RITA is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for RITA in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "RITA" answer was first appeared in "7 Apr 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Singer Coolidge". It was authored by Fred Piscop/Will Shortz. Recently, the "RITA" answer has been used for "19 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Singer Ora". It was authored by Seth Weitberg. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "“Lovely” Beatles girl". "RITA" appeared 126 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "RITA" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2023 | 26D | Singer Ora | Seth Weitberg |
| 26 Jul 2023 | 49D | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Mary Crane |
| 16 Apr 2023 | 82D | The Beatles’ “Lovely ___” | Mike Hobin |
| 10 Jul 2022 | 95A | Journalist Skeeter in the Harry Potter books | Christina Iverson and Scott Hogan |
| 17 Apr 2022 | 33A | Lime-A-___ (alcoholic beverage) | Emet Ozar / Will Shortz |
| 4 Mar 2022 | 15D | Actress Wilson | David Distenfeld / Will Shortz |
| 10 Dec 2021 | 24A | Wilson on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | Joe DiPietro / Will Shortz |
| 24 Oct 2021 | 32D | Actress Moreno | Katie Hale / Will Shortz |
| 8 Oct 2021 | 30D | Eponym for an Italian ice chain | Yacob Yonas / Will Shortz |
| 8 Sep 2021 | 32A | Singer Ora | Lee Taylor / Will Shortz |
| 26 May 2021 | 37A | Poet Dove | Will Nediger / Will Shortz |
| 5 Feb 2021 | 22A | ___ Dove, former U.S. poet laureate | Erik Agard / Will Shortz |
| 15 Aug 2020 | 14A | Romance novelist’s award | Joe DiPietro / Will Shortz |
| 14 Aug 2020 | 8D | Former U.S. poet laureate Dove | Nam Jin Yoon / Will Shortz |
| 9 Aug 2020 | 58A | Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin / Will Shortz |
| 26 Apr 2020 | 30A | Pop singer Ora | Royce Ferguson / Will Shortz |
| 30 Mar 2020 | 66A | Actress Moreno or Hayworth | Lee Taylor / Will Shortz |
| 16 Sep 2019 | 48D | Moreno of “West Side Story” | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau / Will Shortz |
| 5 May 2019 | 3D | Singer Ora with three solo #1 hits in Britain | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson / Will Shortz |
| 8 Oct 2018 | 16A | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Jacob Stulberg / Will Shortz |
| 12 Aug 2018 | 101A | Actress Moreno | Ross Trudeau / Will Shortz |
| 5 Dec 2017 | 24A | “Lovely ___” (Beatles song) | Harry Smith and Zhouqin Burnikel / Will Shortz |
| 18 Apr 2017 | 38A | Meter maid of song | Bruce Haight / Will Shortz |
| 13 Apr 2017 | 55D | Actress Moreno | Michael Shteyman / Will Shortz |
| 19 Aug 2016 | 56D | Beatles title girl with a “little white book” | Paolo Pasco / Will Shortz |
| 18 Nov 2015 | 60D | “Lovely ___, meter maid” (Beatles lyric) | Zachary Spitz / Will Shortz |
| 26 Oct 2015 | 3D | Hayworth who danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly | Bruce Haight / Will Shortz |
| 24 Oct 2014 | 11D | “Lovely” one of song | Patrick Blindauer / Will Shortz |
| 6 Aug 2014 | 17A | Memorable 2005 Gulf hurricane | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 23 Feb 2014 | 25D | Beatles title girl | A Namesake of 119-Across / Will Shortz |
| 26 Jan 2014 | 17D | Moreno of “West Side Story” | Daniel A. Finan / Will Shortz |
| 5 Nov 2013 | 55D | Journalist Skeeter of the Harry Potter books | Paula Gamache / Will Shortz |
| 15 Oct 2013 | 2D | Meter maid of song | Patrick Blindauer and Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
| 10 Aug 2013 | 11D | Romance novelist’s award | Chris A. McGlothlin / Will Shortz |
| 12 Jun 2013 | 58A | Moreno of “West Side Story” | Todd Gross / Will Shortz |
| 19 May 2013 | 11A | Actress Hayworth | Jean O’Conor / Will Shortz |
| 11 Sep 2012 | 22A | Actress Hayworth | Kenneth Leeser / Will Shortz |
| 15 Aug 2012 | 41A | Girl in a Beatles title | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 21 Nov 2011 | 42A | Funnywoman Rudner | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 1 Oct 2011 | 5D | Annual romance writer’s award | David Quarfoot / Will Shortz |
| 27 Sep 2011 | 36D | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jan 2011 | 25A | Actress Hayworth | Ian Livengood / Will Shortz |
| 8 Nov 2010 | 2D | Hayworth of “Cover Girl” | John Dunn / Will Shortz |
| 25 May 2010 | 21D | Meter maid of song | Sarah Keller / Will Shortz |
| 16 Mar 2010 | 61A | Poet laureate Dove | Paula Gamache / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jan 2010 | 15A | Beatles meter maid | C. W. Stewart / Will Shortz |
| 7 Oct 2009 | 46D | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Tim Wescott / Will Shortz |
| 20 Nov 2008 | 26D | Singer Coolidge | Pete Muller / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jul 2008 | 43A | “Lovely” Beatles girl | David Kwong and Emily Halpern / Will Shortz |
| 2 Jun 2008 | 63A | The Beatles’ “Lovely ___” | Barry Boone / Will Shortz |
| 10 Feb 2008 | 6D | Comic Rudner | Bill Zais / Will Shortz |
| 4 Jun 2007 | 37D | “Lovely ___, meter maid” (Beatles lyric) | Steve Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 10 Apr 2007 | 17A | Beatles girl “filling in a ticket in her little white book” | Kevan Choset / Will Shortz |
| 22 Mar 2007 | 51D | Hurricane of 2005 | Karen M. Tracey / Will Shortz |
| 16 Mar 2007 | 48D | Reporter Skeeter of Harry Potter novels | Eric Berlin / Will Shortz |
| 6 Mar 2007 | 19A | Meter maid of song | Paula Gamache / Will Shortz |
| 24 Oct 2006 | 56D | Meter maid of song | Gail Grabowski / Will Shortz |
| 17 Sep 2006 | 7D | Missing from 37-Across | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 14 Sep 2006 | 17A | Novelist ___ Mae Brown | Karen M. Tracey / Will Shortz |
| 9 Sep 2006 | 25A | Romance fiction award | Bob Klahn / Will Shortz |
| 22 Aug 2006 | 55D | Pinup Hayworth | Michael J. Doran / Will Shortz |
| 18 May 2006 | 56A | Title girl in a song by 35-Down | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 18 Apr 2006 | 2D | Hayworth of “Pal Joey” | Pete Muller / Will Shortz |
| 23 Jan 2006 | 46A | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Mark T. Milhet / Will Shortz |
| 29 Sep 2005 | 24A | Singer Coolidge | Sam Bellotto Jr. / Will Shortz |
| 10 May 2005 | 18A | Beatles meter maid | Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 4 Dec 2004 | 23A | Romance novelist’s award | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 1 Dec 2004 | 17A | Comic Rudner | Roy Leban / Will Shortz |
| 9 Nov 2004 | 39A | Comic Rudner | Robert Dillman / Will Shortz |
| 4 Aug 2004 | 61A | Girl in Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5” | Raymond Hamel / Will Shortz |
| 15 Feb 2004 | 12D | Girl in a Beatles song | Derrick Niederman / Will Shortz |
| 18 Nov 2003 | 68A | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Denise M. Neuendorf / Will Shortz |
| 30 Jan 2003 | 22D | “Rubyfruit Jungle” novelist ___ Mae Brown | Alan Arbesfeld / Will Shortz |
| 27 Jan 2003 | 54A | Comedian Rudner | Stanley Newman / Will Shortz |
| 27 Dec 2002 | 26D | Romance novelist’s award | Sherry O. Blackard / Will Shortz |
| 11 Dec 2002 | 35D | Meter maid of song | Alan Arbesfeld / Will Shortz |
| 26 Oct 2002 | 53A | Novelist ___ Mae Brown | Rich Norris / Will Shortz |
| 6 Oct 2002 | 109D | Meter maid of song | Myles Callum / Will Shortz |
| 2 Sep 2002 | 26A | Sultry Hayworth | Norma Johnson and Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 18 Jun 2002 | 63A | Moreno of “West Side Story” | Eugene W. Sard / Will Shortz |
| 17 Jan 2002 | 21A | Dove with a Pulitzer | Sherry O. Blackard / Will Shortz |
| 22 Jan 2001 | 38A | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Nancy Kavanaugh / Will Shortz |
| 29 Nov 2000 | 24D | “Educating ___” (1983 film) | Peter Gordon / Will Shortz |
| 10 Nov 2000 | 32A | The Beatles’ “Lovely ___” | Bob Klahn / Will Shortz |
| 24 Oct 2000 | 7D | Singer Coolidge | Alan Arbesfeld / Will Shortz |
| 20 Sep 2000 | 34D | Singer Coolidge | Edgar R. Fontaine / Will Shortz |
| 19 Jul 2000 | 59A | Meter maid of song | Philip Lew / Will Shortz |
| 1 Jun 2000 | 25D | Multitalented Moreno | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 10 May 2000 | 14A | Comic Rudner | Zack Butler / Will Shortz |
| 16 Aug 1999 | 60D | Beatles’ meter maid | M. Francis Vuolo / Will Shortz |
| 31 Jan 1999 | 78A | Singer Coolidge | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 14 Jan 1999 | 17A | CBS reporter Braver | Rand H. Burns / Will Shortz |
| 9 Jan 1999 | 5D | Title woman in a Beatles song | Harvey Estes / Will Shortz |
| 28 Nov 1998 | 25A | Romance writer’s reward | Gilbert H. Ludwig / Will Shortz |
| 1 Nov 1998 | 114D | Poet Dove | Robert Malinow / Will Shortz |
| 27 May 1998 | 66A | “Lovely” Beatles girl | Mark Elliot Skolsky / Will Shortz |
| 22 Mar 1998 | 60A | Author ___ Mae Brown | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon / Will Shortz |
| 20 Nov 1997 | 57D | Romance writer’s award | Raymond Hamel / Will Shortz |
| 11 Nov 1997 | 59D | Meter maid of song | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 15 Oct 1997 | 33D | The Beatles’ meter maid | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 7 Oct 1997 | 64A | Rudner of comedy | Richard Hughes / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jul 1997 | 43A | Former U.S. poet laureate ___ Dove | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 9 Jun 1997 | 18A | Actress Hayworth | Thomas W. Schier / Will Shortz |
| 30 May 1997 | 25A | She played Gilda in “Gilda” | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 29 Mar 1997 | 50D | Romance writer’s award | Fran and Lou Sabin / Will Shortz |
| 27 Feb 1997 | 13A | “Lovely ___” (1967 song) | Raymond C. Young / Will Shortz |
| 14 Jan 1997 | 36D | Singer Coolidge | E. C. Gorski / W. Shortz |
| 4 Nov 1996 | 16A | Moreno of “West Side Story” | P. Wilson / W. Shortz |
| 14 May 1996 | 65A | Singer Coolidge | G. E. Paul / W. Shortz |
| 13 May 1996 | 51A | Actress Moreno | S. L. Robbins / W. Shortz |
| 30 Nov 1995 | 15A | Lovely ticketer of song | Susan Smith/Will Shortz |
| 28 Nov 1995 | 51D | Pinup Hayworth | Norman S. Wizer/Will Shortz |
| 26 Nov 1995 | 92A | Beatles girl | Harvey Estes/Will Shortz |
| 13 Oct 1995 | 22A | Comedienne Rudner | Charles E. Gersch/Will Shortz |
| 16 Jul 1995 | 89D | Miss Hayworth | Naomi Geller Lipsky/Will Shortz |
| 24 Jun 1995 | 15A | One of Orson’s exes | Bob & Sharon Klahn/Will Shortz |
| 6 Jun 1995 | 3D | Actress Hayworth | Sidney L. Robbins/Will Shortz |
| 25 Mar 1995 | 24A | Tushingham of “Doctor Zhivago” | Walter Webb/Will Shortz |
| 16 Dec 1994 | 26A | Novelist ___ Mae Brown | A.J. Santora / Will Shortz |
| 13 Nov 1994 | 17D | Actress Moreno | Frank A. Longo/Will Shortz |
| 2 Nov 1994 | 10D | Beatles’ meter maid | Harvey Estes/Will Shortz |
| 16 Sep 1994 | 29D | U.S. poet laureate ___ Dove | Randolph Ross / Will Shortz |
| 4 Jul 1994 | 16A | Comic Rudner | Joel Davajan / Will Shortz |
| 11 Jun 1994 | 3D | Girl in a Beatles song | Daniel R. Stark / Will Shortz |
| 7 Jun 1994 | 58D | Comic Rudner | Ernie Furtado/Will Shortz |
| 7 Apr 1994 | 21D | Singer Coolidge | Fred Piscop/Will Shortz |
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