SERIF is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for SERIF in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "SERIF" answer was first appeared in "19 Jun 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Typeface line". It was authored by Nancy Scandrett Ross/Will Shortz. Recently, the "SERIF" answer has been used for "19 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Typographical embellishment". It was authored by Seth Weitberg. "SERIF" appeared 52 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "SERIF" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2023 | 11D | Typographical embellishment | Seth Weitberg |
| 14 Oct 2022 | 61A | Line on a letter | David Steinberg |
| 14 Mar 2022 | 51D | Typographical flourish | Stephen Hiltner / Will Shortz |
| 12 Oct 2021 | 1D | Font flourish | Conor Sefkow / Will Shortz |
| 23 Aug 2021 | 23A | Typographical flourish | Bruce Haight / Will Shortz |
| 23 May 2021 | 103D | Font flourish | Jennifer Nebergall / Will Shortz |
| 24 Dec 2020 | 38D | Font flourish | Billy Ouska / Will Shortz |
| 14 Dec 2020 | 61A | See 64-Across | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau / Will Shortz |
| 4 Nov 2020 | 38D | Roman font feature | Jack Murtagh / Will Shortz |
| 2 Sep 2020 | 6D | Font flourish | Margaret Seikel / Will Shortz |
| 30 Mar 2020 | 65A | Typographic flourish | Lee Taylor / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jan 2020 | 6D | Stroke on a letter | Jeremy Newton / Will Shortz |
| 9 Apr 2019 | 25A | Cans / Letter flourish | Alex Eaton-Salners / Will Shortz |
| 17 Mar 2019 | 47A | What the “sans” refers to in Comic Sans | Sophia Maymudes and Jeff Chen / Will Shortz |
| 22 Dec 2018 | 7D | Small flourish | Joon Pahk / Will Shortz |
| 21 Nov 2018 | 46D | Sans-___ | Brandon Koppy / Will Shortz |
| 24 Sep 2018 | 21D | Sans ___ (font type) | Michael Black / Will Shortz |
| 25 Oct 2017 | 14D | Feature of a letter in the Times Roman typeface | Jules P. Markey / Will Shortz |
| 22 May 2017 | 60D | Feature lacked by Helvetica type | Gary Kennedy / Will Shortz |
| 10 Mar 2017 | 28A | End of a letter | Pawel Fludzinski / Will Shortz |
| 26 Feb 2017 | 43D | Letter feature | Josh Knapp / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jan 2017 | 76A | See 125-Across | Jim Hyres and David Steinberg / Will Shortz |
| 6 Oct 2016 | 33D | Letter embellishment | Timothy Polin / Will Shortz |
| 11 Jul 2016 | 7D | Feature of a font | Freddie Cheng / Will Shortz |
| 13 Sep 2015 | 18D | Something an “o” lacks | Joe DiPietro / Will Shortz |
| 19 Jan 2014 | 64D | Line in writing | Dan Schoenholz / Will Shortz |
| 31 Jul 2012 | 49A | Sans-___ (kind of typeface) | Michael Sharp / Will Shortz |
| 14 Jun 2012 | 40A | Calligraphy detail | Tracy Gray / Will Shortz |
| 12 Sep 2011 | 43D | Letter flourish | Keith Talon / Will Shortz |
| 27 Feb 2011 | 7D | Letter’s end? | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 19 Oct 2009 | 58A | Tiny flourish on a letter | Lynn Lempel / Will Shortz |
| 9 Sep 2009 | 2D | Times Roman typeface feature | Richard Chisholm / Will Shortz |
| 19 Jan 2008 | 35D | Letter finisher | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jul 2007 | 88D | Line of text? | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 13 Apr 2007 | 45A | The letter O doesn’t have one | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 14 Mar 2007 | 54D | Letter feature | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 18 Feb 2007 | 71D | Font feature | David Kwong and Kevan Choset / Will Shortz |
| 22 Jan 2005 | 27D | See 52-Down | Byron Walden / Will Shortz |
| 30 May 2004 | 84A | Stroke in calligraphy | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 20 Nov 2002 | 52A | Stroke of the pen? | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 9 Jul 2002 | 23A | Letter adornment | Robert Malinow / Will Shortz |
| 12 Apr 2000 | 34A | Sans-___ type | Peter Gordon / Will Shortz |
| 26 Dec 1999 | 106D | Typographical flourish | Greg Staples / Will Shortz |
| 15 Oct 1999 | 51D | Line of type | Mark Diehl / Will Shortz |
| 29 Nov 1998 | 11D | Part of a letter | Matt Gaffney / Will Shortz |
| 22 Oct 1998 | 48A | Printing flourish | Chuck Deodene / Will Shortz |
| 15 Jul 1998 | 60A | Feature of many letters | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 25 Jun 1997 | 68A | Line of type | Elizabeth Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 5 May 1997 | 42D | Printing flourish | Stephanie Spadaccini / Will Shortz |
| 24 Feb 1997 | 11D | Printing flourish | Derek Allen / Will Shortz |
| 29 Oct 1995 | 46D | Line of type | Maura B. Jacobson / Will Shortz |
| 19 Jun 1994 | 9D | Typeface line | Nancy Scandrett Ross/Will Shortz |
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