Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
Mon May 15, 2023 | 15A | Most abundant noble gas in the earth's atmosphere | Tomas Spiers |
Thu Mar 16, 2023 | 9D | Neighbor of chlorine on the periodic table | Rebecca Goldstein |
Tue Nov 8, 2022 | 63A | First noble gas, alphabetically | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano |
Mon Jun 6, 2022 | 57A | Element suggested phonetically by NOPQ STUV ... | Michael Schlossberg |
Tue Nov 2, 2021 | 15A | Element below neon on the periodic table | Vaibhav Srikaran and Matthew Stock |
Wed Oct 6, 2021 | 36D | Its atomic number is 18 | Jules Markey |
Tue May 25, 2021 | 3D | First noble gas to be discovered | Kristian House and Mike Dockins |
Tue Jan 21, 2020 | 56A | Fluorescent bulb filler | Carl Larson |
Wed Oct 9, 2019 | 9D | Neighbor of krypton on the periodic table | Alan Arbesfeld |
Fri Aug 9, 2019 | 44D | Most common noble gas | John Guzzetta |
Sun Jul 8, 2018 | 29A | Third-most abundant gas in the atmosphere | Bruce Haight |
Tue Oct 10, 2017 | 18A | <--, on the periodic table | Mark MacLachlan |
Fri May 29, 2015 | 38A | Roughly 1% of the earth's atmosphere | Patrick Berry |
Wed Aug 28, 2013 | 63A | It lights up when it's excited | Erik Agard |
Sun Jun 23, 2013 | 72A | Gas in a vacuum tube | Patrick Berry |
Thu Aug 23, 2012 | 32D | .93% of the earth's atmosphere | Mark Feldman |
Tue Mar 1, 2011 | 11D | Most common inert gas in the atmosphere | C. W. Stewart |
Sat Jun 26, 2010 | 29D | Composition of some plasmas | Robert H. Wolfe |
Thu Jan 3, 2008 | 30D | Element whose name roughly means "lazy" | Henry Hook |
Sun Oct 7, 2007 | 40A | Vacuum tube filler (4) | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
Sun Jun 11, 2006 | 24D | Element whose name comes from Greek for "inactive" | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
Wed Dec 14, 2005 | 6D | It's inert | James R. Leeds |
Mon Feb 21, 2005 | 24D | Laser gas | Sherry O. Blackard |
Thu Jul 8, 2004 | 27D | Vacuum tube filler (4) | Scot Ober |
Thu May 20, 2004 | 20A | About 1% of the atmosphere (4) | Greg Staples |
Sun Jan 11, 2004 | 64D | About 1% of the Earth's atmosphere | Alan Arbesfeld |
Mon Oct 6, 2003 | 24D | Inert gas (2) | Barry Silk |
Fri Jun 20, 2003 | 21A | About 1% of the atmosphere (4) | Bob Peoples |
Sun Oct 20, 2002 | 69D | Fluorescent lamp filler (2) | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
Mon Oct 8, 2001 | 16A | Light bulb gas | Monica Krausse |
Thu Oct 19, 2000 | 46D | Part of the atmosphere | Patrick Jordan |
Sun Aug 22, 1999 | 42A | About 1% of the atmosphere (4) | Raymond Hamel |
Fri Jan 8, 1999 | 11D | Number 18 | Martin Ashwood-Smith and Brendan Quigley |
Mon Dec 29, 1997 | 27A | Radio tube gas | Gregory E. Paul |
Sun Nov 16, 1997 | 106A | Vacuum tube filler (4) | Frank Longo |
Fri Jun 6, 1997 | 24D | Scientific discovery of 1894 | Gerald R. Ferguson |
Sun Sep 17, 1995 | 19A | Most common inert gas | Stanley Newman |
Tue Aug 1, 1995 | 15A | Inert gas (2) | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
Tue Jan 3, 1995 | 1A | Vacuum tube filler (4) | Rich Norris |
Fri Jul 1, 1994 | 2D | About 1% of the atmosphere (4) | Mel Taub |
Fri Nov 26, 1993 | 35A | Fluorescent-lamp filler (2) | Nancy A. Corbett |