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65 total results for ABAB( score: 25 )

28 results for ABAB from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jun 21, 2016	35A	Basic rhyme scheme (5)	Julie Bérubé	Shortz
Wed Jan 21, 2015	62D	Simple quatrain pattern	Jim Hilger	Shortz
Sat Apr 5, 2014	17A	Scheme for the start of a sonnet	Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern	Shortz
Tue Nov 26, 2013	10A	Basic quatrain scheme	Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel	Shortz
Sun Oct 21, 2012	36D	Basic rhyme scheme (5)	Caleb Rasmussen	Shortz
Wed May 23, 2012	25D	Simple rhyme scheme (3)	Eric Williams	Shortz
Sat Aug 27, 2011	5D	Quatrain scheme (2)	Ashton Anderson	Shortz
Fri Apr 22, 2011	23A	Basic verse option (2)	Ashton Anderson	Shortz
Wed Jan 27, 2010	10A	Common rhyme scheme (5)	Alan Arbesfeld	Shortz
Fri Sep 26, 2008	3D	Like many of Shakespeare's rhymes	Barry C. Silk	Shortz
Fri Mar 7, 2008	20A	Basic verse option (2)	Paula Gamache	Shortz
Tue May 1, 2007	33D	Quatrain rhyme scheme (2)	Courtenay Crocker and Nancy Salomon	Shortz
Tue Jul 18, 2006	5A	Basic rhyme scheme (5)	Kevan Choset	Shortz
Tue Feb 14, 2006	10A	Common rhyme scheme (5)	Kevan Choset	Shortz
Sun Apr 3, 2005	103A	"The Purple Cow" rhyme scheme	Nancy Nicholson Joline	Shortz
Mon Mar 7, 2005	7D	Basic rhyme scheme (5)	Christina Houlihan Kelly	Shortz
Sun Jun 6, 2004	18D	Common rhyme scheme (5)	Patrick Merrell	Shortz
Tue Jun 1, 2004	58D	Simple rhyme scheme (3)	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Sun Jun 22, 2003	20A	Common rhyme scheme (5)	John Duschatko	Shortz
Sun Jan 19, 2003	3D	Simple rhyme scheme (3)	Eric Berlin	Shortz
Wed Nov 6, 2002	1A	Common rhyme scheme (5)	Alan Arbesfeld	Shortz
Sun Jun 4, 2000	39A	Quatrain scheme (2)	Martin Schneider	Shortz
Fri Mar 10, 2000	51A	Rhymester's scheme	Chuck Deodene	Shortz
Wed Nov 17, 1999	1A	Unimaginative rhyme scheme	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Thu Jan 1, 1998	33A	Basic rhyme scheme (5)	Jim Page	Shortz
Thu Nov 24, 1994	16A	Verse pattern	Fran and Lou Sabin	Shortz
Mon Jul 11, 1994	10A	Quatrain rhyme scheme (2)	Sidney L. Robbins	Shortz
Wed May 4, 1994	30A	Quatrain's pattern	Louis Sabin	Shortz

2 results for ABAB from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Nov 8, 2015	Diagramless	11A	Quatrain scheme	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Jun 20, 2004	Diagramless	12A	Quatrain scheme	Fred Piscop	Shortz

35 results for ABAB from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Aug 20, 1991	1D	Rhyme scheme for a quatrain	Louis Sabin	Maleska
Wed Jul 10, 1991	52D	Rhyme scheme	Frank Miceli	Maleska
Mon Mar 18, 1991	4D	Rhyme scheme	Peter Swift	Maleska
Sun Aug 7, 1988	14D	Rhyme scheme	Maura B. Jacobson	Maleska
Fri Jun 17, 1988	19A	Quatrain scheme	I. Judah Koolyk	Maleska
Sat Nov 28, 1987	1D	Poetic scheme	Patterson Pepple	Maleska
Sat Feb 21, 1987	12D	Quatrain scheme	I. Judah Koolyk	Maleska
Wed Jun 18, 1986	1D	Rhyme scheme	Patterson Pepple	Maleska
Sat Apr 19, 1986	14A	Quatrain scheme	Kenneth Witte	Maleska
Sun Apr 6, 1986	1A	Rhyme scheme	Judith C. Dalton	Maleska
Sun Feb 17, 1985	57D	Rhyme scheme	John Greenman	Maleska
Wed Apr 11, 1984	10A	Common rhyme scheme	Bette Sue Cohen	Maleska
Wed Aug 31, 1983	1A	Rhyme scheme	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Sat May 7, 1983	30A	Quatrain scheme	Nancy McCarthy	Maleska
Thu Aug 12, 1982	55A	Rhyme scheme	I. Judah Koolyk	Maleska
Thu Nov 12, 1981	11D	Rhyme scheme	Robert Katz	Maleska
Wed Jul 29, 1981	10A	Rhyme scheme	Jeanette K. Brill	Maleska
Thu May 1, 1980	1A	Rhyme scheme	I. Judah Koolyk	Maleska
Tue Feb 19, 1980	1A	Rhyme scheme	Pollard	Maleska
Thu Aug 2, 1979	46D	Rhyme scheme	Johnson	Maleska
Tue May 8, 1979	10A	Rhyme scheme	William Jarvis	Maleska
Sat Apr 8, 1978	1A	Rhyme scheme	William Lutwiniak	Maleska
Mon Nov 15, 1976	10A	Rhyme scheme	Margaret Leggett	Weng
Mon Nov 3, 1975	51D	Rhyme scheme	William Lutwiniak	Weng
Fri Mar 3, 1972	5D	Rhyme scheme	Unknown	Weng
Sat Mar 21, 1970	10D	Quatrain's rhyme scheme	Unknown	Weng
Mon Sep 16, 1968	5A	Rhyme scheme.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Jun 26, 1968	52D	Rhyme scheme.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Apr 23, 1968	1A	Quatrain rhyme scheme.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Feb 26, 1968	10A	Rhyme scheme.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Dec 18, 1967	25D	Rhyme scheme.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Oct 10, 1967	1A	Rhyme scheme.	David S. Hogmer	Farrar
Wed Jun 21, 1967	9A	Rhyme scheme of a quatrain.	Cora Goodman	Farrar
Sun Mar 5, 1967	16A	Rhyme scheme.	George Laczko	Farrar
Fri Aug 19, 1960	55D	Rhyme scheme of a quatrain.	Unknown	Farrar

Anagrams:

BABA, ABBA, AABB

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