OXEN is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for OXEN in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "OXEN" answer was first appeared in "15 Aug 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "The yoke’s on them (10)". It was authored by Fred Piscop. Recently, the "OXEN" answer has been used for "31 Oct 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Yoked animals (3)". It was authored by Kathy Lowden and Erik Piepenburg. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Plow pullers (12)". "OXEN" appeared 144 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "OXEN" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Oct 2023 | 56D | Yoked animals | Kathy Lowden and Erik Piepenburg |
| 10 Oct 2023 | 6D | Plow-pulling animals | Nate Cardin |
| 21 Sep 2023 | 57D | Animals on Nebraska’s state quarter | Dan Caprera |
| 29 Jul 2023 | 47D | Weight pullers | Sam Ezersky |
| 23 May 2023 | 4D | Plow pullers | Lee Taylor |
| 17 Jan 2023 | 10D | Plow-pulling pair | Erika Ettin |
| 26 Dec 2022 | 67A | Yoke-wearing animals | Kurt Weller |
| 15 Apr 2022 | 50A | Draft teammates? | Trenton Charlson |
| 19 Jan 2022 | 16A | Ones with a lot of pull in agriculture? | Ori Brian |
| 10 Aug 2021 | 24A | Cart pullers | Anne Grae Martin |
| 22 Feb 2021 | 57D | Animals in a yoke | Barbara Lin |
| 7 Nov 2020 | 3D | Some travelers along the Oregon Trail | Kameron Austin Collins and Paolo Pasco |
| 17 Sep 2020 | 12D | They work as a team | Simeon Seigel |
| 22 Jun 2020 | 13A | Team members that can pull more than their weight on the field? | Sid Sivakumar |
| 13 Apr 2020 | 25A | Team pulling a plow | Evan Kalish |
| 13 Aug 2019 | 49A | Yoked pair in a field | Lynn Lempel |
| 12 Jul 2019 | 11D | Farm team | Evan Kalish |
| 15 Jan 2019 | 15A | Big farm workers | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| 16 Jul 2018 | 18A | Yoked animals | Erik Agard |
| 21 May 2018 | 66A | Plow pullers | Hannah Slovut |
| 16 Feb 2018 | 3D | Strong team | David Steinberg |
| 16 Dec 2017 | 56D | Creatures captured in Hercules’ 10th labor | Sam Ezersky |
| 5 Aug 2017 | 53A | Draft picks? | David Phillips |
| 4 Oct 2016 | 56D | Headstrong animals | Sam Buchbinder |
| 17 Feb 2016 | 25A | Ones with a lot of pull in the agricultural world? | Kyle Mahowald |
| 8 Nov 2015 | 73A | Draft picks? | Tracy Gray |
| 26 Oct 2015 | 22A | The yoke’s on them | Bruce Haight |
| 5 May 2015 | 11D | Animals in a yoke | Michael Blake and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| 9 Feb 2015 | 15A | Animals in a yoke | Lynn Lempel |
| 23 Dec 2014 | 2D | Plural animal name that does not end in “-s” | Bruce Haight |
| 2 Dec 2014 | 2D | Wagon pullers | Timothy Polin |
| 20 Jul 2014 | 9D | Field team | Eric Berlin |
| 5 May 2014 | 25D | Yoked animals | Lynn Lempel |
| 8 Apr 2014 | 16A | Plow beasts | Ian Livengood |
| 14 Nov 2013 | 15A | The yoke’s on them | Tom McCoy |
| 19 Oct 2013 | 45A | Symbols of strength | Peter Wentz |
| 9 Apr 2013 | 47D | Pullers in pairs | Steve Blais |
| 16 Dec 2012 | 86A | Ones with a lot of pull? | Matt Ginsberg |
| 12 Nov 2012 | 14A | Plow animals | Randall J. Hartman |
| 28 Aug 2012 | 12D | “Olly olly ___ free” | Lou Borenstein |
| 2 Jul 2012 | 16A | Plow pullers | Bernice Gordon |
| 12 May 2012 | 32D | Draft team | Caleb Madison |
| 23 Feb 2012 | 16A | Team members | Jeff Chen |
| 31 Jan 2012 | 13D | Plow-pulling pair | Doug Peterson |
| 9 Jun 2011 | 65A | Drawing pair, perhaps | Joon Pahk |
| 5 Jun 2011 | 32D | Symbols of strength | Yaakov Bendavid |
| 26 Apr 2011 | 2D | The yoke’s on them | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 28 Mar 2011 | 28D | Yoked pair | Robyn Weintraub |
| 11 Dec 2010 | 35D | Draft team | Paula Gamache |
| 29 Nov 2010 | 6D | Plow team | Elizabeth A. Long |
| 4 Nov 2010 | 45D | They’re drafted for service | Mike Nothnagel |
| 18 Aug 2010 | 59D | Plow pullers | Alex Boisvert |
| 28 Jun 2010 | 69A | Pair with a plow | Joel Fagliano |
| 16 Jun 2010 | 59D | Beasts in a span | Joe Krozel |
| 13 Apr 2010 | 5D | Paul Bunyan’s Babe and others | Alex Boisvert |
| 7 Apr 2010 | 63A | Yoked pair | Richard Silvestri |
| 6 Mar 2010 | 26D | Some team members | Barry Silk |
| 29 Dec 2009 | 43A | Pullers in pairs | Peter A. Collins |
| 1 Sep 2009 | 16A | Cart-pulling beasts | Steven Ginzburg |
| 30 Jun 2009 | 18D | Plow team | Steve Dobis |
| 14 Jun 2009 | 6A | Team components | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 14 Apr 2009 | 58A | Farm team | Barry Boone |
| 16 Feb 2009 | 19A | Animals that might hear “gee” and “haw” | David Kwong |
| 26 Jan 2009 | 16A | Plow team | Timothy Powell and Nancy Salomon |
| 3 Nov 2008 | 50D | Plow team | Susan Gelfand |
| 28 Sep 2008 | 3D | Yak pack | Cathy Allis Millhauser |
| 20 Aug 2008 | 53D | Teamed beasts | Allan E. Parrish |
| 18 Jun 2008 | 15A | Workers in the field | Adam Fromm |
| 15 May 2008 | 57A | They’ve got a lot of pull | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 3 Apr 2008 | 14A | Big pullers | Kevin G. Der |
| 18 Dec 2007 | 64A | Plow pullers | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 4 Nov 2007 | 52D | Symbols of strength | Bob Klahn |
| 22 Oct 2007 | 69A | Plow pullers | Lynn Lempel |
| 26 Mar 2007 | 64A | Plow pullers | Eric Fischer |
| 20 Feb 2007 | 55D | Plow pullers | Jonathan Gersch |
| 22 Dec 2006 | 52D | Strong team | Mike Nothnagel |
| 14 Dec 2006 | 53D | Animals in harness | Ed Early |
| 18 Oct 2006 | 16A | Plowers | John Farmer |
| 11 Sep 2006 | 55D | Yoked beasts | Lynn Lempel |
| 8 Aug 2006 | 2D | Yoke wearers | Ed Early |
| 21 Mar 2006 | 8D | Plow pullers | Levi Denham |
| 11 Mar 2006 | 16A | Draft choices? | David Quarfoot |
| 31 Oct 2005 | 51D | Field team | Jim Hyres |
| 18 Sep 2005 | 84A | Coachmen : horses :: bullwhackers : ___ | Joe DiPietro |
| 13 Sep 2005 | 16A | Plow team | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| 22 May 2005 | 113A | Yaks | A. J. Santora |
| 4 Jan 2005 | 7D | Yoked team | John Underwood |
| 3 Oct 2004 | 106A | Members of a span | Randolph Ross |
| 12 Sep 2004 | 42D | Farm team | Patrick Berry |
| 1 Jul 2004 | 50D | Alternatives to mules | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| 1 Apr 2004 | 49D | Yokemates | Byron Walden |
| 8 Feb 2004 | 89A | Strong team | Randolph Ross |
| 17 Sep 2003 | 33A | The yoke’s on them | Richard Silvestri |
| 27 Jul 2003 | 123A | Chinese calendar animals | Michael Grudzielanek |
| 23 Oct 2002 | 16A | Yoked beasts | Nancy Salomon and Nancy T. Shack |
| 10 Oct 2002 | 67A | Babe and others | Richard Silvestri |
| 9 Oct 2002 | 18A | They can take a yoke | Peter Gordon |
| 21 Sep 2002 | 11D | What Hercules captured from Geryon | Rich Norris |
| 20 Jun 2002 | 48D | Farm team | Steve Jones |
| 18 Jun 2002 | 27D | Yoked pair | Eugene W. Sard |
| 22 Apr 2002 | 15A | Yoked beasts | Peter Gordon |
| 6 Apr 2002 | 55D | Draft team | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 27 Feb 2002 | 3D | Big bovines | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 24 Feb 2002 | 75A | The yoke’s on them | Manny Nosowsky |
| 3 Feb 2002 | 48D | Farm team | Richard Silvestri |
| 20 Dec 2001 | 21A | Team members | Rich Norris |
| 22 Jul 2001 | 73A | Draft picks? | Patrick Berry |
| 23 Apr 2001 | 17A | Plow pullers | Gregory E. Paul |
| 13 Mar 2001 | 18A | Big bovines | Michael S. Maurer |
| 17 Jan 2001 | 16A | Beasts in a span | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 9 Dec 2000 | 35D | The yoke’s on them | Patrick Berry |
| 26 Sep 2000 | 65A | They have pull | Bill Ballard |
| 14 May 2000 | 88A | Teammates | Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon |
| 30 Dec 1999 | 67A | Ones with pull? | Alan Jay Weiss |
| 12 Jun 1999 | 55D | Span pair | Matt Gaffney |
| 31 Jan 1999 | 62D | Team components | Manny Nosowsky |
| 12 Nov 1998 | 25D | Team mates? | David J. Kahn |
| 7 Apr 1998 | 65A | Big bovines | Randy Sowell |
| 11 Mar 1998 | 4D | The yoke’s on them | Bette Sue Cohen |
| 5 Dec 1997 | 28D | Conestoga haulers | Craig Kasper and Dave Tuller |
| 27 Nov 1997 | 50D | Farm team | Kiran S. Kedlaya |
| 28 Oct 1997 | 62A | Pre-tractor farmer’s need | Bernice Gordon |
| 9 Jun 1997 | 15A | Plow animals | Thomas W. Schier |
| 15 May 1997 | 66A | Epitome of 41-Across | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| 10 May 1997 | 55D | Farm team | Isabel Walcott |
| 7 Apr 1997 | 16A | They can take a yoke | Teresa M. Hackett |
| 25 Mar 1997 | 14A | Plow pullers | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 15 Mar 1997 | 10D | Farm team | Daniel R. Stark |
| 6 Feb 1997 | 31A | The yoke’s on them | D. J. Kahn |
| 23 Jan 1997 | 31D | Team members | F. Hansen |
| 21 Oct 1996 | 14A | Yoke wearers | J. Bender |
| 2 Oct 1996 | 40A | They can take a yoke | K. Hodge |
| 7 May 1996 | 56D | The yoke’s on them | K. Hodge |
| 23 Nov 1995 | 17A | Yaks | Dorothy Elliott |
| 13 Jul 1995 | 2D | They have pull | A.J. Santora |
| 16 May 1995 | 16A | Plow animals | David J. Kahn |
| 8 Dec 1994 | 27D | Cart pullers | Randolph Ross |
| 18 Nov 1994 | 6D | Ex-bulls | Timothy S. Lewis |
| 22 Oct 1994 | 55D | Slow movers | Daniel R. Stark |
| 4 Oct 1994 | 52D | Farm team | Stanley B. Whitten |
| 27 Sep 1994 | 50D | Clumsy ones? | Eileen Lexau |
| 19 Sep 1994 | 15A | Beasts of burden | Wayne Robert Williams |
| 22 Aug 1994 | 2D | Plow pullers | Sidney L. Robbins |
| 15 Aug 1994 | 51D | The yoke’s on them | Fred Piscop |
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