Will Shortz |
| 5 Aug 2016 | 63D | 😀 alternative | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 25 Jul 2016 | 22D | 1-Across, in textspeak | Kevin Christian / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jul 2016 | 21A | Email chuckle | Jules Markey / Will Shortz |
| 8 Jun 2016 | 52A | Texter’s reaction to a joke | Sean Dobbin / Will Shortz |
| 1 Jun 2016 | 60A | E-guffaw | Wren Schultz / Will Shortz |
| 8 Feb 2016 | 63D | [That is so funny] | Paolo Pasco / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jan 2016 | 55A | Response to an Internet meme, maybe | Jim Holland / Will Shortz |
| 28 Nov 2015 | 4D | Palindromic bit of textspeak | Ned White / Will Shortz |
| 22 Oct 2015 | 1A | [I crack myself up] | Tracy Gray / Will Shortz |
| 17 May 2015 | 82D | “U R so funny” alternative | Joe Krozel / Will Shortz |
| 2 May 2015 | 26D | Alternative to 🙂 | Barry C. Silk / Will Shortz |
| 28 Mar 2015 | 57D | Modern lead-in to cat | David Steinberg / Will Shortz |
| 17 Sep 2014 | 64D | [That cracks me up] | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jul 2014 | 45A | [Ha!] | Luke Vaughn / Will Shortz |
| 25 Mar 2014 | 58D | Online chuckle | David Woolf / Will Shortz |
| 18 Nov 2013 | 60D | Response to an online joke | Edgar Fontaine / Will Shortz |
| 6 Apr 2013 | 35A | Quick “ha ha” | Michael Wiesenberg / Will Shortz |
| 21 Aug 2012 | 6D | “U crack me up!” | Josh Knapp / Will Shortz |
| 21 Feb 2012 | 1A | “OMG ur so funny!” | Caleb Madison / Will Shortz |
| 2 Feb 2012 | 4D | Joke follower | Stu Ockman / Will Shortz |
| 1 Jan 2012 | 56A | [I’m so funny!] | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 5 Dec 2011 | 12D | Online “ha-ha” | Kenneth J. Berniker / Will Shortz |
| 20 Sep 2011 | 36D | Follower of a chat room joke | Daniel Raymon / Will Shortz |
| 10 Dec 2010 | 8D | Part of many an AIM chat | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 6 Sep 2010 | 13D | Twitter titter | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jul 2010 | 31D | Titter in a tweet | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 23 Jun 2010 | 62D | “U R funny!” | Alex Boisvert / Will Shortz |
| 23 Mar 2010 | 45D | I.M. snicker | Kurt Krauss / Will Shortz |
| 7 Mar 2010 | 58A | Online “Ha!” | Tony Orbach and Patrick Blindauer / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jan 2010 | 25D | Electronic gag reflex? | Doug Peterson / Will Shortz |
| 15 May 2009 | 42A | Response to an e-mailed joke, maybe | Xan Vongsathorn / Will Shortz |
| 11 Feb 2009 | 20A | Online chuckle | Richard Silvestri / Will Shortz |
| 13 Jan 2009 | 6D | Online guffaw | Daniel Kantor and Jay Kaskel / Will Shortz |
| 21 Oct 2008 | 9D | Online chuckle | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 14 Sep 2008 | 87D | “OMG, that’s sooo funny!” | Jeremy Newton / Will Shortz |
| 25 Jul 2008 | 55A | Text te-hee | John Farmer / Will Shortz |
| 17 Jul 2008 | 48D | Ha-ha, nowadays | Elizabeth A. Long / Will Shortz |
| 27 Feb 2008 | 7D | “That’s funny!,” in an e-mail | Lee Glickstein / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jan 2008 | 16A | Tickled user’s response | Paula Gamache / Will Shortz |
| 2 Jan 2008 | 66D | Response to a joke in an I.M. | Patrick Blindauer / Will Shortz |
| 25 Dec 2007 | 32D | Chat room chuckle | Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 12 Aug 2007 | 121D | Response to a funny text | Cathy Millhauser / Will Shortz |
| 1 Aug 2007 | 48D | Internet chuckle | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 12 Nov 2006 | 84D | Chat room abbr. | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 18 Oct 2006 | 46A | Online chortle | John Farmer / Will Shortz |
| 21 Aug 2006 | 27D | Chat room joke response | Elayne Cantor / Will Shortz |
| 25 Sep 2005 | 101D | Joke response | Matt Skoczen / Will Shortz |
| 24 Jul 2005 | 9D | Cyber-chortle | Frank Longo / Will Shortz |
| 15 Jul 2005 | 55D | Modern joke response | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 25 Jun 2005 | 29D | Modern indicator of amusement | John Underwood / Will Shortz |
| 29 Apr 2005 | 16A | Online “ha-ha” | Karen M. Tracey / Will Shortz |
| 24 Mar 2005 | 58D | Chat room abbr. | Dan Reichert / Will Shortz |
| 30 Dec 2004 | 1D | Equivalent of “ur 2 funny” | Kyle Mahowald / Will Shortz |
| 25 Apr 2004 | 77A | Online guffaw | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 24 Jun 2003 | 59D | Chat room chuckle | Norma Johnson and Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 19 Jun 2003 | 42D | “Ha-ha,” online | Randolph Ross / Will Shortz |
| 27 May 2001 | 40A | Chatroom chuckle | Dana Motley / Will Shortz |
| 27 May 2000 | 44A | Chat room chuckle | Robert H. Wolfe / Will Shortz |
| 12 Mar 2000 | 57A | Chat room abbr. | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 10 Jan 2000 | 58D | Response to an on-line joke | John Greenman / Will Shortz |
| 1 May 1999 | 26A | E-mail guffaw | Rich Norris / Will Shortz |
| 7 Mar 1998 | 42A | Response to a joke on-line | Rich Norris / Will Shortz |
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