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111 total results for SUMO( score: 50 )
76 results for SUMO from Modern Era puzzles:
Repeated clues show (number of Modern Era occurrences).
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sat Feb 8, 2025 | 13D | Rikishi's sport (2) | Alina Abidi | Shortz |
Wed Sep 25, 2024 | 5D | Yokozuna's sport | Peter Gordon | Fagliano |
Sun Aug 18, 2024 | 23A | Its name comes from Japanese for "to fight" | Rebecca Goldstein and Will Nediger | Fagliano |
Sun Jul 21, 2024 | 37A | Sport with the rank yokozuna ("grand champion") | John Ewbank | Fagliano |
Sun Mar 10, 2024 | 46D | Rikishi compete in it | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock | Shortz |
Thu Aug 10, 2023 | 46A | Sport in a ring (5) | Natan Last and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class | Shortz |
Tue Aug 9, 2022 | 1D | Kind of wrestling (5) | Bruce Haight | Shortz |
Sun Jul 24, 2022 | 107A | Rikishi's sport (2) | Jessie Trudeau and Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Wed Dec 15, 2021 | 51D | ___ wrestling | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Wed Sep 8, 2021 | 6A | Japanese national sport | Lee Taylor | Shortz |
Thu Jan 21, 2021 | 51D | Sport in a ring (5) | Daniel Mauer | Shortz |
Tue Dec 1, 2020 | 29D | Wrestler in a mawashi | Byron Walden | Shortz |
Thu Oct 1, 2020 | 33A | Sport in which rikishi wear mawashi | Adam Fromm | Shortz |
Sun Jul 12, 2020 | 73D | Shoving match, in a way | Samuel A. Donaldson | Shortz |
Tue Nov 19, 2019 | 56A | Sport that takes place in a dohyo | Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Mon Nov 11, 2019 | 28D | Competition between two heavyweights | Evan Kalish | Shortz |
Fri Sep 27, 2019 | 29A | Sport in a ring (5) | Jack Mowat | Shortz |
Fri Nov 16, 2018 | 22A | Sport whose participants are called rikishi | Kyle Dolan | Shortz |
Wed Jun 20, 2018 | 56D | Competition with minimal apparel | Jeffrey Wechsler | Shortz |
Thu Apr 5, 2018 | 41D | Sport in a ring (5) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue Mar 20, 2018 | 54D | Sport conducted in a dohyo | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
Mon Mar 12, 2018 | 26D | Sport originally part of a Shinto ritual | John R. O'Brien | Shortz |
Tue Feb 20, 2018 | 12D | Battle of the bulges? | Joel Fagliano | Shortz |
Wed Nov 8, 2017 | 34D | Heavy competition? | Joel Fagliano and Sam Ezersky | Shortz |
Mon Aug 28, 2017 | 14A | Variety of wrestling | Dan Margolis | Shortz |
Mon Jul 17, 2017 | 19A | Wrestling for 400-pounders | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Fri May 26, 2017 | 36D | Sport for rikishi (2) | Robyn Weintraub | Shortz |
Sun Apr 30, 2017 | 99D | Activity in a dohyo | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Mon Apr 3, 2017 | 58A | Sport for heavyweights (2) | Agnes Davidson and Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Sat Nov 12, 2016 | 52D | Ring sport (4) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue May 3, 2016 | 52D | ___ wrestler | John Westwig | Shortz |
Mon Apr 18, 2016 | 49D | Heavyweight wrestling | Janice Luttrell | Shortz |
Sun Jan 25, 2015 | 113D | Heavyweight bouts? | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Wed Oct 22, 2014 | 56D | Bare-chested sport | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
Fri Apr 4, 2014 | 26A | Shoving matches? | Martin Ashwood-Smith and Joe Krozel | Shortz |
Sat Dec 21, 2013 | 14D | Big sport overseas? | Todd Gross and David Steinberg | Shortz |
Sun Sep 9, 2012 | 78A | Ring toss activity? | Kevin G. Der | Shortz |
Mon Aug 20, 2012 | 55D | Kind of wrestling (5) | Robert Cirillo | Shortz |
Fri Jul 20, 2012 | 2D | Rikishi's specialty | Martin Ashwood-Smith | Shortz |
Fri Nov 19, 2010 | 46A | Heavyweights face off in it | Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Sat Sep 4, 2010 | 34A | Popular spectator sport that's not in the Olympics | Mark Diehl | Shortz |
Fri Jun 4, 2010 | 34A | Mawashi wearer's activity | Martin Ashwood-Smith | Shortz |
Sun Sep 20, 2009 | 72D | Sport of a rikishi | Michael Ashley | Shortz |
Mon Mar 23, 2009 | 19A | Japanese wrestling (8) | Randy Sowell | Shortz |
Sun Dec 7, 2008 | 19A | Contact sport with a purification ritual | Jim Page | Shortz |
Sun Oct 5, 2008 | 12D | Sport for rikishi (2) | Byron Walden | Shortz |
Sat Oct 27, 2007 | 55A | Heavyweights compete in it | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Mon Sep 24, 2007 | 38A | Sport with beefy grapplers | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
Mon Nov 6, 2006 | 49A | Japanese wrestling (8) | Christina Houlihan Kelly | Shortz |
Fri Oct 14, 2005 | 57A | Ring sport (4) | Michael Shteyman | Shortz |
Wed Sep 28, 2005 | 55D | Ring contest | Randall J. Hartman | Shortz |
Mon Jul 4, 2005 | 52A | Japanese wrestling (8) | Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Tue Jul 13, 2004 | 4D | Clash of heavyweights (2) | Kevan Choset | Shortz |
Mon Nov 12, 2001 | 57D | Japanese wrestling (8) | Janice M. Putney | Shortz |
Sun Sep 2, 2001 | 28D | Sport in which athletes crouch | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sun May 20, 2001 | 112D | Ring sport (4) | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Mon Jul 10, 2000 | 30A | Kind of wrestling (5) | Gene Newman | Shortz |
Mon Mar 27, 2000 | 19A | Kind of wrestling (5) | Dave and Diane Epperson | Shortz |
Thu Dec 23, 1999 | 5D | Clash of heavyweights (2) | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Mon Oct 4, 1999 | 1D | Kind of wrestling (5) | Joey Crumley | Shortz |
Mon Jul 12, 1999 | 28D | Wrestling style | Carol R. Blumenstein | Shortz |
Sun Apr 25, 1999 | 55A | Squatter? | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Sun Dec 13, 1998 | 97D | Japanese sport | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
Tue Dec 1, 1998 | 31D | Japanese wrestling (8) | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
Mon Oct 19, 1998 | 20A | Japanese wrestling (8) | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
Sat Jan 24, 1998 | 46A | Shoving match? | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Mon Oct 6, 1997 | 50D | Japanese wrestling (8) | Barbara Campitelli | Shortz |
Sat Aug 2, 1997 | 33D | Ceremonial sport | Ed Early | Shortz |
Sun Jun 1, 1997 | 59D | Ring sport (4) | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Fri Nov 22, 1996 | 16A | Sport for heavyweights (2) | A. K. Justin | Shortz |
Mon Dec 25, 1995 | 19A | Japanese wrestling (8) | Sidney L. Robbins | Shortz |
Fri Sep 29, 1995 | 24D | Sport in a ring (5) | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sun Jun 4, 1995 | 7D | Japanese entertainment | Bryant White | Shortz |
Wed May 3, 1995 | 50D | Kind of wrestler | Chuck Deodene | Shortz |
Tue Sep 20, 1994 | 62D | Oriental combat | Christopher Page | Shortz |
Mon Aug 22, 1994 | 8D | Certain wrestler | Sidney L. Robbins | Shortz |
3 results for SUMO from Variety puzzles:
Date | Type | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sep 22, 2019 | Cryptic | 11D | Total zero in Japanese wrestling (4) | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon | Shortz |
Aug 26, 2018 | Cryptic | 27D | Total ring sport (4) | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon | Shortz |
Nov 2, 2008 | Diagramless | 62A | Sport with ring tossing? | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
32 results for SUMO from pre-Shortz puzzles:
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Wed Apr 28, 1993 | 51D | Japanese wrestling | Norman S. Wizer | Maleska |
Tue Jan 22, 1991 | 21D | Type of wrestling | Arthur W. Palmer | Maleska |
Sat Jan 5, 1991 | 25A | Japanese grappling | Daniel Girardi | Maleska |
Tue Jan 1, 1991 | 16A | Japanese wrestling | Fred Toole | Maleska |
Fri Jan 12, 1990 | 14A | Japanese wrestling | Ernst Theimer | Maleska |
Fri Jul 14, 1989 | 54D | Japanese wrestling | Walter Covell | Maleska |
Tue Apr 25, 1989 | 1A | Japanese wrestling form | Nancy Joline | Maleska |
Fri Feb 17, 1989 | 33D | Japanese wrestling | Arthur S. Verdesca | Maleska |
Fri Jul 10, 1987 | 49A | Wrestling in Tokyo | Bernice Gordon | Maleska |
Mon Dec 22, 1986 | 30D | Japanese wrestling style | James R. Burns | Maleska |
Mon Apr 14, 1986 | 1A | Japanese wrestling | Arthur W. Palmer | Maleska |
Sat Feb 8, 1986 | 49A | Stylized wrestling | Sandra Burlingame | Maleska |
Tue Dec 3, 1985 | 24D | Japanese wrestling style | Jim Page | Maleska |
Sun Sep 29, 1985 | 89A | Japanese wrestling | Bert Rosenfield | Maleska |
Sat Jun 8, 1985 | 41A | Japanese wrestling | Larry Goldhirsch | Maleska |
Tue Oct 18, 1983 | 36A | Japanese wrestling | Harold B. Counts | Maleska |
Wed Jul 20, 1983 | 54D | Japanese form of wrestling | Eugene T. Maleska | Maleska |
Sun Jun 19, 1983 | 97D | Form of wrestling | Arnold Moss | Maleska |
Sun May 16, 1982 | 7A | Japanese wrestling | A. J. Santora | Maleska |
Sat Oct 10, 1981 | 24D | Wrestling, in Tokyo | Tap Osborn | Maleska |
Wed Jun 27, 1979 | 15A | Trans-Pacific wrestling | Henry Hook | Maleska |
Mon Jan 15, 1979 | 52D | Japanese wrestling | Jay Livingston | Maleska |
Thu Jan 11, 1979 | 29D | Wrestling, in Tokyo | Raymond F. Eisner | Maleska |
Thu Oct 20, 1977 | 50D | Japanese wrestling | Henry Hook | Maleska |
Sun Apr 4, 1976 | 123A | Japanese wrestling | J. A. Felker | Weng |
Sat Aug 30, 1975 | 59A | Tokyo wrestling | Tap Osborn | Weng |
Mon Feb 3, 1975 | 45A | Japanese wrestling | Evelyn B. Rosenthal | Weng |
Sun Aug 26, 1973 | 106A | Tokyo sport | Maura B. Jacobson | Weng |
Sun Feb 20, 1972 | 75A | Japanese wrestling | Elizabeth A. Yaro | Weng |
Sat Jun 26, 1971 | 38A | Japanese wrestling | Mel Taub | Weng |
Sun Jun 23, 1968 | 44A | Form of Japanese wrestling. | Bert Beaman | Farrar |
Fri Jul 9, 1965 | 43A | Japanese wrestling. | Unknown | Farrar |