A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ERIE

Mon, 2 Dec '24
One of the Great Lakes
Wed, 20 Nov '24
Pennsylvania home of minor-league baseball's SeaWolves
Sun, 17 Nov '24
HOMES component
Thu, 14 Nov '24
Member of a "Great" quintet
Wed, 30 Oct '24
Lake with a spooky-sounding name
Thu, 30 May '24
Locale for a noted canal
Mon, 27 May '24
Cleveland's lake
Fri, 10 May '24
Iroquois foe in the Beaver Wars
Sun, 7 Apr '24
Pennsylvania city that's home to Gannon University
Mon, 25 Mar '24
The "E" of HOMES
Thu, 21 Mar '24
Detroit River's terminus
Tue, 27 Feb '24
Great Lake with a vowel-heavy name
Thu, 15 Feb '24
People also known as the Cat Nation
Sun, 24 Dec '23
Member of a wet quintet
Mon, 4 Dec '23
Lake bordering Ohio and New York
Thu, 16 Nov '23
Lake home to the cryptid "Bessie"
Thu, 9 Nov '23
Cleveland abuts it
Tue, 7 Nov '23
Canal written about by Twain and Melville
Mon, 9 Oct '23
Pennsylvania port
Wed, 31 May '23
Spooky-sounding lake
Mon, 29 May '23
One of the Great Lakes
Mon, 15 May '23
The "E" of HOMES
Sun, 7 May '23
Lake that's home to South Bass Island
Sun, 16 Apr '23
The "E" of HOMES
Tue, 4 Apr '23
Great Lake that sounds like a synonym for "spooky"
Tue, 21 Feb '23
The "E" in the mnemonic HOMES
Mon, 13 Feb '23
See 67-Across
Thu, 9 Feb '23
Water buffalo
Tue, 1 Nov '22
The "E" in HOMES
Wed, 14 Sep '22
Lake at one end of the Niagara River
Wed, 10 Aug '22
New York canal
Thu, 7 Jul '22
Northern terminus of I-79
Mon, 16 May '22
One of the Great Lakes
Fri, 29 Apr '22
Where Oliver Hazard Perry said "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"
Tue, 26 Apr '22
Lake below Huron
Wed, 6 Apr '22
Buffalo's county
Mon, 14 Mar '22
Shallowest of the Great Lakes
Fri, 11 Mar '22
Lake bordering four states
Wed, 9 Mar '22
Great Lakes port
Thu, 24 Feb '22
Northernmost county of Pennsylvania
Fri, 18 Feb '22
Fort ___ (Peace Bridge terminus)
Sun, 21 Nov '21
Historic trade ally of the Monacan people
Tue, 2 Nov '21
Cleveland is on its shore
Sat, 16 Oct '21
People also known as the Cat Nation
Sun, 26 Sep '21
Lakeside city that's at one end of I-79
Mon, 30 Aug '21
Buffalo's lake
Mon, 14 Jun '21
Spooky-sounding lake?
Mon, 31 May '21
___ Canal, connector of the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
Wed, 5 May '21
Historic enemy of the Iroquois
Thu, 1 Apr '21
City roughly halfway between Cleveland and Buffalo
Sun, 28 Feb '21
The lake in "lake effect" snow
Tue, 23 Feb '21
County name in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania
Mon, 22 Feb '21
Great Lake with the smallest volume
Mon, 1 Feb '21
Lake bordering Cleveland
Sun, 27 Dec '20
Lake largely fed by the Detroit River