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8 results for DRATS from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Oct 3, 2023	29A	Frustrated cries	Troy Laedtke	Shortz
Tue Feb 3, 2015	31D	Cries of annoyance	Joe Krozel	Shortz
Sun Jul 8, 2012	73D	Mild oaths (3)	Joel Fagliano	Shortz
Sat Dec 1, 2007	13D	Comments of annoyance	Robert H. Wolfe	Shortz
Mon Aug 20, 2007	47A	Exclamations of annoyance	Lynn Lempel	Shortz
Tue May 17, 2005	7D	Mild oaths (3)	Sherry O. Blackard	Shortz
Sun Dec 26, 2004	42D	Mild oaths (3)	Hal Turner	Shortz
Sun Dec 11, 1994	65D	Exclamations like "Phooey!"	Wayne Robert Williams	Shortz

14 results for DRATS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu May 7, 1992	25D	Mild oaths	Dorothy Elliott	Maleska
Sun Nov 11, 1990	92A	Confounds	June A. Boggs	Maleska
Sun Oct 28, 1990	21D	Victorian expletives	Peter Swift	Maleska
Sun Dec 1, 1985	62A	"Doggone!" relatives	Mary Virginia Orna	Maleska
Sat Aug 11, 1979	49A	Words of annoyance	Dorothea E. Shipp	Maleska
Sun Feb 4, 1979	85A	Mild oaths	Bert H. Kruse	Maleska
Tue Jan 11, 1977	67A	Mild expletives	William Lutwiniak	Weng
Wed Oct 22, 1975	59A	Mild oaths	Virginia Butler	Weng
Wed Nov 20, 1974	49D	Mild oaths	Mary Harris	Weng
Tue Feb 5, 1974	44A	Mild oaths	Leonard Sussman	Weng
Fri Oct 26, 1951	31A	Mild oaths.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Jul 29, 1951	84A	Mild oaths.	Jules Arensberg	Farrar
Sun Oct 22, 1950	68A	Minced oaths.	Eugene Maleska	Farrar
Sun Feb 8, 1948	125D	Mild oaths.	R. Shoemaker	Farrar

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