Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sun Mar 16, 2025 | 35D | A persnickety person might pick it | Paul Coulter | Shortz |
Mon Dec 30, 2024 | 8D | Tiny complaint (2) | Hannah Binney | Shortz |
Thu Nov 7, 2024 | 30A | Petty complaint | Joe Deeney | Fagliano |
Mon Sep 23, 2024 | 30D | Criticism to "pick" | Freddie Cheng | Fagliano |
Wed Sep 18, 2024 | 74A | Louse egg | Casey Callaghan and Will Nediger | Fagliano |
Mon Aug 5, 2024 | 59D | Minor criticism (3) | Andy Walker | Fagliano |
Sun Jul 21, 2024 | 18D | Very conservative player, in poker lingo | John Ewbank | Fagliano |
Thu Feb 1, 2024 | 64A | Cause of some head-scratching (2) | Simeon Seigel | Shortz |
Wed Nov 22, 2023 | 52A | ___ to pick | Will Pfadenhauer | Shortz |
Sun Nov 5, 2023 | 114D | Small problem | Rich Katz | Shortz |
Sat Nov 4, 2023 | 22A | Appropriate word found scrambled in "pedantic" | David P. Williams | Shortz |
Wed Nov 1, 2023 | 60D | Minor fault | Steve Weyer | Shortz |
Sun Jul 23, 2023 | 106A | Something picked in an argument | Chandi Deitmer | Shortz |
Tue Jul 4, 2023 | 8D | Minor quibble (2) | Barbara Lin | Shortz |
Fri Nov 4, 2022 | 57A | Cause of some head-scratching (2) | Juliet Corless | Shortz |
Sun Oct 2, 2022 | 56A | Baby louse | Kathy Bloomer | Shortz |
Sun Aug 21, 2022 | 14D | Small fault | Brooke Husic and Will Nediger | Shortz |
Sun Apr 17, 2022 | 70D | Critic's pick? (3) | Emet Ozar | Shortz |
Fri Apr 15, 2022 | 42A | Small grouse (4) | Trenton Charlson | Shortz |
Mon Dec 27, 2021 | 26A | Little criticism | Adam Aaronson | Shortz |
Sat Sep 25, 2021 | 52D | Quibble (5) | Adam Simon Levine | Shortz |
Fri Sep 10, 2021 | 58D | Small grouse (4) | Adrian Kabigting | Shortz |
Sun May 2, 2021 | 13D | Little beef (2) | Dan Schoenholz | Shortz |
Sat Apr 17, 2021 | 3D | Annual coll. basketball event | Leslie Rogers | Shortz |
Thu Mar 11, 2021 | 62D | Quibble (5) | Leslie Rogers | Shortz |
Sun Mar 7, 2021 | 119D | Picky person's pick? | Celeste Watts and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Sun Feb 14, 2021 | 99A | Quibble (5) | Lisa Bunker | Shortz |
Sun Nov 22, 2020 | 93A | Little louse (2) | Alex Eaton-Salners | Shortz |
Wed Sep 30, 2020 | 64D | Trivial objection | Erik Agard and Andy Kravis | Shortz |
Thu Aug 20, 2020 | 4D | Tiny beef | Grant Thackray | Shortz |
Tue Jun 9, 2020 | 29A | Tiny peeve | Freddie Cheng | Shortz |
Mon May 25, 2020 | 61D | Small point to pick | Andrea Carla Michaels and Victor Barocas | Shortz |
Tue Apr 21, 2020 | 44A | Minor quibble (2) | Andrew Kingsley | Shortz |
Tue Mar 17, 2020 | 32D | Minor gripe | Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Fri Mar 13, 2020 | 43A | Annual hoops event, for short (2) | Alex Eaton-Salners | Shortz |
Sun Mar 1, 2020 | 55A | Little thing to pick | Sam Trabucco | Shortz |
Thu Jan 2, 2020 | 59A | Little peeve | Ed Sessa | Shortz |
Sun Nov 17, 2019 | 110D | Tiny criticism (3) | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Mon Oct 28, 2019 | 15A | Minor criticism (3) | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Wed Aug 28, 2019 | 44A | Quibble (5) | Daniel Grinberg | Shortz |
Sun Aug 18, 2019 | 31A | Small criticism | David Steinberg | Shortz |
Thu Aug 15, 2019 | 10D | Little carp | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
Thu May 16, 2019 | 52D | Small carp (2) | Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Tue Apr 2, 2019 | 21D | It can be picked | Natasha Lyonne and Deb Amlen | Shortz |
Thu Mar 21, 2019 | 42A | Collegiate basketball competition, for short | Christopher Adams | Shortz |
Tue Feb 26, 2019 | 7D | Critical point? | Alex Vratsanos | Shortz |
Tue Feb 5, 2019 | 35A | Something a pedant picks | Erik Agard | Shortz |
Fri Jun 15, 2018 | 5D | Critic's pick? (3) | Sam Ezersky | Shortz |
Sun Apr 8, 2018 | 14D | Quibble (5) | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Fri Jan 19, 2018 | 32A | Small grouse (4) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Sun Oct 22, 2017 | 6D | Niggling detail | Tracy Gray | Shortz |
Thu Jul 20, 2017 | 37D | Coll. hoops competition (4) | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Sat Oct 29, 2016 | 11D | Small carp (2) | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Sun Jul 10, 2016 | 80D | Hairsplitter's objection | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Sat Jun 4, 2016 | 37A | ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event) | Byron Walden and Brad Wilber | Shortz |
Mon Mar 7, 2016 | 67A | Trivial gripe | Damon Gulczynski | Shortz |
Sun Sep 6, 2015 | 33A | Unimportant flaw | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Mon Aug 24, 2015 | 31A | Little issue to "pick" | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Sun Feb 1, 2015 | 124D | Picayune quibble | David Steinberg | Shortz |
Fri Aug 8, 2014 | 5D | Minute beef | Bruce Haight | Shortz |
Tue May 13, 2014 | 28A | It may be picked by the picky | Tracy Gray | Shortz |
Sun Nov 24, 2013 | 14D | Cavil | Gary Cee | Shortz |
Wed Aug 21, 2013 | 58D | Minor complaint | Jonathan Gersch | Shortz |
Tue Jul 30, 2013 | 62D | Point to pick | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Fri Mar 15, 2013 | 38A | Small grouse (4) | Joe Krozel | Shortz |
Tue Dec 11, 2012 | 56A | Annual hoops event, for short (2) | Gene Newman | Shortz |
Mon Aug 27, 2012 | 60D | Annual coll. basketball competition (2) | Michael Farabaugh | Shortz |
Sat Apr 28, 2012 | 24A | Thing that's picked | Gary J. Whitehead | Shortz |
Mon Mar 19, 2012 | 45A | Pedantic quibble | Jeremy Horwitz | Shortz |
Sun Jan 22, 2012 | 11D | A picky person may pick one | Adam Fromm | Shortz |
Mon Nov 21, 2011 | 5D | Annual coll. hoops contest | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Mon Oct 3, 2011 | 3D | Trivial complaint | Stanley Newman | Shortz |
Sun Aug 21, 2011 | 120D | Annual b-ball event | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Sat Aug 13, 2011 | 43D | Baby beef? | Tim Croce | Shortz |
Thu Apr 7, 2011 | 12D | Minor criticism (3) | Henry Hook | Shortz |
Sun Feb 13, 2011 | 54D | Tiny complaint (2) | Ian Livengood | Shortz |
Tue Jun 1, 2010 | 16A | Thing to pick | Sarah Keller | Shortz |
Fri May 28, 2010 | 46A | Little beef (2) | Joe Krozel | Shortz |
Fri Feb 6, 2009 | 7D | Small beef | Frederick J. Healy | Shortz |
Mon Oct 13, 2008 | 36A | Annual coll. basketball competition (2) | Anthony J. Salvia | Shortz |
Wed Aug 13, 2008 | 35A | Annual coll. basketball contest | Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Thu Dec 20, 2007 | 33A | Niggling criticism | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Sun Nov 18, 2007 | 81A | Insect egg (2) | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed Oct 3, 2007 | 42D | Have a ___ to pick | Robert Dillman | Shortz |
Sun Sep 23, 2007 | 74D | Little complaint | David Levinson Wilk | Shortz |
Mon Sep 10, 2007 | 50A | Louse-to-be (4) | Edward M Sessa | Shortz |
Sun Sep 2, 2007 | 43D | Petty peeve | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Fri Jul 27, 2007 | 33D | Thing to be picked | John R. Conrad | Shortz |
Sun Jul 8, 2007 | 58A | Coll. hoops competition (4) | Elayne Cantor and Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Mon Jun 11, 2007 | 40A | Tiny criticism to "pick" | Harriet Clifton | Shortz |
Fri Mar 9, 2007 | 55D | Picked peeve | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Mon Jan 22, 2007 | 35D | Tiny criticism (3) | C. W. Stewart | Shortz |
Thu Jun 29, 2006 | 51A | Something to be picked | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Fri Jun 9, 2006 | 52D | Insect egg (2) | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sun Jun 4, 2006 | 43D | Little louse (2) | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
Sun Apr 9, 2006 | 138D | Minor carp | Paula Gamache | Shortz |
Tue Aug 2, 2005 | 21D | Annual b-ball shootout | Nancy Kavanaugh | Shortz |
Thu Mar 31, 2005 | 47A | Minor objection | David Liben-Nowell | Shortz |
Mon Sep 13, 2004 | 60D | Annual hoops contest, for short | Jay Giess | Shortz |
Mon Jun 7, 2004 | 22D | Tiny criticism (3) | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Fri Apr 30, 2004 | 1D | Small criticism, slangily | Kevin Hagen | Shortz |
Tue Jan 6, 2004 | 22A | Louse-to-be (4) | Kent Lorentzen | Shortz |
Sun Jan 4, 2004 | 101A | Something that's picked | Patrick Merrell | Shortz |
Fri Dec 5, 2003 | 25D | Young parasite | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
Wed Jun 11, 2003 | 50A | Point to argue | Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Thu May 22, 2003 | 23A | Coll. hoops competition (4) | Dan Reichert | Shortz |
Sun May 4, 2003 | 28D | It may be picked (3) | Tyler Hinman | Shortz |
Sun Feb 16, 2003 | 119D | It may be picked (3) | Charles M. Deber | Shortz |
Sun Feb 2, 2003 | 113D | Lousy egg? | Mark Danna | Shortz |
Wed Sep 11, 2002 | 56A | Tiny point to argue | A. J. Santora | Shortz |
Mon Sep 9, 2002 | 42A | Louse-to-be (4) | William I. Johnston | Shortz |
Fri May 3, 2002 | 34D | Annual sports event: Abbr. | William I. Johnston | Shortz |
Sun Jan 20, 2002 | 104A | Coll. hoops competition (4) | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sun Nov 18, 2001 | 32A | Annual B-ball championship | Jim Page | Shortz |
Fri Sep 7, 2001 | 21A | Trivial pursuit | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Fri Jul 27, 2001 | 50A | Hoops competition, briefly | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Wed Feb 7, 2001 | 23A | Something to pick (2) | Kent Lorentzen | Shortz |
Sun Jan 14, 2001 | 5D | N.Y.C. hoops contest | Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Sat Dec 2, 2000 | 61D | It may be picked (3) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue May 23, 2000 | 66D | Critic's pick? (3) | Monica Krausse | Shortz |
Sat Nov 7, 1998 | 32A | Oldest U.S. hoops contest | Raymond Hamel | Shortz |
Sat May 30, 1998 | 32D | Postseason contest, for short | Chuck Deodene | Shortz |
Mon Oct 6, 1997 | 57D | Small point to criticize | Barbara Campitelli | Shortz |
Sun Sep 7, 1997 | 113D | Tiny carp? | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Sun Aug 31, 1997 | 73A | Annual hoops event, familiarly | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Sat May 3, 1997 | 27A | Something to pick (2) | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Mon Apr 28, 1997 | 67D | Annual basketball event: Abbr. | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Sat Oct 5, 1996 | 47A | Louse-to-be (4) | T. Payne | Shortz |
Thu Sep 12, 1996 | 24A | Baby buggy? | K. Hodge | Shortz |
Thu Aug 1, 1996 | 64A | Parasite's egg | B. Lubbers | Shortz |
Fri Feb 23, 1996 | 35A | Annual sports event at 47-Across | A. J. Santora | Shortz |
Tue Nov 14, 1995 | 24A | Annual hoops contest: Abbr. | Gregory E. Paul | Shortz |
Mon Jun 26, 1995 | 32A | It's a little louse | Sidney L. Robbins | Shortz |
Sun May 22, 1994 | 124D | Mar. tourney | Randolph Ross | Shortz |