NEAR is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for NEAR in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "NEAR" answer was first appeared in "22 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Close". It was authored by Morton B. Braun/Will Shortz. Recently, the "NEAR" answer has been used for "19 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Close by". It was authored by Seth Weitberg. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hints: "Close by", "Close", "Approach", "At hand", "Around". "NEAR" appeared 164 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "NEAR" word.
Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
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19 Dec 2023 | 16A | Close by | Seth Weitberg |
22 Oct 2023 | 60D | Approach | Robert Ryan |
14 Jun 2023 | 58D | A block or so away, say | Jennifer Hoelzer |
4 Jun 2023 | 34D | By | Rafael Musa |
24 Jan 2023 | 69A | In the area | Aaron M. Rosenberg and Jeff Chen |
5 Jan 2023 | 60A | Within reach | Emily Carroll |
3 Jul 2022 | 42D | Approach | Tom McCoy |
22 Jun 2022 | 39D | Close by | Kate Hawkins |
13 Jun 2022 | 16A | “___, far, wherever you are” (Celine Dion lyric) | Hoang-Kim Vu and Jessica Zetzman |
26 Jan 2022 | 37A | Dear’s rhyming partner | Michael Schlossberg / Will Shortz |
9 Dec 2021 | 27D | “Warm” | Alexander Liebeskind / Will Shortz |
1 Nov 2021 | 8D | In the neighborhood | Fiona Taylor / Will Shortz |
22 Aug 2021 | 15D | Almost | Stephen McCarthy / Will Shortz |
8 Jul 2021 | 24D | “Warm” | John Lampkin / Will Shortz |
26 Oct 2020 | 37D | Close by | Eric Bornstein / Will Shortz |
21 Sep 2020 | 44A | ___ at hand | Daniel Larsen and The Wave Learning Festival Crossword Class / Will Shortz |
13 Jul 2020 | 34D | Close | Erik Agard / Will Shortz |
9 Mar 2020 | 47D | Close by | John Lampkin / Will Shortz |
24 Dec 2019 | 19D | At hand | Alex Eaton-Salners / Will Shortz |
13 Jul 2019 | 40A | Sharing many of the characteristics of | David Steinberg / Will Shortz |
28 Feb 2019 | 17D | ___ miss | Randolph Ross / Will Shortz |
21 Jan 2019 | 29A | Close | Sean Biggins / Will Shortz |
19 Jul 2018 | 63D | Approximately | Mike Knobler / Will Shortz |
29 May 2018 | 30D | In the neighborhood | John Lieb / Will Shortz |
21 Jan 2018 | 54A | In the vicinity of | Victor Barocas and Andy Kravis / Will Shortz |
31 Oct 2017 | 63A | Not distant | Alex Eaton-Salners / Will Shortz |
20 Oct 2017 | 7D | About | Peter Wentz / Will Shortz |
12 Oct 2017 | 68A | Bye | Alex Eaton-Salners / Will Shortz |
9 Jul 2017 | 99A | ___ relative | Will Nediger / Will Shortz |
11 Jun 2017 | 46D | A mere stone’s throw from | Charles M. Deber / Will Shortz |
16 Apr 2017 | 1D | Close | Timothy Polin / Will Shortz |
28 Nov 2016 | 67A | In close proximity | Kristian House / Will Shortz |
16 Nov 2016 | 12D | Close | Jim Peredo / Will Shortz |
10 Nov 2016 | 33A | Dear companion? | Jonathan M. Kaye and Jeff Chen / Will Shortz |
10 Sep 2016 | 31D | In the offing | Peter Wentz / Will Shortz |
24 Apr 2016 | 78D | Almost | Kathy Wienberg / Will Shortz |
2 Nov 2015 | 62A | In the neighborhood | Loren Muse Smith and Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
30 Aug 2015 | 17D | Within view | Lee Taylor / Will Shortz |
7 Jun 2015 | 103D | At hand | Samuel A. Donaldson / Will Shortz |
26 Apr 2015 | 77D | ___ East | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
25 Jan 2015 | 76A | “Warm” | Alan Arbesfeld / Will Shortz |
15 May 2014 | 45A | Approaching | John Lieb / Will Shortz |
20 Apr 2014 | 30A | Within earshot | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
28 Jan 2014 | 39D | In the vicinity | Jeff Stillman / Will Shortz |
19 Jan 2014 | 78A | Close | Dan Schoenholz / Will Shortz |
5 Nov 2013 | 10D | Approaching | Paula Gamache / Will Shortz |
7 Oct 2013 | 35A | Close by | Amy Johnson / Will Shortz |
15 Aug 2013 | 15A | Warm, say | Jeff Chen / Will Shortz |
27 Jun 2013 | 35A | Around | Sean Dobbin / Will Shortz |
16 May 2013 | 3D | Almost | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Elizabeth Donovan / Will Shortz |
23 Dec 2012 | 88D | ___ beer | Joe DiPietro / Will Shortz |
19 Dec 2012 | 24D | Warm, so to speak | Mike Buckley / Will Shortz |
14 Oct 2012 | 49D | Only a day away, say | Todd Gross / Will Shortz |
10 Jul 2012 | 51D | ___ and 60-Across (all around) | Chris A. McGlothlin / Will Shortz |
28 Jan 2012 | 59A | Get 44-Down | Barry C. Silk / Will Shortz |
25 Oct 2011 | 10D | In the vicinity | C. W. Stewart / Will Shortz |
11 Apr 2011 | 11D | Close to | Ian Livengood / Will Shortz |
24 Feb 2011 | 62A | Hereabout | Gary Cee / Will Shortz |
31 Jan 2011 | 15A | Proximate | Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
26 Jan 2011 | 1A | With 65-Across, the starts of 20-, 26-, 43- and 51-Across taken together | David Murchie / Will Shortz |
29 Aug 2010 | 24D | About | Derek Bowman / Will Shortz |
3 Aug 2010 | 15D | Practically touching | Paula Gamache / Will Shortz |
28 Feb 2010 | 1A | ___ miss | Yaakov Bendavid / Will Shortz |
8 Jan 2010 | 31A | In the vicinity of | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
22 Jul 2009 | 40D | By | Patrick Blindauer / Will Shortz |
18 May 2009 | 32D | Close by | Billie Truitt / Will Shortz |
23 Mar 2009 | 61D | Close | Randy Sowell / Will Shortz |
5 Dec 2008 | 42D | About | Joe Krozel / Will Shortz |
1 Sep 2008 | 67A | Close to | Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
25 Aug 2008 | 2D | Within easy reach | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake / Will Shortz |
23 Jul 2008 | 67A | “___ as I can tell …” | Henry Quillen / Will Shortz |
20 Jul 2008 | 80D | Within striking distance | Barry C. Silk / Will Shortz |
24 Oct 2007 | 65A | “Warm” | Patrick Blindauer / Will Shortz |
16 Oct 2007 | 37D | Within earshot | Michael Kaplan / Will Shortz |
15 Oct 2007 | 6A | Close | Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
23 May 2007 | 55D | Within a stone’s throw | Bruce Venzke and Stella Daily / Will Shortz |
3 May 2007 | 14A | At hand | Richard Chisholm / Will Shortz |
19 Nov 2006 | 90D | At hand | Tony Orbach / Will Shortz |
12 Jun 2006 | 66A | In the vicinity | Curtis Yee / Will Shortz |
5 May 2006 | 4D | Approximate | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
3 Aug 2005 | 39D | Approach | David Liben-Nowell and Ryan O’Donnell / Will Shortz |
3 Jun 2005 | 57A | Impending | Jim Hyres / Will Shortz |
29 May 2005 | 30D | Come up to | Frank Longo / Will Shortz |
5 Apr 2005 | 61D | Within reach | Harvey Estes / Will Shortz |
5 Mar 2005 | 23A | Circa | Bob Peoples / Will Shortz |
22 Feb 2005 | 33D | Close | Ed Early / Will Shortz |
1 Feb 2005 | 18A | Close | Kevan Choset / Will Shortz |
31 Jan 2005 | 49A | Within a stone’s throw | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
22 Jun 2004 | 28D | Within earshot | Allan E. Parrish / Will Shortz |
6 Jun 2004 | 78D | Around | Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
20 Jan 2004 | 29A | Within view | Eric Berlin / Will Shortz |
22 Dec 2003 | 55D | Close in on | Joy C. Frank / Will Shortz |
21 Nov 2003 | 6D | Almost here | David Ainslie Macleod / Will Shortz |
15 Oct 2003 | 16A | Getting warm | John Greenman / Will Shortz |
25 Sep 2003 | 58A | Impending | Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
29 Aug 2003 | 51D | Future preceder | Gilbert H. Ludwig / Will Shortz |
7 Jul 2003 | 53A | Close by | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes / Will Shortz |
29 May 2003 | 34D | Within earshot | Jim Page / Will Shortz |
18 May 2003 | 115D | With 74-Down, part of Asia | Nancy Nicholson Joline / Will Shortz |
20 Apr 2003 | 41D | Around | Bill Zais / Will Shortz |
15 Apr 2003 | 62A | In the vicinity | Adam G. Perl / Will Shortz |
4 Sep 2002 | 35D | Fast approaching | Eric Berlin / Will Shortz |
15 Aug 2002 | 33A | Well-nigh | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
19 Jun 2002 | 41D | Close | Janet R. Bender / Will Shortz |
18 Jun 2002 | 25D | In the area | Eugene W. Sard / Will Shortz |
16 May 2002 | 5D | In the offing | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
24 Apr 2002 | 15A | Dear’s partner | Sheldon Benardo / Will Shortz |
27 Mar 2002 | 18A | Getting warm, say | Sarah Keller / Will Shortz |
10 Mar 2002 | 126A | Around | Nelson Hardy / Will Shortz |
28 Feb 2002 | 18D | Getting warm | Greg Staples / Will Shortz |
9 Nov 2001 | 23D | Kind of miss | Chuck Menning / Will Shortz |
29 Oct 2001 | 30D | Close | Richard Hughes / Will Shortz |
23 Oct 2001 | 63A | Close | Leonard Williams / Will Shortz |
12 Sep 2001 | 15A | Within range, maybe | Philip Lew / Will Shortz |
23 Nov 2000 | 56D | Approach | Louis Hildebrand / Will Shortz |
4 Jun 2000 | 66A | Impending | Martin Schneider / Will Shortz |
20 May 2000 | 36A | Foreseeable | Rich Norris / Will Shortz |
2 May 2000 | 46A | Close in on | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
12 Apr 2000 | 50D | Approach | Peter Gordon / Will Shortz |
7 Feb 2000 | 61A | Not far | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
24 Dec 1999 | 10D | Imminent | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
2 Nov 1999 | 57A | Next-door | Bernice Gordon / Will Shortz |
11 Oct 1999 | 13D | At hand | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
30 Aug 1999 | 21A | Around | Margaret Watson / Will Shortz |
2 Aug 1999 | 45A | Close | Stephanie Spadaccini / Will Shortz |
7 Jun 1999 | 47D | Within view | Robert O. Dillman / Will Shortz |
13 Apr 1999 | 37D | Warm, so to speak | Fred Piscop / Will Shortz |
12 Apr 1999 | 42A | Close | Diane C. Baldwin / Will Shortz |
12 Feb 1999 | 9D | ___ miss | Joe DiPietro / Will Shortz |
1 Nov 1998 | 37D | Imminent | Robert Malinow / Will Shortz |
7 Jul 1998 | 65A | Kind of miss | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
26 Apr 1998 | 82D | Close in on | Fran and Lou Sabin / Will Shortz |
14 Apr 1998 | 14A | Close | Diane C. Baldwin / Will Shortz |
12 Apr 1998 | 125A | Intimate | Randolph Ross / Will Shortz |
10 Mar 1998 | 54D | Approach | Patrick Jordan / Will Shortz |
20 Feb 1998 | 31D | Kind of catastrophe | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
12 Feb 1998 | 51D | Within earshot | Richard Silvestri / Will Shortz |
8 Jan 1998 | 62A | By | Nancy S. Ross / Will Shortz |
14 Aug 1997 | 33A | ___ East | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
1 Aug 1997 | 57A | Immediate | Gerald R. Ferguson / Will Shortz |
4 May 1997 | 95A | Warm, so to speak | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
10 Mar 1997 | 8D | Not distant | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
12 Feb 1997 | 64A | Close | M. E. Skolsky / W. Shortz |
13 Jan 1997 | 3D | Not distant | G. E. Paul / W. Shortz |
25 Dec 1996 | 24A | Hereabout | N. S. Ross / W. Shortz |
19 Nov 1996 | 16A | Close | G. E. Paul / W. Shortz |
1 Sep 1996 | 32D | Handy to | D. J. Kahn / W. Shortz |
28 Jul 1996 | 113A | In the vicinity | N. S. Wizer / Will Shortz |
8 Apr 1996 | 66A | Close | S. B. Whitten / W. Shortz |
7 Mar 1996 | 46D | Problematic for presbyopes | C. Millhauser / Will Shortz |
5 Feb 1996 | 44A | At hand | Robert Katz / Will Shortz |
30 Oct 1995 | 56D | Imminent | Gregory E. Paul/Will Shortz |
19 May 1995 | 24A | Approach | Michael S. Maurer/Will Shortz |
3 Mar 1995 | 25A | Nigh | Chuck Deodene / Will Shortz |
9 Feb 1995 | 27D | At hand | Richard Thomas/Will Shortz |
4 Dec 1994 | 29D | About | Robert H. Wolfe/Will Shortz |
10 Oct 1994 | 57D | Close | Wayne Robert Williams / Will Shortz |
11 Aug 1994 | 40A | Approach | Bryant White/Will Shortz |
3 Aug 1994 | 18D | Circa | Richard Thomas/Will Shortz |
20 Jul 1994 | 61D | About | Harvey Estes / Will Shortz |
28 Apr 1994 | 23D | Around | Randy Sowell / Will Shortz |
18 Jan 1994 | 6D | Circa | Joy L. Wouk/Will Shortz |
11 Jan 1994 | 64A | “Warm” | Albert J. Klaus/Will Shortz |
22 Dec 1993 | 35A | Close | Morton B. Braun/Will Shortz |
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