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81 total results for NERDS( score: 50 )
62 results for NERDS from Modern Era puzzles:
Repeated clues show (number of Modern Era occurrences).
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Fri Jul 5, 2024 | 14D | Passionate hobbyists | Trent H. Evans | Fagliano |
Mon Sep 26, 2022 | 64A | Proudly brainy sorts | Margaret Seikel | Shortz |
Tue Jun 14, 2022 | 35D | Bookish sorts (2) | Robert Won | Shortz |
Sun Apr 3, 2022 | 18D | Candy with two flavors in one box | Byron Walden | Shortz |
Mon Mar 21, 2022 | 30D | Dorky sorts | John Ewbank and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Tue Jan 25, 2022 | 50D | Passionate learners, to some | Ray Brunsberg and Ellen Brunsberg | Shortz |
Mon Nov 1, 2021 | 27D | Jocks' counterparts, stereotypically | Fiona Taylor | Shortz |
Tue Jun 22, 2021 | 56D | Aptly named shelfmate of Smarties candy | Matt Frederick | Shortz |
Mon Jun 7, 2021 | 62A | Crunchy, colorful commercial candies | Erika Ettin | Shortz |
Thu Mar 11, 2021 | 55D | Bookworms, maybe | Leslie Rogers | Shortz |
Sat Mar 6, 2021 | 15D | Certain school clique | Sid Sivakumar | Shortz |
Wed Nov 18, 2020 | 62A | Bookish sorts (2) | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Sun Oct 27, 2019 | 8D | Types who think school is too cool | Michael Paleos | Shortz |
Thu May 23, 2019 | 27A | Unlikely homecoming court members | Alex Vratsanos | Shortz |
Fri Jan 18, 2019 | 49A | Binges on Sporcle quizzes, say, with "out" | Andrew J. Ries | Shortz |
Sun Nov 19, 2017 | 10D | Certain high school clique | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Fri Sep 16, 2016 | 46D | Brainy high school clique | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Sun Dec 27, 2015 | 24D | Techies, stereotypically | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Mon Oct 19, 2015 | 52D | Poindexters | Bruce Venzke and Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Tue Aug 26, 2014 | 64A | Eggheaded sorts | Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Fri Aug 1, 2014 | 45A | Willy Wonka Candy Company candy | Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern | Shortz |
Sun Jul 13, 2014 | 73D | Colorful, pebble-like candies | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Fri Mar 29, 2013 | 64A | The out crowd? (3) | Josh Knapp | Shortz |
Sun May 27, 2012 | 59D | Uncool types | Byron Walden | Shortz |
Tue Mar 6, 2012 | 18D | Propeller-heads | Wesley Johnson | Shortz |
Mon Mar 5, 2012 | 51D | "Study, study, study" types | Mike Nothnagel | Shortz |
Sun Jul 3, 2011 | 130A | Whizzes at quizzes? | Pete Muller | Shortz |
Thu Apr 28, 2011 | 65A | Poindexter types | Gary Cee | Shortz |
Wed Apr 21, 2010 | 54D | Willy Wonka Candy Company brand | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Sun Nov 15, 2009 | 107D | Studious crowd | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Tue Sep 30, 2008 | 51D | Dweebs (3) | Allan E. Parrish | Shortz |
Wed Jun 6, 2007 | 21D | "Revenge of the ___" | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
Tue Feb 6, 2007 | 70A | Uncool sorts | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke | Shortz |
Fri Jan 12, 2007 | 45A | They're not in | Sherry O. Blackard | Shortz |
Tue Sep 19, 2006 | 23D | The out crowd (3) | Allan E. Parrish | Shortz |
Mon Jul 31, 2006 | 62A | Dweebs (3) | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Sun Jan 2, 2005 | 43A | Overly studious types | Patrick Merrell | Shortz |
Tue Feb 10, 2004 | 66A | The out crowd (3) | Seth A. Abel | Shortz |
Sun Mar 30, 2003 | 96D | Unhip types | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Wed Nov 13, 2002 | 66A | Pocket protector brigade | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Wed Oct 9, 2002 | 46A | Bullies' targets | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Thu Jul 11, 2002 | 9D | Ones unlikely to be voted "most popular" | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Thu May 16, 2002 | 62A | Teen outcasts | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Wed May 8, 2002 | 35A | Jocks' antitheses (2) | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
Tue Feb 12, 2002 | 33D | Unpopular ones | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Mon Jul 23, 2001 | 29D | They're hardly hip | Ethan Cooper | Shortz |
Tue Nov 21, 2000 | 1A | Jocks' antitheses (2) | Robert Zimmerman | Shortz |
Wed Sep 22, 1999 | 40A | Out group | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sat Aug 7, 1999 | 3D | They aren't in | Trip Payne | Shortz |
Sun May 9, 1999 | 4D | Dorks | Nancy Nicholson Joline | Shortz |
Sun Jun 7, 1998 | 80A | Teased teen-agers | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Sun May 3, 1998 | 112D | School clique, maybe | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sat Apr 4, 1998 | 61A | The socially lost | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Tue Dec 16, 1997 | 69A | Types wearing pocket protectors | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Mon Dec 8, 1997 | 13D | Hardly hipsters | Mary E. Brindamour | Shortz |
Sun Nov 23, 1997 | 73D | They're not cool | Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague | Shortz |
Wed Oct 8, 1997 | 47D | Social misfits (2) | Gilbert H. Ludwig | Shortz |
Tue May 14, 1996 | 69A | Social misfits (2) | G. E. Paul | Shortz |
Sun Nov 19, 1995 | 19D | Dweebs (3) | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
Tue Jun 27, 1995 | 48D | They're not hip | Diane C. Baldwin | Shortz |
Sun Aug 14, 1994 | 137A | Twerps | Deborah Kathryn Trombley | Shortz |
Fri Jan 7, 1994 | 6D | Squares | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
2 results for NERDS from Variety puzzles:
Date | Type | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sep 2, 2012 | Panda | 45D | Any drs. who are brainiacs | Mel Taub | Shortz |
Apr 5, 1998 | Diagramless | 39A | Hardly hipsters | Frank Longo | Shortz |
17 results for NERDS from pre-Shortz puzzles:
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Mon Oct 14, 1991 | 70A | Modern-day drips | Barbara J. Weakley | Maleska |
Thu Oct 3, 1991 | 56A | Social flops | Louis Sabin | Maleska |
Sat Dec 22, 1990 | 37A | Wimps' cousins | Joel D. Lafargue | Maleska |
Fri Feb 23, 1990 | 52D | Stupes | June A. Boggs | Maleska |
Fri Jan 26, 1990 | 66A | Kin of wimps | Patterson Pepple | Maleska |
Tue Nov 28, 1989 | 21A | Kin of wimps | Sidney L. Robbins | Maleska |
Wed Apr 26, 1989 | 49D | Saps' kin | Betty Jorgensen | Maleska |
Sun Apr 9, 1989 | 16D | Wimps' cousins | Arnold Moss | Maleska |
Tue Jan 31, 1989 | 32A | Simps | Norma Steinberg | Maleska |
Sat Jan 23, 1988 | 1D | Revengers in a film | Robert Katz | Maleska |
Sun Aug 16, 1987 | 110A | Wimps' cousins | Joy L. Wouk | Maleska |
Sun May 17, 1987 | 24A | "Revenge of the ___" | Mary Virginia Orna | Maleska |
Thu Oct 24, 1985 | 62A | Revengers in a recent film | Dorothy Elliott | Maleska |
Fri Oct 18, 1985 | 42A | Wimps | Louis Sabin | Maleska |
Tue Oct 8, 1985 | 27D | "Revenge of the ___" | Shirley Soloway | Maleska |
Thu Jan 10, 1985 | 46A | Jerks | Eugene T. Maleska | Maleska |
Thu Apr 26, 1984 | 13D | Twerps' cousins | Eli Wesoff | Maleska |