Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Mon Nov 18, 2024 | 7D | Soldier of Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" | Rajeswari Rajamani | Fagliano |
Thu Aug 29, 2024 | 32D | Fictional creature born from mud | Simeon Seigel | Fagliano |
Fri Aug 23, 2024 | 45A | Soldier of Sauron (2) | Taylor Johnson and Rafael Musa | Fagliano |
Fri Aug 9, 2024 | 37D | Middle-earth menace (2) | Hemant Mehta | Fagliano |
Tue Jul 23, 2024 | 60D | Fearsome Middle-earth creature | Sarah Sinclair and Amie Walker | Fagliano |
Thu Apr 25, 2024 | 40D | Creature of fantasy | Hanh Huynh | Fagliano |
Mon Jan 15, 2024 | 32D | Warlike creature of Middle-earth | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Tue Jan 9, 2024 | 22A | Part of a Tolkien army | Adam Wagner | Shortz |
Sun Dec 10, 2023 | 109D | Foe in the Elder Scrolls video games | Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Mon Sep 25, 2023 | 5D | "The Lord of the Rings" monster | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Thu Sep 14, 2023 | 60D | Middle-earth menace (2) | Vasu Seralathan | Shortz |
Sun Sep 3, 2023 | 18A | Middle-earth creature (2) | Dylan Schiff | Shortz |
Wed Mar 29, 2023 | 56D | Tolkien horde member | Ben Zoon | Shortz |
Thu Jan 5, 2023 | 32A | Fantasy foe | Emily Carroll | Shortz |
Tue Dec 6, 2022 | 65A | Bellicose humanoid of Middle-earth | Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu | Shortz |
Thu Nov 10, 2022 | 51A | UglĂșk or Gorbag in "The Lord of the Rings" | Dan Caprera | Shortz |
Sun Jul 24, 2022 | 116D | Any of the Uruk-hai in "The Lord of the Rings" | Jessie Trudeau and Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Sun Jan 2, 2022 | 7D | Fantasy creature whose name is an anagram of another fantasy creature | Paolo Pasco | Shortz |
Wed Dec 29, 2021 | 6D | "The Lord of the Rings" brute | Simon Marotte and Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Tue Dec 14, 2021 | 2D | Tolkien monster (5) | Tao Platt | Shortz |
Thu Aug 5, 2021 | 43D | "Lord of the Rings" baddie | Adam Wagner | Shortz |
Thu Mar 18, 2021 | 14A | Soldier of Sauron (2) | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Wed Feb 3, 2021 | 22D | Elf's foe in "The Lord of the Rings" | Yacob Yonas | Shortz |
Fri Jan 15, 2021 | 44A | Fantasy monster | Josh Knapp | Shortz |
Mon Dec 28, 2020 | 49A | "The Lord of the Rings" baddie (4) | Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels | Shortz |
Sat Nov 28, 2020 | 32A | Extra in "The Lord of the Rings" | Nam Jin Yoon | Shortz |
Wed Aug 26, 2020 | 1D | Dungeons & Dragons meanie | Carl Larson | Shortz |
Thu Apr 2, 2020 | 6D | Elf's evil counterpart | Evan Mahnken | Shortz |
Sun Feb 16, 2020 | 81A | Fictional creature made from slime | Sam Ezersky | Shortz |
Tue Jan 28, 2020 | 44A | Dungeons & Dragons monster | Trenton Charlson | Shortz |
Tue Dec 3, 2019 | 12D | "The Lord of the Rings" fiend | Ed Sessa | Shortz |
Tue Oct 29, 2019 | 43A | Servant of Saruman the White in "The Lord of the Rings" | Evan Mahnken | Shortz |
Sat Jun 15, 2019 | 42A | World of Warcraft creature | Ryan McCarty | Shortz |
Tue Jun 11, 2019 | 62D | Tolkien monster (5) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue Apr 23, 2019 | 18D | Member of a World of Warcraft race | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni | Shortz |
Thu Apr 4, 2019 | 2D | Goblinlike creature | Lewis Rothlein | Shortz |
Fri Dec 7, 2018 | 56A | Dungeons & Dragons baddie | Sam Trabucco | Shortz |
Thu Sep 20, 2018 | 8D | Fantasy creature spawned from mud | Sam Ezersky | Shortz |
Tue Aug 28, 2018 | 51D | Tolkien beast (5) | Brian Thomas | Shortz |
Tue Mar 13, 2018 | 10D | Tolkien monster (5) | Carl Worth | Shortz |
Sun Nov 12, 2017 | 118D | Fictional creature made from heat and slime | Ed Sessa | Shortz |
Thu Oct 26, 2017 | 14A | Tolkien creature (4) | Jacob Stulberg | Shortz |
Tue Aug 8, 2017 | 42A | "The Lord of the Rings" baddie (4) | Dan Flanagan | Shortz |
Sun Jan 1, 2017 | 98A | Tolkien meanie (2) | Matthew Sewell | Shortz |
Sat Nov 12, 2016 | 48A | Literary terror | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue Nov 1, 2016 | 28D | Tolkien terror (2) | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin | Shortz |
Thu Sep 8, 2016 | 31A | Elf's foe | Joanne Sullivan | Shortz |
Sun Jun 26, 2016 | 41D | World of Warcraft beast | Priscilla Clark and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Thu Jun 9, 2016 | 20A | Monster of fantasy | Damon Gulczynski | Shortz |
Sun Jun 5, 2016 | 89D | "The Silmarillion" creature (2) | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Mon Dec 14, 2015 | 32A | Low-level Dungeons & Dragons monster | Timothy Polin | Shortz |
Fri Nov 13, 2015 | 33A | Soldier in the Battle of Helm's Deep | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Sun Nov 1, 2015 | 9D | Tolkien beast (5) | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Fri Oct 23, 2015 | 36A | "The Two Towers" creature | Evan Birnholz | Shortz |
Sun May 24, 2015 | 72A | Warrior in the "Discworld" fantasy books | Kevin G. Der | Shortz |
Mon Apr 20, 2015 | 9D | "The Lord of the Rings" baddie (4) | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Mon Mar 30, 2015 | 23D | Middle-earth creature (2) | Bruce Haight | Shortz |
Tue Jan 20, 2015 | 4D | Tolkien creature (4) | Susan Gelfand | Shortz |
Tue Dec 2, 2014 | 37A | Fabled monster in English literature | Timothy Polin | Shortz |
Fri Aug 29, 2014 | 18A | Middle-earth baddie | Daniel Raymon | Shortz |
Wed Jul 23, 2014 | 31D | Humanoid monster of myth | Howard Barkin | Shortz |
Sun Jul 6, 2014 | 91D | "The Hobbit" figure | Daniel C. Bryant | Shortz |
Sun Jan 12, 2014 | 8D | "The Lord of the Rings" villain | Andrew Chaikin | Shortz |
Sun Aug 11, 2013 | 28A | Foe of Frodo | Dan Schoenholz | Shortz |
Thu Mar 28, 2013 | 47A | Tolkien baddie | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Tue Mar 12, 2013 | 9D | Tolkien meanie (2) | Bruce Sutphin and Neville Fogarty | Shortz |
Sun Nov 6, 2011 | 11D | "The Lord of the Rings" menace | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Mon Oct 10, 2011 | 5D | "The Lord of the Rings" creature | Ian C. Livengood | Shortz |
Sun Jun 19, 2011 | 14D | Brute of fantasy | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Mon May 9, 2011 | 3D | Tolkien creature (4) | Nina Rulon-Miller | Shortz |
Mon Mar 21, 2011 | 14A | Tolkien monster (5) | Patrick Blindauer and Steve Salitan | Shortz |
Thu Jan 20, 2011 | 43A | Mythical monster (6) | Michael Shteyman | Shortz |
Tue Jun 1, 2010 | 4D | Tolkien beast (5) | Sarah Keller | Shortz |
Fri Jan 8, 2010 | 8D | Member of Sauron's army | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Tue Oct 6, 2009 | 5D | "The Lord of the Rings" baddie (4) | Matt Ginsberg | Shortz |
Mon Jul 20, 2009 | 25A | "The Lord of the Rings" enemy | Pancho Harrison | Shortz |
Sun Jun 7, 2009 | 8D | Frodo foe | Jeremy Newton | Shortz |
Thu Apr 16, 2009 | 53D | "The Silmarillion" creature (2) | Oliver Hill | Shortz |
Tue Jan 20, 2009 | 31A | Hobbit's enemy | Tim Wescott | Shortz |
Mon Feb 4, 2008 | 62D | Tolkien creature (4) | Dave and Tracy Mackey | Shortz |
Tue Jan 15, 2008 | 36A | Middle-earth meanie | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke | Shortz |
Tue Jan 8, 2008 | 40A | Tolkien humanoid | Malia Jackson and Noah Snyder | Shortz |
Sun Dec 9, 2007 | 110A | Mythical beast (2) | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
Fri Mar 2, 2007 | 4D | Dungeons & Dragons beast | Eric Berlin | Shortz |
Sun Jan 7, 2007 | 61D | Fabulous monster | Ashish Vengsarkar | Shortz |
Tue Mar 14, 2006 | 48A | "The Lord of the Rings" critter | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Thu Nov 17, 2005 | 49A | "The Lord of the Rings" extra | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sun Jun 5, 2005 | 61D | Frodo pursuer | Patrick Merrell | Shortz |
Wed May 11, 2005 | 40A | Tolkien beast (5) | Kumar Balani and Lou Sabin | Shortz |
Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 58A | Tolkien monster (5) | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Fri May 7, 2004 | 11D | Fictional ogre | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sat Mar 27, 2004 | 48D | Tolkien terror (2) | Sherry O. Blackard | Shortz |
Sun Jul 6, 2003 | 88D | Sea monster | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
Sun May 11, 2003 | 107A | Mythical monster (6) | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed Apr 23, 2003 | 23D | "Lord of the Rings" menace | Gilbert H. Ludwig | Shortz |
Sun Dec 22, 2002 | 99A | Tolkien cannibal (2) | Frances Hansen | Shortz |
Sat Oct 14, 2000 | 27A | Legendary beast | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Thu Jul 20, 2000 | 8D | Tolkien beast (5) | Bonnie S. Prystowsky | Shortz |
Wed May 10, 2000 | 34D | Common Dungeons & Dragons foe | Zack Butler | Shortz |
Sat Jan 15, 2000 | 32D | Mythical beast (2) | Matt Gaffney | Shortz |
Thu Oct 14, 1999 | 9D | Mythical monster (6) | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Fri Jan 22, 1999 | 11A | Tolkien cannibal (2) | Ed Early | Shortz |
Sun Mar 22, 1998 | 99D | Mythical monster (6) | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon | Shortz |
Tue Jan 20, 1998 | 54A | Mythical monster (6) | Randall J. Hartman | Shortz |
Thu Aug 21, 1997 | 56A | Miltonian sea creature | Martin Ashwood-Smith | Shortz |
Thu Dec 12, 1996 | 23D | Fabled monster | J. R. Conrad | Shortz |
Sun Jul 7, 1996 | 39A | Mythical monster (6) | R. H. Wolfe | Shortz |
Sat Sep 16, 1995 | 28A | Middle-earth mutant | Bryant White | Shortz |
Fri Oct 28, 1994 | 9D | Azog or Bolg of Middle-earth | Bryant White | Shortz |
Thu Oct 27, 1994 | 1A | Dolphin family member | Fred Piscop | Shortz |
Fri Feb 25, 1994 | 60D | Killer of the deep | Bob Lubbers | Shortz |