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1 result for CYNICAL from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Mar 16, 2001	40D	Like Diogenes	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

7 results for CYNICAL from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Mar 29, 1981	54D	Sneering	Jim Page	Maleska
Fri Apr 6, 1973	13D	Distrustful	Unknown	Weng
Mon Feb 23, 1970	55A	Like Diogenes	Unknown	Weng
Thu Nov 8, 1962	38A	Misanthropic.	Unknown	Farrar
Sat Aug 1, 1959	41A	Knowing "the price of everything and the value of nothing."	Jan Dubin	Farrar
Fri May 16, 1958	14A	Misanthropic.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Sun Jan 23, 1955	102D	Distrustful and gloomy.	Bernice Gordon	Farrar

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