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)
91 entries were found. Click any date for context. Repeated clues show (number of occurrences.)
Date Grid Clue Author
Sunday, May 26, 2013 93D '60s activist org. Joon Pahk and Jeremy Horwitz
Thursday, April 11, 2013 31D Radical '60s org. (4) Jim Hilger
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 71A Radical org. of the '60s Peter A. Collins
Monday, July 16, 2012 24D '60s teach-in organizer: Abbr. Randall J. Hartman
Saturday, July 7, 2012 41D 1960s org. revived in 2006 Tim Croce
Sunday, June 17, 2012 41D Radical '60s org. (4) Kyle T. Dolan
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 56A '60s teach-in grp. Paula Gamache
Sunday, March 11, 2012 87A Radical '60s org. (4) Victor Fleming and John Dunn
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 33A Vietnam-era protest org. Elizabeth C. Gorski
Thursday, December 29, 2011 63A '60s radical grp. (3) David Steinberg
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 23A 1960s teach-in grp. Paula Gamache
Sunday, July 3, 2011 49A 1960s campus grp. Pete Muller
Sunday, August 15, 2010 10D Organizer of many a sit-in: Abbr. Daniel C. Bryant
Monday, March 29, 2010 68A Grp. that opposed the Vietnam War John Dunn
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 62D Grp. behind some '60s strikes Ed Sessa
Saturday, October 24, 2009 27A It spawned the Weather Underground Org. Paula Gamache
Thursday, September 17, 2009 4D 1960s activist org. Arthur Schulman
Thursday, August 13, 2009 62A New Left org. (2) Patrick McIntyre
Monday, August 3, 2009 25A Radical 1960s org. Janet R. Bender
Sunday, July 12, 2009 83D '60s radical grp. (3) Alan Arbesfeld
Friday, May 22, 2009 7D Port Huron Statement grp. (2) Manny Nosowsky
Thursday, December 4, 2008 30A '60s leftist grp. Barry C. Silk
Sunday, November 2, 2008 96D Old campus grp. Elizabeth C. Gorski
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 26A Grp. opposed to the Vietnam War Gary J. Whitehead
Saturday, May 17, 2008 26A Old activist org. revived in 2006 Mike Nothnagel
Friday, May 9, 2008 12A Org. that called '60s strikes Jim Page
Friday, March 21, 2008 10D Old sit-in org. (2) Peter A. Collins
Thursday, July 26, 2007 9D Radical '60s org. (4) Joe Krozel
Sunday, July 1, 2007 10D '60s radical grp. (3) Nancy Salomon and Bill Zais
Thursday, November 9, 2006 56D Tom Hayden org. of the 60's Byron Walden
Monday, October 30, 2006 43A Militant 60's campus org. Nancy Salomon
Monday, July 31, 2006 27D Radical 60's grp. (3) Elizabeth C. Gorski
Sunday, June 18, 2006 113D 60's grp. (3) Ben and Mark Tausig
Saturday, June 10, 2006 24D Old march organizers: Abbr. Harvey Estes
Monday, June 5, 2006 56D 60's protest grp. (3) Fred Piscop
Friday, January 20, 2006 41A Old protest grp. (4) Harvey Estes
Thursday, June 23, 2005 62D 60's campus grp. (4) Courtenay Crocker III
Thursday, December 30, 2004 9D 60's protest org. Kyle Mahowald
Friday, December 3, 2004 63A Old activist org. (2) Michael Shteyman
Sunday, October 31, 2004 114D 60's campus grp. (4) Patrick Merrell
Sunday, October 3, 2004 77D Vietnam War-era org. Randolph Ross
Sunday, August 15, 2004 56D Old protest grp. (4) Brendan Emmett Quigley
Saturday, May 8, 2004 48A Port Huron Statement org. Bob Peoples
Sunday, April 4, 2004 66A Old protest org. Manny Nosowsky
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 23A 1960's radical grp. (2) Charles Barasch
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 25A Radical 60's org. (3) John Greenman
Friday, September 5, 2003 36D Old leftist grp. Manny Nosowsky
Friday, July 4, 2003 14D Grp. in 60's news Elizabeth C. Gorski
Monday, June 16, 2003 69A Radical 60's campus grp. Norma Johnson
Sunday, April 27, 2003 125A Old activist org. (2) Jon Delfin
Sunday, January 5, 2003 9D 60's antiwar grp. Elizabeth C. Gorski
Friday, December 27, 2002 7D 1960's march organizers: Abbr. Sherry O. Blackard
Wednesday, December 4, 2002 13D 60's college org. Richard Hughes
Friday, October 4, 2002 55D Old protest grp. (4) Martin Ashwood-Smith
Friday, August 9, 2002 6D March grp., once Martin Ashwood-Smith
Wednesday, July 24, 2002 30D New Left org. (2) Eric Berlin
Monday, July 8, 2002 1D 60's protest grp. (3) Sheldon Benardo
Saturday, July 6, 2002 35A Old sit-in stagers: Abbr. Nancy Joline
Friday, May 24, 2002 25A Old march organizer: Abbr. Manny Nosowsky
Wednesday, May 22, 2002 28A 60's campus org. (2) Sherry O. Blackard
Sunday, May 19, 2002 12D Grp. that spawned the Weathermen Cathy Millhauser
Thursday, April 25, 2002 13D Antiwar grp. Lois Sidway
Tuesday, April 2, 2002 61D 1960's radical grp. (2) Janice M. Putney
Monday, March 18, 2002 26A 60's campus grp. (4) John Greenman
Monday, December 31, 2001 22D 60's radical org. Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes
Sunday, December 9, 2001 114D Old protest grp. (4) Cathy Millhauser
Saturday, April 7, 2001 30A 60's grp. (3) Trip Payne
Sunday, October 29, 2000 65D Radical 1960's grp. Karen Hodge
Sunday, October 8, 2000 116A Port Huron Statement grp. (2) Richard Silvestri
Sunday, July 9, 2000 113D Vietnam War opposer: Abbr. Manny Nosowsky
Thursday, June 29, 2000 67A 1960's march organizer: Abbr. Robert H. Wolfe
Sunday, July 11, 1999 38A 60's coll. radicals Nancy Salomon
Friday, April 9, 1999 62A 60's grp. (3) Manny Nosowsky
Tuesday, October 6, 1998 49A 60's radicals: Abbr. Elizabeth C. Gorski
Sunday, August 2, 1998 121D Newsmaking 60's grp. Nancy Nicholson Joline
Sunday, July 19, 1998 19D Old sit-in org. (2) Nancy Salomon
Tuesday, May 12, 1998 49A Org. that called 60's strikes Elizabeth C. Gorski
Tuesday, January 20, 1998 25A Radical 60's org. (3) Randall J. Hartman
Sunday, January 11, 1998 37A 60's org. (2) Nancy Joline and Peg Conner
Tuesday, October 7, 1997 35A Radical college org. Richard Hughes
Wednesday, September 10, 1997 51A Tom Hayden's 60's org. Randall J. Hartman
Sunday, July 13, 1997 13D 60's campus grp. (4) Fred Piscop
Friday, November 1, 1996 52A New Left grp. M. Rosen
Saturday, September 21, 1996 38A Tom Hayden was its first pres. R. H. Burns
Wednesday, June 19, 1996 13D Radical 60's org. (3) F. Piscop
Thursday, April 18, 1996 65A 60's protest grp. (3) A. J. Santora
Saturday, March 2, 1996 33A Mark Rudd's org. N. Joline
Saturday, May 13, 1995 33A 60's campus org. (2) Nancy Joline
Sunday, September 18, 1994 99D Radical 60's grp. (3) Merl Reagle
Saturday, March 26, 1994 51D Radical 60's grp. (3) Randolph Ross
Monday, January 3, 1994 40D 60's org. (2) Sidney L. Robbins