OAHU is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for OAHU in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "OAHU" answer was first appeared in "22 Nov 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Honolulu locale". It was authored by Fred Piscop. Recently, the "OAHU" answer has been used for "5 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Diamond Head’s island (2)". It was authored by Nate Cardin. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Obama’s birthplace (6)". "OAHU" appeared 169 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "OAHU" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Dec 2023 | 60A | Diamond Head’s island | Nate Cardin |
| 24 Oct 2023 | 16A | Third-largest Hawaiian island | Daniel Grinberg |
| 8 Oct 2023 | 13D | Home to the Reef Runway, the first major airport runway built completely offshore | Sid Sivakumar |
| 4 Oct 2023 | 31A | Home to Iolani Palace | Gary Larson |
| 26 Sep 2023 | 39D | Home of the palace Hanaiakamalama | Shannon Rapp and Rebecca Goldstein |
| 16 Aug 2023 | 44A | Where Diamond Head is | Mangesh Ghogre and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 29 May 2023 | 26D | Island home to Honolulu | Katie Hale and Zachary David Levy |
| 16 Mar 2023 | 25D | Home of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial | Rebecca Goldstein |
| 8 Mar 2023 | 35D | “From Here to Eternity” setting | Miranda Kany |
| 4 Dec 2022 | 57D | Home of Wheeler Army Airfield | Gustie Owens |
| 26 Oct 2022 | 24D | Pearl Harbor National Memorial locale | Simeon Seigel |
| 11 Aug 2022 | 30A | Filming locale for “the beach” in “Lost” | David Tuffs |
| 7 Aug 2022 | 10D | “Magnum, P.I.” setting | Tina Labadie |
| 1 Aug 2022 | 2D | Honolulu’s island | Garrett Chalfin |
| 17 Jul 2022 | 72D | Home of Iolani Palace | Greg Slovacek |
| 30 Jun 2022 | 29D | American home of a royal palace | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson |
| 12 Jun 2022 | 20A | Home to the Dole Plantation | Will Nediger |
| 20 May 2022 | 23A | U.S. locale that, when said quickly, sounds like a cheer | Hal Moore |
| 15 Feb 2022 | 55A | Honolulu’s island | Claire Rimkus |
| 13 Feb 2022 | 98A | Island with a trisyllabic name | David Steinberg |
| 15 Nov 2021 | 15A | Most populous Hawaiian island | Ian Rathkey |
| 14 Nov 2021 | 111A | Obama’s birthplace | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| 5 Aug 2021 | 64A | Isle known as “The Gathering Place” | Adam Wagner |
| 2 Aug 2021 | 13A | Where Honolulu is | Kyra Wilson |
| 21 Jul 2021 | 43A | Island WNW of Molokai | Alex Vratsanos |
| 1 Jul 2021 | 23D | Where the Ko’olau range is located | Joe Deeney |
| 28 Jun 2021 | 59D | Honolulu’s home | Pamela F. Davis |
| 8 Apr 2021 | 14A | Island where it once rained for 331 days straight | Jake Halperin |
| 15 Feb 2021 | 15A | Home of Waikiki Beach | Meconya Alford |
| 29 Sep 2020 | 58D | Most populous Hawaiian island | Ricky Cruz |
| 11 Sep 2020 | 16A | Where to visit the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial | Caitlin Reid and Erik Agard |
| 12 Jul 2020 | 66D | Home to the landmark Koko Crater | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| 25 Jun 2020 | 52D | Home of Daniel K. Inouye International Airport | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| 15 Jun 2020 | 25D | Hawaiian honeymoon destination | Olivia Mitra Framke |
| 21 Mar 2020 | 2D | Hanauma Bay locale | Damon Gulczynski |
| 20 Feb 2020 | 4D | Where the Ko’olau Range is located | Joe Deeney |
| 10 Jan 2020 | 29D | Locale of a noted 1941 attack | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 5 Dec 2019 | 57D | Island with a royal palace | Neville Fogarty |
| 18 Oct 2019 | 25D | Home of the all-vowel town Aiea | Jamey Smith |
| 30 Sep 2019 | 46A | Diamond Head’s island | Lynn Lempel |
| 3 Aug 2019 | 5D | Island with a state capital | Ryan McCarty |
| 21 Jul 2019 | 39D | Third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands | Jason Mueller and Jeff Chen |
| 10 Jun 2019 | 14A | Honolulu’s island | Brad Wilber |
| 11 Apr 2019 | 8D | Home to Interstates H-1, H-2 and H-3 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 2 Feb 2019 | 52A | Island formed by two shield volcanoes | David Steinberg |
| 26 Aug 2018 | 75D | Locale for Charlie Chan | Olivia Mitra Framke |
| 25 Jul 2018 | 62A | Home to the Triple Crown of Surfing | Emily Carroll |
| 18 Jul 2018 | 2D | Locale of a 12/7/1941 attack | David Steinberg |
| 9 Jul 2018 | 2D | Where Waikiki Beach is | John Lampkin |
| 1 Jun 2018 | 29A | Hanauma Bay locale | Andrew J. Ries |
| 1 Apr 2018 | 69D | Four-letter island name with three syllables | Sam Ezersky |
| 21 Mar 2018 | 22D | Setting for 19-Across | Laura Braunstein |
| 14 Jan 2018 | 109A | Home to the historic Moana Hotel | Joel Fagliano |
| 18 Oct 2017 | 11D | Obama’s birthplace | John Lithgow and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 11 Sep 2017 | 55D | Hawaiian island | Erik Agard and Paolo Pasco |
| 3 Sep 2017 | 32D | U.S.S. Missouri’s resting site | Andrew Zhou |
| 27 Aug 2017 | 100A | Location of Waimea Valley | Jeff Chen |
| 27 Apr 2017 | 53D | Home of Pearl City | Todd Gross |
| 2 Mar 2017 | 7D | Island with Diamond Head | Peter Gordon |
| 23 Feb 2017 | 12A | Home of the all-vowel-named town Aiea | Jeff Chen |
| 6 Jan 2017 | 9D | National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific locale | Jacob Stulberg |
| 5 Aug 2016 | 30A | Home of Charlie Chan | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 24 Jul 2016 | 19D | Iolani palace locale | David Steinberg |
| 22 Jun 2016 | 42A | Home of the first Dole plantation | Fred Piscop |
| 17 Feb 2016 | 32D | Locale of Kaneohe Bay | Kyle Mahowald |
| 16 Feb 2016 | 27D | Honolulu’s island | Ron and Nancy Byron |
| 20 Dec 2015 | 2D | First Ironman locale | Peter Wentz |
| 10 Dec 2015 | 60A | Setting for the George Clooney film “The Descendants” | Timothy Polin |
| 27 Sep 2015 | 42D | Site of the U.S.’s only royal palace | Tom McCoy |
| 22 Sep 2015 | 42D | Pearl Harbor location | Victor Barocas and Tom Pepper |
| 3 May 2015 | 66D | Island that may have an apostrophe in its name | Dan Schoenholz |
| 17 Feb 2015 | 12D | Frequent vacation locale for Obama | Bruce Haight |
| 18 Jan 2015 | 2D | Home of Hanauma Bay | Joe Krozel |
| 10 Dec 2014 | 41A | U.S. island with a royal palace | Tom McCoy |
| 14 Jul 2014 | 43D | Honolulu’s home | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| 29 Jun 2014 | 20A | “From Here to Eternity” setting | Byron Walden |
| 10 Jun 2014 | 40A | Home of Waikiki Beach | Pamela Klawitter |
| 23 Feb 2014 | 33D | Birthplace of 22-Across | A Namesake of 119-Across |
| 17 Nov 2013 | 2D | Home of the Waianae Range | Julian Lim |
| 16 Sep 2013 | 42D | Honolulu’s home | Ed Sessa |
| 28 Aug 2013 | 33A | Obama’s birthplace | Erik Agard |
| 21 Aug 2013 | 23D | Island with Yokohama Bay | Jonathan Gersch |
| 17 Jun 2013 | 59D | Obama’s birthplace | Johanna Fenimore and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 4 Jun 2013 | 38A | Diamond Head setting | Kristian House |
| 5 May 2013 | 52A | Obama’s birthplace | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 16 Dec 2012 | 57D | Locale of a 12/7/1941 attack | Matt Ginsberg |
| 2 Dec 2012 | 2D | Nuuanu Pali Lookout locale | Steven E. Atwood |
| 21 Oct 2012 | 76D | Waikiki locale | Caleb Rasmussen |
| 6 Sep 2012 | 37A | It was created by two volcanoes | Ben Pall |
| 11 Jul 2012 | 57D | Diamond Head’s isle | Allan E. Parrish |
| 29 Jun 2012 | 38A | Obama’s birthplace | Patrick Berry |
| 7 Nov 2011 | 58A | Hawaiian island | David Steinberg |
| 7 Aug 2011 | 38D | Hanauma Bay locale | Tony Orbach and Janie Smulyan |
| 10 Jul 2011 | 113D | Home of 102-Down | Ben Pall and David Kahn |
| 15 May 2011 | 40D | Home of Punchbowl Crater | Cathy Allis |
| 7 Nov 2010 | 85D | Home of the highways H1 and H2 | Will Nediger |
| 20 Jan 2010 | 27D | Kailua Bay’s setting | Trip Payne |
| 11 Jan 2010 | 53A | Where Obama was born | Ron and Nancy Byron |
| 8 Oct 2009 | 41D | Home of highways H-1, H-2 and H-3 | Scott Atkinson |
| 20 Sep 2009 | 108A | Aloha Tower site | Michael Ashley |
| 18 Aug 2009 | 29D | Diamond Head locale | Tony Orbach |
| 25 Jan 2009 | 34D | Home of Wheeler Army Airfield | Michael Torch |
| 4 Jan 2009 | 2D | Home of Mount Ka’ala | Daniel A. Finan |
| 29 Jul 2008 | 2D | Honolulu’s home | David Kwong and Emily Halpern |
| 25 May 2008 | 105A | “Lost” filming locale | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 20 Mar 2008 | 16A | Locale of the highways H1 and H2 | Stephen Edward Anderson |
| 6 Mar 2008 | 55D | Home of Pearl City | Pamela Amick Klawitter |
| 16 Dec 2007 | 47A | Home of golf’s Sony Open | David J. Kahn and Steve Kahn |
| 30 Nov 2007 | 51A | Island nicknamed the Gathering Place | Henry Hook |
| 31 Oct 2007 | 63A | Honolulu’s home | Ken Stern |
| 30 Oct 2007 | 61D | Island with Waimea Bay | Gary Steinmehl |
| 22 Sep 2007 | 10D | Bishop Museum setting | Mark Diehl |
| 11 Sep 2007 | 27D | Waikiki Beach locale | Christina Houlihan Kelly |
| 4 Sep 2007 | 56A | Iolani Palace locale | Manny Nosowsky |
| 3 Jul 2007 | 4D | Pearl Harbor site | Norma Johnson |
| 2 May 2007 | 4D | Waikiki locale | Richard Silvestri |
| 29 Jan 2007 | 51D | Pearl Harbor’s site | Fred Piscop |
| 24 Sep 2006 | 59D | Pearl City setting | Mark Diehl and Kevin McCann |
| 10 Aug 2006 | 12D | Filming location of ABC’s “Lost” | Todd McClary |
| 6 Aug 2006 | 39D | Locale of Interstate H1 | Mark Feldman |
| 25 Apr 2006 | 46D | Where Pearl City is | Kevan Choset |
| 12 Apr 2006 | 2D | Home of the bygone Aloha Bowl | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 8 Jan 2006 | 95D | Home of the superhighways H1, H2 and H3 | Michael Ashley |
| 12 Jun 2005 | 21A | Home of Interstate H1 | Joe Bower |
| 14 May 2005 | 25A | “Magnum P.I.” setting | Bob Peoples |
| 13 Mar 2005 | 111D | Diamond Head’s home | Patrick Merrell |
| 10 Aug 2004 | 1A | Home to Honolulu | Sarah Keller |
| 5 Aug 2004 | 25D | “From Here to Eternity” island | Seth Abel |
| 19 May 2004 | 34D | Island with Kaala Peak | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 24 Mar 2004 | 14A | Diamond Head site | Norma Johnson |
| 15 Mar 2004 | 14A | Hawaiian island | Patrick Merrell |
| 29 Feb 2004 | 105D | Aiea locale | Patrick Merrell |
| 7 Dec 2003 | 35D | Home of Iolani Palace | Sherry O. Blackard |
| 3 Jul 2003 | 16A | Where Pearl City is | Cathy Millhauser |
| 28 Feb 2003 | 5D | Island known as “The Gathering Place” | Manny Nosowsky |
| 23 Dec 2002 | 16A | Where Pearl Harbor is | Lisa Bunker |
| 9 Dec 2002 | 25D | Home to Honolulu | Sarah Keller |
| 29 Oct 2002 | 61A | Pearl Harbor locale | Richard Hughes |
| 7 Jul 2002 | 63A | Diamond Head locale | Lloyd E. Pollet |
| 30 Jun 2002 | 74A | See 54-Across | Joe DiPietro |
| 21 Feb 2002 | 13A | Where football’s Pro Bowl is played | Peter Gordon |
| 23 Dec 2001 | 2D | Site of “interstates” H1, H2 and H3 | Frances Hansen |
| 5 Apr 2001 | 15A | Koko Head locale | Cathy Millhauser |
| 19 Sep 2000 | 57A | Honolulu’s island | Myles Callum |
| 27 Aug 2000 | 66A | “Magnum, P.I.” setting | Dana Motley |
| 13 Mar 2000 | 55A | Diamond Head locale | David J. Kahn |
| 4 Dec 1999 | 55D | Diamond Head locale | Rich Norris |
| 22 Nov 1999 | 61D | Honolulu’s location | Frances Hansen |
| 1 Sep 1999 | 31A | Pearl Harbor locale | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 3 Aug 1999 | 52D | Waikiki’s island | Dave Tuller |
| 6 Apr 1999 | 7D | Hawaiian island | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| 24 Feb 1999 | 67A | “Hawaii Five-O” locale | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| 7 Jun 1998 | 92D | Diamond Head locale | Randolph Ross |
| 29 Mar 1998 | 104A | Home of Wheeler Air Force Base | Robert H. Wolfe |
| 20 Mar 1998 | 35D | Kahuku setting | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| 19 Feb 1998 | 35D | Home of Hickam Air Force Base | A. J. Santora |
| 1 Jul 1997 | 63A | Island near Kauai | Fred Piscop |
| 14 May 1997 | 34D | Island near Kauai | Norman S. Wizer |
| 18 Feb 1997 | 36A | Diamond Head locale | F. Piscop |
| 27 Apr 1996 | 31A | Hawaiian “gathering place” | F. Hansen |
| 24 Apr 1996 | 33D | Site of the Koolau Range | G. Dean |
| 21 Feb 1996 | 15A | Diamond Head site | F. & L. Sabin |
| 12 Feb 1996 | 26D | Honolulu’s site | S. Robbins |
| 16 Aug 1995 | 12A | Honolulu’s island | Judith Perry |
| 4 Jan 1995 | 19D | Pearl Harbor site | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| 7 Sep 1994 | 50D | Kauai neighbor | Cathy Millhauser |
| 15 May 1994 | 20A | Site of Hickam Air Force Base | Charles M. Deber |
| 19 Jan 1994 | 61D | Waikiki locale | Stanley Newman |
| 22 Nov 1993 | 4D | Honolulu locale | Fred Piscop |
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