TIC

133 recorded uses

Date	Clue
2026-02-27	Jerk
2026-02-24	Involuntary movement
2026-02-04	Behavioral quirk
2025-09-04	That little thing you do?
2025-07-17	Nervous twitch
2025-01-01	___-tac-toe
2024-12-13	Recurring quirk
2024-05-12	Start of a winning row
2024-04-28	Twirling one's hair, e.g.
2024-04-10	Game piece?
2023-10-11	Personal quirk
2023-08-01	Involuntary movement
2023-02-16	Start of X-X-X
2023-01-22	___ Tac (mint)
2023-01-08	Part of X-X-X
2022-09-28	Idiosyncratic behavior
2022-08-18	First X or O
2022-08-12	Idiosyncrasy
2022-05-03	The first "O" of O-O-O
2022-03-13	Idiosyncrasy
2022-02-06	Quirk
2022-01-18	Idiosyncrasy
2021-12-02	First X or O
2021-11-01	___-tac-toe
2021-08-07	Behavioral quirk
2021-05-03	The first "X" of X-X-X
2021-02-10	Personal quirk
2020-07-02	Wrinkling one's nose, perhaps
2020-06-14	Idiosyncrasy
2020-05-22	Idiosyncrasy
2020-04-16	Little bit of personality
2020-03-25	Nervous habit
2019-07-26	Poker game tell, perhaps
2019-04-16	Idiosyncratic habit
2018-12-19	Little jerk
2018-09-19	Part of XXX
2018-07-10	Periodically tugging on one's ear, say
2018-04-10	Spasm
2018-03-01	One might be nervous
2018-02-07	Nervous twitch
2017-12-30	Little jerk
2017-11-15	First X, say
2017-08-27	Sign of nervousness
2017-07-10	___-tac-toe
2017-06-08	Little jerk
2017-04-28	Part of XXX
2016-06-03	Constantly adjusting one's glasses, e.g.
2016-05-05	Part of XXX
2016-01-24	Tourette's symptom
2015-08-30	Personal quirk
2015-08-26	Part of X-X-X
2015-01-07	Constantly twirling a lock of hair, e.g.
2014-12-07	Idiosyncrasy
2014-09-12	Not too big a jerk
2014-08-15	Peculiarity
2014-04-17	Little jerk
2013-12-27	Small jerk
2013-01-27	One of the X's in XXX
2012-12-20	Starting O, maybe
2012-11-25	One of the X's in X-X-X
2012-08-09	With 24- and 45-Across, game represented by this completed puzzle's grid
2012-08-03	Little jerk
2012-06-22	Foible
2012-01-03	Idiosyncrasy
2011-10-11	First of three X's or O's
2011-06-13	___-tac-toe
2010-11-03	Muscle spasm
2010-09-29	First X or O, say
2010-08-22	Personal quirk
2009-10-14	Nervous mannerism
2009-08-25	Quirky habit
2009-05-12	Behavioral quirk
2008-11-23	Personal quirk
2008-11-02	Peculiarity
2008-07-09	Quirk
2007-10-04	Twitch
2007-06-13	Personal quirk
2006-08-03	Jerk
2005-12-21	Start of a winning combination
2005-08-01	___-tac-toe
2005-07-03	Muscle movement
2005-05-09	___ Tacs (breath mints)
2005-04-06	X-X-X part
2005-01-16	Certain X or O
2004-08-31	Part of three-in-a-row
2004-05-01	One might be verbal
2004-04-12	The first O of O-O-O
2004-03-26	Quirky behavior
2004-03-18	Quirk
2004-03-14	Quirk
2003-10-27	___-tac-toe
2003-10-12	Quirk
2003-07-11	Foible
2002-11-30	Quirk
2002-07-30	Twitch
2002-06-30	An X could represent it
2001-08-19	Sudden contraction
2001-08-13	Muscle spasm
2001-05-31	Start of a simple game
2001-04-18	Twitch
2000-12-01	Jerk
2000-10-09	Idiosyncrasy
2000-09-05	Personal quirk
1999-10-27	Spasm
1999-09-25	Quirk
1999-05-20	The first X?
1999-04-22	Game opener
1998-12-09	Facial movement
1998-12-06	Quirk
1998-07-08	Quirk
1998-02-23	Facial spasm
1998-01-14	Twitch
1997-10-30	Quirk
1997-09-21	Behavioral quirk
1997-09-20	Certain X
1997-08-04	The first X of X-X-X
1996-11-05	First of three-in-a-row
1996-10-24	Opening in "Hollywood Squares"
1996-07-11	Behavioral trait
1996-04-03	Involuntary muscle spasm
1995-12-16	Fixation
1995-07-22	Particularity
1995-05-22	_____-tac-toe
1995-04-26	Muscle spasm
1995-04-20	Start of a winning line
1995-03-10	Jerk
1994-12-25	Jerk
1994-12-21	Spasm
1994-11-25	Oddity
1994-07-08	Mannerism
1994-06-25	Oddity
1994-05-31	Idiosyncrasy
1994-03-06	Nervous twitch