SKA is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for SKA in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "SKA" answer was first appeared in "26 Jan 1994" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Some popular music". It was authored by Kenneth Haxton. Recently, the "SKA" answer has been used for "4 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Upbeat precursor to reggae". It was authored by Sean Ziebarth. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Reggae relative (18)". "SKA" appeared 134 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "SKA" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Dec 2023 | 1D | Upbeat precursor to reggae | Sean Ziebarth |
| 2 Dec 2023 | 48A | ___ punk (genre for No Doubt) | Royce Ferguson |
| 24 Oct 2023 | 60D | Music genre that influenced the Clash | Daniel Grinberg |
| 12 Sep 2023 | 64D | Precursor to rocksteady | Ella Dershowitz |
| 10 Sep 2023 | 10D | Reggae forerunner | Adam Wagner |
| 6 Sep 2023 | 59D | Rocksteady precursor | Blake Slonecker |
| 26 Aug 2023 | 32A | Product from Jamaica | Adrian Johnson |
| 21 Aug 2023 | 1A | Jamaican music genre | Jennifer Nutt |
| 27 Jun 2023 | 41D | Reggae relative | Anthony Gisonda |
| 21 Jun 2023 | 48A | Music genre originating in Jamaica | Jimmy Peniston |
| 26 Apr 2023 | 69A | Genre for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones | Aaron M. Rosenberg |
| 24 Jul 2022 | 42A | Reggae-like genre | Jessie Trudeau and Ross Trudeau |
| 19 Jul 2022 | 25A | Precursor to rocksteady and reggae | Andy Kravis |
| 21 Jun 2022 | 28A | ___ punk (fusion genre with Jamaican rhythms) | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 16 Apr 2022 | 21A | Forerunner of rocksteady | Hemant Mehta |
| 15 Feb 2022 | 43D | Reggae relative | Claire Rimkus |
| 9 Dec 2021 | 68A | ___-core (punk offshoot) | Alexander Liebeskind |
| 16 Oct 2021 | 1A | It’s said to have been born on Orange Street, in Kingston, Jamaica | Caitlin Reid and Erik Agard |
| 21 Sep 2021 | 30D | Reggae relative | Daniel Okulitch |
| 15 Jul 2021 | 59A | Genre for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones | Max Carpenter |
| 26 Nov 2020 | 22A | Precursor of rocksteady | Neville Fogarty |
| 23 Nov 2020 | 52A | Reggae relative | Stanley Newman |
| 12 Nov 2020 | 25A | Genre for the group Sublime | Kristian House |
| 11 Oct 2020 | 122D | Genre pioneered in 1950s-’60s Jamaica | Gary Larson |
| 22 Feb 2020 | 45A | Jamaican genre | Trenton Charlson |
| 20 Jan 2020 | 52A | Reggae relative | Evan Kalish |
| 25 Nov 2019 | 15D | Reggae relative | Daniel Mauer |
| 31 Aug 2019 | 24A | ___ punk (music hybrid) | Brian Thomas |
| 2 Jan 2019 | 13D | Genre of the band Less Than Jake | Jacob Stulberg |
| 11 Jun 2018 | 42D | Some Jamaican music | Gary Cee |
| 7 May 2018 | 57A | Musical cousin of calypso | Julie Bérubé |
| 11 Apr 2018 | 20A | Jamaican music genre | Keiran King |
| 25 Feb 2018 | 5D | Jamaican export | Will Nediger |
| 25 Jan 2018 | 4D | Music boomlet of the mid-’90s | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| 5 Oct 2017 | 58D | Reggae forerunner | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 22 Aug 2017 | 37D | Calypso-influenced genre | Timothy Polin |
| 7 Aug 2017 | 41A | Reggae relative | Kevin Christian |
| 14 May 2017 | 26A | Prince Buster’s genre | Will Nediger |
| 3 Apr 2017 | 36D | Cousin of calypso | Agnes Davidson and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| 7 Mar 2017 | 29A | Reggae relative | Freddie Cheng |
| 8 Feb 2017 | 32D | Reggae grew from it | Ned White |
| 25 Jan 2017 | 53A | Reggae forerunner | Tracy Gray |
| 19 Nov 2016 | 26A | Precursor of rocksteady | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| 8 Sep 2016 | 63D | Some music of the Wailers | Joanne Sullivan |
| 1 Jul 2016 | 58D | Genre for Reel Big Fish | James Mulhern |
| 27 May 2016 | 59D | Mighty Mighty Bosstones genre | Damon Gulczynski |
| 15 May 2016 | 76D | Jamaican genre | Patrick Berry |
| 10 May 2016 | 26D | Cousin of reggae | David Kwong |
| 17 Apr 2016 | 46D | Reggae precursor | Howard Barkin |
| 25 Jan 2016 | 7D | Jamaican music genre | Ian Livengood |
| 13 Jan 2016 | 6A | The Rocksteady 7 genre | Jeremy Newton |
| 8 Dec 2015 | 51A | Precursor to reggae | Neville Fogarty |
| 27 Nov 2015 | 4D | Genre for the band Sublime | Peter Wentz |
| 21 Nov 2015 | 48A | ___ punk (hybrid music genre) | Natan Last |
| 26 Oct 2015 | 66A | Jamaican music genre | Bruce Haight |
| 20 Oct 2015 | 15D | Cousin of reggae | Sam Buchbinder |
| 10 Jul 2015 | 10D | Relative of calypso | Barry C. Silk |
| 24 Feb 2015 | 21D | Some Jamaican music | Elizabeth A. Long |
| 14 Jan 2015 | 5D | Cousin of calypso | Caleb Emmons |
| 25 Jul 2014 | 56D | The English Beat’s genre | Peter A. Collins |
| 4 Mar 2014 | 50D | Jamaican music genre | Bruce Haight and Peter A. Collins |
| 22 Jan 2014 | 41A | Music genre that influenced No Doubt | Jared Banta |
| 9 Nov 2013 | 61D | 2 Tone influence | Michael Ashley |
| 22 Oct 2013 | 23D | Reggae precursor | Kevan Choset |
| 7 Apr 2013 | 33D | Reggae precursor | Matt Ginsberg |
| 22 Jul 2012 | 95D | Jamaican music | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 11 Jun 2012 | 37D | Cousin of calypso | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
| 26 Dec 2011 | 9D | Some Caribbean music | Gary Cee |
| 1 Dec 2011 | 21D | Some Caribbean music | Elizabeth A. Long |
| 11 Nov 2011 | 7A | Music genre of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones | Alex Vratsanos |
| 23 Apr 2011 | 27D | Modern music genre | Mike Nothnagel |
| 7 Feb 2011 | 30D | Jamaican music | Lynn Lempel |
| 7 Oct 2010 | 55A | Reggae relative | Patrick Blindauer |
| 23 Aug 2010 | 20A | Reggae relative | Oliver Hill |
| 3 Jan 2010 | 61D | Reggae relative | Jeremy Newton |
| 7 Nov 2009 | 53D | Music genre of the English Beat and the Specials | Bob Klahn |
| 1 Sep 2009 | 8D | Precursor of reggae | Steven Ginzburg |
| 13 Jan 2009 | 24A | Reggae relative | Daniel Kantor and Jay Kaskel |
| 25 Dec 2008 | 6A | Music pioneered by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires | Eric Tentarelli |
| 28 Oct 2008 | 47D | Jamaican music | Allan E. Parrish |
| 24 Oct 2008 | 39D | Calypso relative | Frederick J. Healy |
| 22 May 2008 | 23A | Reggae relative | Richard Silvestri |
| 11 May 2008 | 80A | Calypso offshoot | Tony Orbach and Patrick Blindauer |
| 10 Apr 2008 | 41D | Forerunner of rocksteady | David J. Kahn |
| 25 Feb 2008 | 27A | Some Caribbean music | Randall J. Hartman |
| 9 Feb 2008 | 37D | Kingston pop | Shannon Burns |
| 27 Jan 2008 | 121A | Music with jazzlike riffs | Mike Nothnagel |
| 10 Jul 2007 | 59D | Calypso cousin | Pete Muller |
| 17 Jun 2007 | 6D | Some Jamaican music | Tony Orbach & Patrick Blindauer |
| 1 Jun 2007 | 5D | Pop of Jamaica | David Quarfoot and Katy Swalwell |
| 30 Apr 2007 | 10D | Jamaican music | Allan E. Parrish |
| 28 Feb 2007 | 24A | Cousin of reggae | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 16 Sep 2006 | 23D | Calypso relative | Michael Shteyman |
| 28 May 2006 | 119D | Reggae relative | Timothy Powell |
| 21 Apr 2006 | 54D | Music for Mods and Skinheads | Manny Nosowsky |
| 6 Nov 2005 | 29D | Calypso kin | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 3 Apr 2005 | 85D | Jamaican music | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| 30 Dec 2004 | 31A | Reggae relative | Kyle Mahowald |
| 28 Nov 2004 | 17D | Cousin of reggae | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 23 Nov 2003 | 122D | Jamaican music | Leonard Williams |
| 16 Nov 2003 | 54A | Jamaica-based music | Cathy Millhauser |
| 24 Nov 2002 | 72A | Caribbean music | Nancy Salomon and Lee Glickstein |
| 10 Jun 2002 | 45A | Music with jazzlike riffs | Sherry O. Blackard |
| 21 Mar 2002 | 44A | Influence on 1980’s pop | Patrick Berry |
| 23 Oct 2001 | 57D | Jamaican music | Leonard Williams |
| 25 Sep 2001 | 28A | Jamaican music | A. J. Santora |
| 17 Jun 2001 | 78A | Jamaican pop | David J. Kahn |
| 11 Apr 2001 | 21A | Music store section | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 10 Jan 2001 | 64D | Reggae relative | Richard Silvestri |
| 21 Dec 2000 | 34D | Relative of reggae | Manny Nosowsky |
| 14 Dec 2000 | 37D | Cousin of reggae | Peter Gordon |
| 3 Dec 2000 | 109D | Relative of calypso | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 3 Oct 2000 | 56D | Relative of reggae | Todd McClary |
| 23 Aug 2000 | 23A | Calypso offshoot | William A. Ballard |
| 22 Jul 2000 | 25D | Jamaican pop | Joan Williamson |
| 27 Nov 1999 | 30A | Calypso offshoot | Patrick D. Berry |
| 19 Sep 1999 | 45A | Calypso-influenced music | Manny Nosowsky |
| 23 Mar 1999 | 36A | Caribbean music | Nathaniel Weiss |
| 8 Nov 1998 | 70D | Cousin of calypso | Fred Piscop |
| 24 Aug 1998 | 42D | Music with a blend of folk and calypso | Alan Jay Weiss |
| 23 Jun 1998 | 20A | Reggae relative | Rich Norris |
| 12 Apr 1998 | 56D | Music with jazzlike riffs | Randolph Ross |
| 3 Jul 1997 | 64A | Popular music variety | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 7 May 1997 | 40A | Reggae relative | Dean Niles |
| 6 Feb 1997 | 58D | Reggae variation | D. J. Kahn |
| 3 Nov 1996 | 8D | Cousin of calypso | M. Nosowsky |
| 6 Aug 1996 | 11A | Jamaica-based music | F. Heaney |
| 1 Mar 1996 | 39A | Jamaican music | Charles E. Gersch |
| 18 Feb 1996 | 37D | Relative of reggae | Norma Steinberg |
| 21 Jul 1995 | 50A | Kingston music | Matt Gaffney |
| 12 Jul 1995 | 33A | Jamaican music | Robert Malinow |
| 10 Jun 1994 | 25D | Jamaican beat | Wayne Robert Williams |
| 26 Apr 1994 | 54A | Kin of calypso music | David Ellis Dickerson |
| 26 Jan 1994 | 61D | Some popular music | Kenneth Haxton |
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