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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 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)
Words that start with a consonant then a vowel, followed by that same consonant and vowel, followed by from 4 to 7 other letters (so from length 8 to 11 in total.) Click it and you'll see.	^($c)($v)\1\2\w{4,7}$

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26 Results for ARED

4 Shortz Era entries found. Click any date for context. Repeated clues show (number of Shortz Era occurrences).

Date	Grid	Clue	Author
Sunday, October 16, 2011	94D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" (3)	Joel Fagliano
Saturday, February 19, 2011	19A	"Wielding ___ Sword" (Piers Anthony novel)	Tim Croce
Saturday, September 8, 2007	31D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" (3)	Brendan Emmett Quigley
Sunday, July 12, 1998	24D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" (3)	Henry Hook

22 results for ARED from older pre-Shortz puzzles.

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Friday, April 9, 1993	7D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Saturday, January 23, 1993	26A	"O, my Luve is like ___...": Burns	A. J. Santora	Maleska
Sunday, September 27, 1992	18A	"Pluck ___ rose . . . ": Shak.	Robert H. Wolfe	Maleska
Thursday, March 19, 1992	43A	"My love is like ___ . . . ": Burns	Mark Blakeburn	Maleska
Saturday, December 2, 1989	11D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Patterson Pepple	Maleska
Tuesday, March 21, 1989	12D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Shirley Soloway	Maleska
Tuesday, July 26, 1988	2D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Jean J. Davison	Maleska
Wednesday, October 14, 1987	50D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Friday, September 25, 1987	55D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Tom W. Underhill	Maleska
Wednesday, May 1, 1985	19A	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Saturday, August 4, 1984	49D	"Pluck ___ rose . . . ": Shak.	Jim Page	Maleska
Thursday, September 22, 1983	12D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	John R. Prosser	Maleska
Tuesday, September 21, 1982	70A	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Cometa	Maleska
Tuesday, January 26, 1982	44D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	C. J. Angio	Maleska
Thursday, October 11, 1979	49A	"O, my Luve is like ___ . . . ": Burns	Ruth N. Schultz	Maleska
Sunday, July 9, 1978	62D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	Herb L. Risteen	Maleska
Saturday, December 31, 1977	32D	Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest"	C. J. Angio	Maleska
Sunday, May 29, 1977	102A	Not worth ___ cent	Joseph J. La Fauci	Maleska
Thursday, January 6, 1977	53D	"My luve is like ___ . . . "	Harriet Gilson Rosenberg	Weng
Sunday, September 5, 1971	10D	"Pluck ___ rose"	Gladys V. Miller	Weng
Sunday, August 8, 1965	55A	Have___ face.	W. E. Jones	Farrar
Sunday, November 12, 1944	128D	Interpreted: Archaic.	Clara Rushe	Farrar

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