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2 results for ERLKING from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Oct 25, 2009	Acrostic	B	Malevolent sprite in Germanic lore, the subject of a Schubert piece	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Sep 7, 2003	Acrostic	N	Mythological spirit supposed to work great mischief	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

5 results for ERLKING from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Jun 20, 1981	20A	Mischievous menace to moppets in Munich	Dorothea E. Shipp	Maleska
Tue Sep 17, 1968	41D	Mischievous elf of German folklore.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun May 5, 1963	9D	Figure in Goethe ballad.	Paula Bauersmith	Farrar
Thu Nov 8, 1956	20A	Subject of Goethe ballad.	W. E. Jones	Farrar
Sun Jan 23, 1955	77D	Subject of a Goethe ballad.	Bernice Gordon	Farrar

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