The Big Apple

The answer

NYC

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NYC answer page.

Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• GOTHAM (13 uses in xd)
• NEWYORK (3 uses in xd)
• IMAC (2 uses in xd)
• NEWYORKNEWYORK (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NYC

Every other clue in this collection answered by NYC, most used first.

• The Big Apple, for short - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• The Big Apple, briefly - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Big Apple letters - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Big Apple inits. - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• MoMA locale - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Former U.S. capital - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• MOMA home - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• MoMA location - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• MoMA setting - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• MoMA's home - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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