TIS is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for TIS in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "TIS" answer was first appeared in "26 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Notes". It was authored by Tom Underhill. Recently, the "TIS" answer has been used for "29 Nov 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "“Indeed!,” quaintly". It was authored by Ruth Bloomfield Margolin. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hints: "Quaint contraction (6)", "“___ the season …” (32)", "“___ the season to be jolly” (8)", "Carol contraction (8)", "Poetic contraction (7)", "Frank McCourt memoir (6)", "“Deck the Halls” contraction (6)", "“___ the season…” (32)". "TIS" appeared 201 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "TIS" word.
Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
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29 Nov 2023 | 26D | “Indeed!,” quaintly | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
28 Nov 2023 | 39A | “___ the season …” | Gia Bosko |
20 Aug 2023 | 23A | Taylor Swift’s “___ the Damn Season” | Michael Schlossberg |
22 Jun 2023 | 33D | “___ Love That Makes Us Happy” (hymn) | Michael Baker and Jeff Chen |
11 Jun 2023 | 71A | Poetic contraction | Sam Ezersky |
17 Jan 2023 | 32A | Contraction in “Deck the Halls” | Erika Ettin |
27 Nov 2022 | 62D | “___ but a scratch”: oft-quoted Monty Python line | Adam Wagner |
25 Oct 2022 | 34D | “___ but a scratch!” | Ashleigh Silveira and Nick Shephard |
8 Sep 2022 | 40A | “Ah yes, yes indeed” | Matthew Stock |
4 Sep 2022 | 110A | “Where ignorance is bliss, ___ folly to be wise”: Thomas Gray | Tracy Gray |
10 Jun 2022 | 41A | Quaint confirmation | Blake Slonecker |
23 May 2022 | 13D | “___ the season …” | Simon Marotte |
6 May 2022 | 28A | Scale notes | Aaron Ullman |
20 Apr 2022 | 22A | “___ no sin to cheat the devil”: Daniel Defoe | Joseph Greenbaum |
15 Dec 2021 | 47A | “___ but a scratch!” | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau |
28 Nov 2021 | 24D | “___ but a scratch”: Monty Python | Jeff Kremer |
14 Nov 2021 | 66D | Quaint contraction | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
8 Nov 2021 | 23A | “___ the season to be jolly” | Carl Larson |
30 Sep 2021 | 19A | Contraction that drops an “i” | Rich Proulx |
15 Aug 2021 | 58A | “Deck the Halls” contraction | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
1 Jul 2021 | 58D | First word of the song “Simple Gifts” | Joe Deeney |
22 Jun 2021 | 49A | “___ but a scratch” | Matt Frederick |
9 May 2021 | 57D | Quaint contraction | Brad Wiegmann |
23 Apr 2021 | 40A | “___ destiny unshunnable, like death”: “Othello” | Robyn Weintraub |
20 Apr 2021 | 42A | “___ the Damn Season” (2020 Taylor Swift song) | Adam Wagner |
4 Apr 2021 | 119D | Stanza contraction | Angela Olson Halsted and Doug Peterson |
20 Mar 2021 | 57A | Carol contraction | Emily Carroll |
18 Mar 2021 | 20A | “___ but a scratch” (Monty Python quote) | Tom McCoy |
28 Feb 2021 | 68D | “___ So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” (hymn) | Brad Wiegmann |
5 Dec 2020 | 32D | Quaint agreement | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
23 Oct 2020 | 37A | The season opener? | Robyn Weintraub |
25 Sep 2020 | 44A | “___ but a scratch!” | Rachel Fabi |
22 Sep 2020 | 18D | Quaint contraction | Jeremy Newton |
21 Sep 2020 | 66D | “My country, ___ of thee …” | Daniel Larsen and The Wave Learning Festival Crossword Class |
10 Sep 2020 | 44A | “___ So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” (hymn) | David J. Kahn |
2 Sep 2020 | 65A | “___ the season …” | Margaret Seikel |
18 Jul 2020 | 6D | “___ but a scratch …” | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
10 May 2020 | 38A | Quaint contraction | Adam Fromm |
16 Apr 2020 | 26D | Poetic contraction usually at the start of a line | Alan Arbesfeld |
17 Jan 2020 | 60A | What precedes the season? | Ryan Patrick Smith |
16 Oct 2019 | 33A | “Deck the Halls” contraction | Peter A. Collins |
3 Oct 2019 | 28A | Christmas carol contraction | Ricky Cruz |
22 Sep 2019 | 29D | Bard’s contraction | Tracy Gray |
19 Aug 2019 | 37D | “___ the season to be jolly” | Peter Gordon |
26 Jul 2019 | 41D | Quaint contraction | Trenton Charlson |
7 Jul 2019 | 121A | Yuletide contraction | Jack Reuter |
10 Mar 2019 | 91D | Contraction in a Christmas song | Adam Fromm |
24 Jan 2019 | 20A | Follower of “My country” | Stu Ockman |
21 Jan 2019 | 24D | “___ the season …” | Sean Biggins |
4 Sep 2018 | 62A | “Whether ___ nobler …” | Bruce Haight |
28 May 2018 | 34D | “My country, ___ of thee …” | Alex Eaton-Salners |
21 Dec 2017 | 45A | “Deck the Halls” contraction | Alex Eaton-Salners |
7 Dec 2017 | 27D | Christmas song contraction | Dan Schoenholz |
7 Nov 2017 | 34A | Start of the season? | Greg Poulos |
26 Oct 2017 | 39A | “___ my first night beneath the Sun” (Dickinson poem) | Jacob Stulberg |
2 Oct 2017 | 60A | “My Country, ___ of Thee” | Trenton Charlson |
20 Jul 2017 | 57D | Sequel to “Angela’s Ashes” | Randolph Ross |
10 Jul 2017 | 4D | “___ the season …” | Timothy Polin |
1 Jun 2017 | 28A | “___ folly to be wise” | Derek Bowman and Sarah Keller |
12 Mar 2017 | 109A | Christmas song contraction | Alan Arbesfeld |
19 Jan 2017 | 59D | “___ the Voice of the Lobster” (“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” poem) | Jacob Stulberg |
11 Dec 2016 | 92A | Quaint contraction | Tom McCoy |
12 Sep 2016 | 9D | “My Country, ___ of Thee” | Victor Fleming and Andrea Carla Michaels |
9 Sep 2016 | 32A | Contraction in Hamlet’s soliloquy | Kristian House |
26 Jul 2016 | 24D | “___ a pity” | Bruce Haight |
26 Jun 2016 | 57D | “___ the season …” | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen |
15 Feb 2016 | 51A | “___ well” (George Washington’s last words) | David J. Kahn |
4 Feb 2016 | 63A | What precedes the season? | Jeff Chen |
21 Sep 2015 | 24D | “___ the season …” | Bruce Haight |
8 Aug 2015 | 10D | Sole word in the last chapter of “Angela’s Ashes” | Alan Arbesfeld |
8 Jul 2015 | 51A | Bard’s contraction | Ryan Milligan |
30 Jun 2015 | 31D | “___ the season …” | Susan Gelfand |
27 Dec 2014 | 31A | “Verily” | David Phillips |
25 Jul 2014 | 7D | “___ true” | Peter A. Collins |
22 Jul 2014 | 1D | “My country” follower | Joel Fagliano |
12 Jun 2014 | 34D | “Deck the Halls” contraction | Mark Feldman |
22 Nov 2013 | 24A | Word that begins with an apostrophe | Patrick Berry |
30 Oct 2013 | 57D | “___ So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” | Joel Fagliano |
8 Aug 2013 | 30D | “___ the last rose of summer” (Thomas Moore poem starter) | Daniel A. Finan |
29 Jul 2013 | 46D | “___ better to have loved and lost …” | Andrea Carla Michaels |
17 Jun 2013 | 5D | “___ the season to be jolly” | Johanna Fenimore and Andrea Carla Michaels |
14 Apr 2013 | 28A | Contracted agreement | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
22 Dec 2012 | 54D | “___ true” | Tim Croce |
19 Dec 2012 | 27D | Frank McCourt memoir | Mike Buckley |
25 Sep 2012 | 29A | 1999 Frank McCourt memoir | Ian Livengood |
23 Apr 2012 | 26A | “My country, ___ of thee” | Michael David |
3 Feb 2012 | 58D | “Indeedy” | Joel Kaplow |
8 Dec 2011 | 23D | “My country, ___ …” | Daniel A. Finan |
21 Oct 2011 | 3D | Poetic contraction | Patrick Berry |
18 Oct 2011 | 20A | “___ the season …” | Patrick Berry |
1 Oct 2011 | 39A | My country’s follower? | David Quarfoot |
27 Sep 2011 | 41A | “___ the season” | Peter A. Collins |
9 Sep 2011 | 42A | “That so?” reply | Joe Krozel |
21 Jun 2011 | 34A | “Angela’s Ashes” follow-up | Kelsey Boes |
31 May 2011 | 24A | “‘Tain’t” retort | Nina Rulon-Miller |
30 May 2011 | 30A | “___ the season to be jolly” | Michael Barnhart |
3 Apr 2011 | 44D | “___ the season …” | Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg |
3 Jul 2010 | 49D | “___ so appalling – it exhilarates”: Dickinson | Joe Krozel |
14 Apr 2010 | 29A | “___ the last rose of summer” (start of a Thomas Moore poem) | Jonah Kagan |
8 Mar 2010 | 64D | “___ the season to be jolly” | Stanley Newman |
13 Dec 2009 | 72A | Carol contraction | Mike Shenk |
21 Oct 2009 | 37A | Frank McCourt memoir | Peter A. Collins |
4 Oct 2009 | 88D | “America” contraction | Todd McClary |
28 Sep 2009 | 35D | “___ better to have loved and lost …” | Lynn Lempel |
26 Aug 2009 | 5D | Rejoinder to “’tain’t!” | Gary Cee |
28 Jun 2009 | 125D | Poetic contraction | Barry C. Silk |
10 May 2009 | 78D | “___ the season!” | Patrick Berry |
31 Aug 2008 | 9D | Word repeated in Emily Dickinson’s “___ so much joy! ___ so much joy!” | Alan Arbesfeld |
23 Aug 2008 | 45A | 1999 best-selling memoir | Natan Last |
26 May 2008 | 51A | “___ the season …” | Mark Sherwood |
5 Mar 2008 | 40A | “___ the season …” | Steven Ginzburg |
3 Feb 2008 | 34A | Third word of “America” | Matt Ginsberg |
2 Feb 2008 | 37A | “___ now the very witching time of night”: Hamlet | Natan Last |
20 Jun 2007 | 40A | Frank McCourt memoir | Bonnie L. Gentry and Victor Fleming |
16 May 2007 | 46D | “___ a pity” | Patrick Blindauer |
15 May 2007 | 26D | “My country, ___ of thee” | John Halverson |
24 Dec 2006 | 81D | “___ the season to be jolly” | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
30 Nov 2006 | 62D | Poetic contraction | Patrick Merrell |
22 Oct 2006 | 47A | “Here ___” | Harvey Estes |
26 Aug 2006 | 35A | “___ Autumn” (hit 1941 song) | Henry Hook |
26 May 2006 | 23A | “___ the season …” | Mike Torch |
24 Apr 2006 | 45A | “___ better to have loved …” | Lynn Lempel |
2 Oct 2005 | 8D | “___ the season …” | Randolph Ross |
22 Sep 2005 | 20A | It’s in poetry | Patrick Merrell |
15 Sep 2005 | 6D | Bard’s contraction | Frank Longo |
4 Sep 2005 | 43D | Frank McCourt memoir | Richard Silvestri |
12 Jun 2005 | 7D | Poetic contraction | Joe Bower |
30 May 2005 | 64A | “___ the season …” | Lynn Lempel |
13 May 2005 | 30A | Carol contraction | Robert H. Wolfe |
13 Apr 2005 | 55A | Frank McCourt memoir | Allan E. Parrish |
29 Mar 2005 | 54D | Rejoinder to “’tain’t!” | Victor Fleming and Nelson Hardy |
6 Jan 2005 | 23A | Carol contraction | Robert H. Wolfe |
12 Dec 2004 | 68A | Carol contraction | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
29 Aug 2004 | 5D | Sequel to “Angela’s Ashes” | Manny Nosowsky |
14 Apr 2004 | 61D | “___ the Last Rose of Summer” (old song standard) | Randolph Ross |
4 Mar 2004 | 18D | “___ Autumn” (Woody Herman hit) | Patrick Merrell |
4 Feb 2004 | 39A | “My country” follower | Roy Leban |
3 Feb 2004 | 20A | “___ the season …” | Joe Bower and Nancy Salomon |
10 Nov 2003 | 68A | “___ the season …” | Gail A. MacLean |
18 Oct 2003 | 32D | Preceder of the season | Myles Callum |
9 Jun 2003 | 64D | “___ the season …” | Randall J. Hartman |
25 Apr 2003 | 37A | Sequel to “Angela’s Ashes” | Randolph Ross |
28 Mar 2003 | 54D | “___ So Sweet” (gospel song) | Cathy Millhauser |
18 Mar 2003 | 25A | “___ the season …” | William Schaub |
19 Jan 2003 | 71A | Carol contraction | Eric Berlin |
22 Aug 2002 | 1A | Follow-up to the best seller “Angela’s Ashes” | Cathy Millhauser |
26 Jun 2002 | 64D | Carol contraction | Nancy Salomon |
6 Jun 2002 | 24D | Frank McCourt title | Patrick Merrell |
1 Apr 2002 | 37A | Third word in “America” | Roger Barkan |
1 Apr 2002 | 41D | Notes after las | Roger Barkan |
19 Jan 2002 | 1D | “My country” follower | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
1 Dec 2001 | 30A | “___ Me, O Lord” (spiritual) | Peter Gordon |
17 Nov 2001 | 34D | Poetic contraction | Bob Peoples |
4 Oct 2001 | 11A | Frank McCourt memoir | David J. Kahn |
23 May 2001 | 26D | “Angela’s Ashes” follow-up | Alan Arbesfeld |
17 Apr 2001 | 59A | “___ the season …” | Greg Staples |
7 Nov 2000 | 20A | “___ the season …” | David Levinson Wilk |
16 Jul 2000 | 90A | Last word of “Angela’s Ashes” | David J. Kahn |
22 May 2000 | 51A | “___ the season…” | Nancy Salomon and Louis Hildebrand |
20 May 2000 | 58D | “Deck the Halls” word | Rich Norris |
19 May 2000 | 45A | “___ in the breath of heaven…”: Keats | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
10 Mar 2000 | 58D | 1999 Frank McCourt memoir | Chuck Deodene |
19 Feb 2000 | 63D | Poetic contraction | Rich Norris |
23 Jan 2000 | 47A | It is contracted | Joe DiPietro |
21 Sep 1999 | 4D | “___ the season to be jolly” | Stephanie Spadaccini |
17 Jul 1999 | 5D | It comes before the season | Rand H. Burns |
15 Jan 1999 | 49A | Woody Herman’s “___ Autumn” | John Wolting |
10 Jan 1999 | 30A | Scale notes | David J. Kahn |
3 Jan 1999 | 57D | Carol contraction | Randolph Ross |
26 Oct 1998 | 36D | “___ the season…” | Robert Dillman |
15 Aug 1998 | 61D | “___ a pity” | Rich Norris |
29 Apr 1998 | 4D | Woody Herman’s “___ Autumn” | Gayle Dean |
28 Apr 1998 | 44A | Opposite of ’tain’t | Manny Nosowsky |
8 Jan 1998 | 26A | “Whether ___ nobler…” | Nancy S. Ross |
16 Oct 1997 | 64D | Old-fashioned contraction | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
20 Jul 1997 | 72A | “___ in my memory lock’d”: Ophelia | Rich Norris |
7 Jun 1997 | 1D | Seasonal contraction | Martin Schneider |
26 May 1997 | 36D | “___ the season…” | Eileen Lexau |
23 May 1997 | 52A | Old-fashioned contraction | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
13 Jan 1997 | 37A | “___ the season to be jolly” | G. E. Paul |
20 Dec 1996 | 62D | Old-fashioned contraction | M. Ashwood-Smith |
8 Dec 1996 | 83A | Scale notes | A. J. Santora |
30 Oct 1996 | 21A | “___ better to have loved…” | A. D. Cover |
24 Oct 1996 | 60A | Third word of “America” | M. S. Maurer |
23 Oct 1996 | 47D | “___ the season…” | R. Norris |
27 Aug 1996 | 47A | “___ the season…” | D. E. Donaldson |
17 May 1996 | 61D | Las’ followers | J. DiPietro |
16 May 1996 | 21D | “Deck the Halls” contraction | F. Longo |
18 Jan 1996 | 44A | “___the season…” | C. Deodene |
29 Dec 1995 | 58D | Third word of “America” | Jeff Herrington |
18 Nov 1995 | 60D | “Deck the Halls” contraction | Glenton Petgrave |
7 Nov 1995 | 23A | Opposite of ’tain’t | Sidney L. Robbins |
1 Oct 1995 | 81A | Bard’s contraction | Frank A. Longo |
17 Aug 1995 | 33D | “___ the season…” | Rand H. Burns |
12 Jul 1995 | 53D | “___ the season…” | Robert Malinow |
26 Jun 1995 | 22A | “My country, ___ of thee…” | Sidney L. Robbins |
22 Sep 1994 | 8D | Woody Herman’s “___ Autumn” | George Quincy |
26 Aug 1994 | 59A | Moore’s “___ the Last Rose of Summer” | Timothy S. Lewis |
26 Jun 1994 | 125D | Third word of “America” | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
14 Feb 1994 | 28A | “___ the season…” | Nancy Joline |
26 Dec 1993 | 8D | Notes | Tom Underhill |
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