WASP is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for WASP in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "WASP" answer was first appeared in "5 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Mandrake the Magician’s nemesis". It was authored by Manny Nosowsky. Recently, the "WASP" answer has been used for "2 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world)Â is one". It was authored by Royce Ferguson. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Stinger (6)". "WASP" appeared 58 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "WASP" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Dec 2023 | 3D | The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world)Â is one | Royce Ferguson |
| 6 Nov 2023 | 6A | Insect with a sting | Desirée Penner and Jeff Sinnock |
| 26 Apr 2023 | 26A | Stingy sort? | Aaron M. Rosenberg |
| 25 Mar 2023 | 47D | The deceptively named tarantula hawk, for one | Robyn Weintraub |
| 4 Sep 2022 | 54A | Yellow jacket, for one | Tracy Gray |
| 25 Nov 2021 | 1A | Builder of a papery nest | Chase Dittrich |
| 10 Mar 2021 | 34A | Center of a sting operation? | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| 8 Feb 2021 | 44A | “Ant-Man and the ___” (2018 film) | Portia Lundie |
| 26 Oct 2020 | 1D | The “murder hornet” is one | Eric Bornstein |
| 14 Sep 2020 | 1A | Insect that builds a paper nest | John Guzzetta |
| 27 Aug 2020 | 36D | Participant in a sting? | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| 3 Jul 2020 | 32D | Marvel superhero with the power to shrink, with “the” | Hal Moore |
| 4 May 2020 | 29A | Flying insect with a narrow waist | Emily Carroll |
| 4 Feb 2019 | 10A | Stinging insect | Ali Gascoigne |
| 23 Sep 2018 | 10A | Stinger | Andrew Zhou |
| 29 May 2018 | 32D | Stinger with a slender “waist” | John Lieb |
| 26 Jun 2017 | 59D | Big stinger | Brian Greer |
| 11 Apr 2017 | 1D | Insect with a hanging nest | Zachary Spitz and Diane Roseman |
| 26 Mar 2017 | 1A | Martin Van Buren was the first president who wasn’t one | Tracy Gray and Jeff Chen |
| 27 Nov 2016 | 82A | Social worker? | Matt Ginsberg |
| 23 Oct 2016 | 105D | Female W.W. II enlistee | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| 20 Aug 2016 | 1D | One might be involved in a sting | Mark Diehl |
| 20 Jun 2016 | 39A | Big stinger | Jason Mueller |
| 13 Nov 2014 | 1D | Upper-crust sort, stereotypically | Tracy Gray |
| 1 Jul 2014 | 27D | Insect with a stinger | Gary Cee |
| 8 Apr 2014 | 67A | Dangerous stinger | Ian Livengood |
| 10 May 2013 | 46A | Tarantula hawk, e.g. | Derek Bowman |
| 10 Mar 2013 | 1A | Direct descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, e.g. | Finn Vigeland |
| 1 Jun 2011 | 49A | Target of many a New Yorker cartoon | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 29 Mar 2011 | 10A | Attic nester | Peter A. Collins |
| 15 Dec 2008 | 13D | Stinging flier | Susan Gelfand |
| 13 Oct 2006 | 51D | Mud dauber, e.g. | Eric Berlin |
| 7 Mar 2006 | 53D | Stinger | Richard Jacobs |
| 9 Jan 2005 | 104D | Velvet ant | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 23 Nov 2004 | 1A | Thin-waisted flier | Kurt Mengel |
| 17 Nov 2004 | 1D | Yellow jacket | Richard Silvestri |
| 8 Nov 2004 | 47D | Winged stinger | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| 5 Sep 2004 | 59A | Colony member | Patrick Merrell |
| 2 Jun 2004 | 45A | Nest builder in the eaves | Nancy Salomon |
| 6 Apr 2004 | 1A | Big stinger | Tony Orbach |
| 13 Feb 2003 | 5D | Target of some humor in The New Yorker | Joe DiPietro |
| 19 Jul 2000 | 54D | Ethnic acronym | Philip Lew |
| 20 Nov 1999 | 26D | One of a traditional elite | A. J. Santora |
| 10 Nov 1999 | 10A | Insect in a colony | Joan Yanofsky |
| 5 Sep 1999 | 107D | Stinger | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| 13 Jul 1999 | 1A | Slender-waisted insect | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| 16 Apr 1999 | 14D | Mud dauber, e.g. | John Wolting |
| 14 Apr 1999 | 58D | Stinger | Alan Arbesfeld |
| 7 Apr 1999 | 1A | Slender-bodied insect | Rich Norris |
| 20 Nov 1997 | 68A | Member of a traditional establishment | Raymond Hamel |
| 13 Nov 1996 | 54D | Stinger | M. Nosowsky |
| 9 Apr 1996 | 49D | Kind of waist | M. E. Skolsky |
| 22 Jan 1996 | 56D | Hornet | E. Gorski |
| 21 Nov 1995 | 36A | Big stinger | Thomas W. Schier |
| 2 Aug 1995 | 10A | Stinger | James Neal |
| 13 Sep 1994 | 48D | Big stinger | Gregory E. Paul |
| 7 Jul 1994 | 9A | Marmon ___ (first auto to win the Indy 500) | Ed Early |
| 5 Dec 1993 | 80D | Mandrake the Magician’s nemesis | Manny Nosowsky |
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