Enter a word to see all the clues used for it, or enter a pattern to see all answer words that match that pattern.
Standard matching: Patterns use ? for unknown single letters. For example, P??CH will find both POOCH and PEACH.
Use * to mean any number of letters.
A*Z finds both ADZ and ALCATRAZ, *CRY gets words that end with CRY, etc.
Up to 1000 results are shown from each word list.
This page finds words from Daily, Sunday and Variety puzzles, and also from a dictionary search. See FAQs for dictionary info.
You can use $v to mean a single vowel or $c to mean a consonant. The v and c must be lower case.
For consistency with other search engines, Y is always considered to be a consonant. Try these sample links:
$c??$c displays 4-letter answers that start and end with a consonant.
$v$v*$v$v returns words of any length that start and end with two vowels.
Some extensions are available using standard matching. For example,
[QJXZ]???[^A-M] finds 5-letter words starting with Q, J, Z, or Z
and ending with a letter not in the first half of the alphabet.
New regex matching (advanced): You can now choose to use full regular expression (regex) syntax in your searches.
You must explicitly click the RegEx button to perform a regular expression search.
Up to 10,000 results from the combined databases (Shortz, Variety, Pre-Shortz, Dictionary) are returned in a single list.
Standard matching patterns will not work in regex mode. The syntax is completely different.
XWord Info cannot help with regex syntax but the web is full of
helpful sites about this .
The Regex Dictionary has a particularly good tutorial .
The one extension I provide is that $c and $v can be used as shorthand for any consonant and any vowel.
Queries can be arbitrarily complex but here are a few simple ones to get you started.
Find words that include the string ABC somewhere inside:
ABC
Words that can be spelled using only the names of musical notes:
^[A-G]+$
Entries that do not include a vowel:
^[^AEIOU]*$
Words ending in c + 2 vowels + a single consonant:
C$v$v$c$
15-letter words containing neither A nor E:
^[^AE]{15}$
Words containing at least one Q and one V in any order:
(V.*Q)|(Q.*V)
Date Grid Clue Author
Sunday, August 5, 2012 131A Pisa's river (3) Patrick Merrell
Sunday, June 3, 2012 54A 1966 Florentine flooder Patrick Berry
Sunday, April 29, 2012 55D The Piazzale Michelangelo affords a view of it Tracy Gray
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 66A River through Florence (6) David Kwong
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 26D River near the Leaning Tower Joe DiPietro
Thursday, February 2, 2012 14A Oscar Wilde poem "By the ___" Stu Ockman
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 54D The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Tim Croce
Thursday, November 10, 2011 67A The Ponte Vecchio spans it Tim Croce
Sunday, October 30, 2011 2D Classical Italian typeface Andrea Carla Michaels & Patrick Blindauer
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5D View from the Leaning Tower Peter A. Collins
Monday, June 20, 2011 7D River through Florence (6) Lynn Lempel
Monday, May 9, 2011 48A Florence's river (22) Nina Rulon-Miller
Thursday, December 30, 2010 36A It flows near the Piazzale Michelangelo Joe Krozel
Saturday, December 25, 2010 34A Sight from the top of the Leaning Tower Stanley Newman
Monday, August 16, 2010 25D Pisa's river (3) Andrea Carla Michaels and Jennifer Nutt
Monday, July 19, 2010 66A Florence's river (22) David Blake
Friday, May 28, 2010 53D It flows through 55-Across Joe Krozel
Thursday, April 15, 2010 14A The Ponte Santa Trinita spans it Brendan Emmett Quigley & Joon Pahk
Monday, March 8, 2010 11D River of Florence (3) Stanley Newman
Monday, February 8, 2010 57D River through Florence (6) Paula Gamache
Saturday, January 23, 2010 61A River with historic flooding in 1966 Karen M. Tracey
Friday, January 22, 2010 28D The Ponte alle Grazie spans it Natan Last
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 57A River of Florence (3) Steve Dobis
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9D River under the Ponte Vecchio (2) David J. Kahn
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 58D River through Pisa (2) Joe Krozel
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 15A The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Nancy Salomon
Monday, June 23, 2008 62A Florence's river (22) Andrea Carla Michaels and Patrick Blindauer
Friday, June 13, 2008 16A Part of the view in "A Room With a View" Patrick Berry
Thursday, May 29, 2008 16A View from the Ponte Vecchio John Farmer
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 14A River of Tuscany (3) Elizabeth C. Gorski
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 39D Florence's river (22) Adam G. Perl
Monday, July 30, 2007 51A Florence's river (22) Elizabeth A. Long
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 22A River to the Ligurian Sea (3) Peter A. Collins
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 64A It flows through Florence David Kwong
Monday, January 1, 2007 55D River through Florence (6) Randy Sowell
Sunday, October 22, 2006 3D Florence is on it (2) Harvey Estes
Thursday, October 12, 2006 54D River of Tuscany (3) Dave Tuller
Monday, August 28, 2006 15A The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Stanley Newman
Sunday, June 25, 2006 20A Ponte Vecchio's river Jim Page
Saturday, April 1, 2006 47A River that rises in Monte Falterona Kevan Choset and David Kwong
Sunday, March 19, 2006 78D River to the Ligurian Sea (3) Michael Shteyman
Monday, January 2, 2006 16A Peter ___, classic cartoonist for The New Yorker Linda Schechet Tucker
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12D Florence's river (22) Nancy Salomon
Monday, November 7, 2005 58D Florence's river (22) Jay Livingston
Sunday, October 30, 2005 2D River of Tuscany (3) Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr.
Sunday, September 11, 2005 82D Ligurian Sea feeder (2) Patrick Berry
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 15A River of Florence (3) Verna Suit
Thursday, February 3, 2005 24D Ligurian Sea feeder (2) Elizabeth C. Gorski
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 14A Florence's river (22) Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke
Thursday, March 18, 2004 6D Florence's river (22) Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon
Sunday, February 22, 2004 111A Pisa's river (3) Nancy Nicholson Joline
Monday, December 29, 2003 7D River through Florence (6) Gregory E. Paul
Thursday, December 18, 2003 47D Classic New Yorker cartoonist (2) John Underwood
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 27A Cartoonist Peter (16) Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes
Monday, December 8, 2003 54D Florence's river (22) Barry Silk
Sunday, April 27, 2003 124A The Ponte Vecchio crosses it (2) Jon Delfin
Monday, October 14, 2002 61D The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Gregory E. Paul
Sunday, October 6, 2002 119A Arezzo's river Myles Callum
Tuesday, July 16, 2002 43D The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Ed Early
Thursday, April 18, 2002 41A Cartoonist Peter (16) Patrick Berry
Monday, April 15, 2002 45A Florence's river (22) James P. Sharp
Thursday, March 14, 2002 9D Cartoonist Peter (16) Alan Arbesfeld
Tuesday, January 8, 2002 64A River spanned by 27-Across Janet R. Bender
Wednesday, August 1, 2001 67A It's under the Ponte Vecchio William I. Johnston
Saturday, July 28, 2001 48A "Man in the Shower" cartoonist Rich Norris
Saturday, May 12, 2001 14D Florence is on it (2) Michael Shteyman
Sunday, February 25, 2001 21A River spanned by the Ponte Vecchio Greg Staples
Monday, February 19, 2001 60A Florence's river (22) Peter Gordon
Tuesday, October 17, 2000 36A Florence's river (22) Peter Gordon
Sunday, October 8, 2000 105A Italy's Val d'___ Richard Silvestri
Sunday, August 27, 2000 102A Physics Nobelist Penzias Dana Motley
Monday, March 27, 2000 17A The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Dave and Diane Epperson
Thursday, December 2, 1999 38D Italy's fertile Val d'___ Mel Taub
Thursday, October 28, 1999 10D European river known for disastrous floods Patrick D. Berry
Wednesday, June 9, 1999 31A River connected by canal to the Tiber Elizabeth C. Gorski
Monday, March 8, 1999 33D Cartoonist Peter (16) Gregory E. Paul
Tuesday, January 12, 1999 67A Cartoonist Peter (16) Nancy Salomon
Thursday, December 3, 1998 15A Florence flooder Cathy Millhauser
Wednesday, November 4, 1998 51A Cartoonist Peter (16) Rich Norris
Thursday, July 30, 1998 37D Flower through Florence Rich Norris
Sunday, May 10, 1998 102A Florentine flower Rich Silvestri
Tuesday, February 24, 1998 57D Cartoonist Peter (16) Bill Ballard
Monday, February 23, 1998 6D Florence's river (22) Mark Danna
Tuesday, December 30, 1997 37D Florentine river Elizabeth C. Gorski
Thursday, December 4, 1997 19A Cartoonist Peter (16) Eileen Lexau
Sunday, November 23, 1997 75D River known for disastrous floods Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague
Monday, August 25, 1997 51D Florence's river (22) Randall J. Hartman
Wednesday, June 18, 1997 12D Cartoonist Peter (16) Stanley B. Whitten
Monday, June 2, 1997 18A The New Yorker cartoonist Peter (7) Gregory E. Paul
Tuesday, February 18, 1997 57A Cartoonist Peter (16) F. Piscop
Tuesday, January 7, 1997 59A Florence's river (22) J. Schmalzbach
Sunday, December 1, 1996 22A Classic New Yorker cartoonist (2) D. J. Kahn
Monday, September 23, 1996 16A Florence's river (22) S. L. Robbins
Friday, June 28, 1996 32A "A Room With a View" view D. J. Kahn
Tuesday, May 21, 1996 61A Cartoonist Peter (16) J. Schmalzbach
Monday, April 15, 1996 68A Florence's river (22) S. L. Robbins
Monday, April 1, 1996 57D Florence's river (22) F. Piscop
Wednesday, February 28, 1996 5D Cartoonist Peter (16) F.A. Longo
Monday, February 5, 1996 56D River under the Ponte Vecchio (2) Robert Katz
Tuesday, November 7, 1995 7D Florence's river (22) Sidney L. Robbins
Sunday, August 20, 1995 79D Big-bang physicist Penzias Cathy Millhauser
Thursday, April 6, 1995 14A River to the Ligurian Sea (3) Lois Sidway
Wednesday, March 22, 1995 16A Florence's river (22) David J. Kahn
Thursday, March 2, 1995 54A River through Pisa (2) Raymond Hamel
Friday, November 18, 1994 36A Ponte Vecchio site Timothy S. Lewis
Sunday, October 23, 1994 127A Cartoonist Peter (16) Cathy Millhauser
Tuesday, October 11, 1994 56A Cartoonist Peter (16) Bernice Gordon
Saturday, July 30, 1994 47A Cartoonist Peter (16) Manny Nosowsky
Monday, July 11, 1994 20A River through Florence (6) Sidney L. Robbins
Sunday, March 27, 1994 74D Peter the cartoonist Jeanette K. Brill
Wednesday, February 23, 1994 32A Cartoonist Peter (16) Joel Davajan
Sunday, January 2, 1994 21A The Ponte Vecchio crosses it (2) Brian G. Tyler
Wednesday, December 15, 1993 19A Florence's river (22) Fred Piscop