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133 total results for GERM( score: 50 )
50 results for GERM from Modern Era puzzles:
Repeated clues show (number of Modern Era occurrences).
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Fri Oct 14, 2022 | 22A | "Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? / You probably contain a ___": Ogden Nash | David Steinberg | Shortz |
Mon Jul 11, 2022 | 66A | Microbe (2) | Roy Greim | Shortz |
Sun May 8, 2022 | 115D | Kernel of an idea | Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer | Shortz |
Sun Dec 26, 2021 | 46A | Beginning stage | Christina Iverson | Shortz |
Wed Nov 11, 2020 | 26D | Start of an idea (5) | Alex Bajcz | Shortz |
Wed Oct 28, 2020 | 38D | Start of an idea (5) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Thu Sep 24, 2020 | 1A | Start of a 14-Across | Trenton Charlson | Shortz |
Sat Nov 16, 2019 | 46A | Seed (3) | Daniel Larsen | Shortz |
Sun Jun 2, 2019 | 49A | Wheat ___ (3) | Erik Agard | Shortz |
Wed Apr 18, 2018 | 29A | Cause of a cold | Peter A. Collins and Bruce Haight | Shortz |
Thu Mar 15, 2018 | 53D | Wheat ___ (3) | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Sun Dec 3, 2017 | 103A | "Bug" (2) | David Steinberg | Shortz |
Mon Oct 30, 2017 | 21D | Target for a disinfectant wipe | Jay Kaskel | Shortz |
Wed Sep 13, 2017 | 42D | ___ warfare | Daniel Mauer | Shortz |
Tue Aug 22, 2017 | 58D | Infection cause | Timothy Polin | Shortz |
Tue Jan 31, 2017 | 40D | Start of an idea (5) | Neil Padrick Wilson | Shortz |
Sun Nov 6, 2016 | 101A | Genesis of an idea | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Sun May 1, 2016 | 50D | Wheat ___ (3) | Joel Fagliano and Byron Walden | Shortz |
Sat Apr 9, 2016 | 27A | Thought starter | David Phillips | Shortz |
Sat Aug 1, 2015 | 45D | It can make you sick (2) | Kameron Austin Collins | Shortz |
Sun Aug 10, 2014 | 66A | Purell target | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Mon Mar 11, 2013 | 10A | Bug (2) | Robert Fisher | Shortz |
Thu Jul 19, 2012 | 27A | Seed (3) | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Wed Jul 20, 2011 | 35D | It might make you sick (2) | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Mon Feb 28, 2011 | 3D | It may be what ails you | Mike Buckley | Shortz |
Wed Jan 19, 2011 | 32D | Lysol target | Kristian House | Shortz |
Fri Nov 19, 2010 | 51A | Basis | Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Wed Oct 27, 2010 | 34D | "Cootie" | Jay Kaskel | Shortz |
Tue Apr 6, 2010 | 13D | Start, as of an idea (2) | Sarah Keller | Shortz |
Sun Feb 28, 2010 | 95A | Idea's start | Yaakov Bendavid | Shortz |
Sun Nov 29, 2009 | 73A | Starting point (3) | Will Nediger | Shortz |
Tue Mar 31, 2009 | 35D | Listerine target (2) | Allan E. Parrish | Shortz |
Sun Jan 27, 2008 | 92D | Beginning, as of an idea | Mike Nothnagel | Shortz |
Sun Oct 28, 2007 | 40A | It might make you sick (2) | Ben Tausig | Shortz |
Fri Jul 21, 2006 | 23A | It's sickening | Kyle Mahowald | Shortz |
Sat Jun 3, 2006 | 46D | Spark | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Mon Nov 1, 2004 | 5A | It can make you sick (2) | Kendall Twigg and Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Sat Aug 23, 2003 | 29A | Starting point (3) | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Wed Jul 9, 2003 | 44D | Start of an idea (5) | Patrick Merrell | Shortz |
Sun Sep 23, 2001 | 28A | Start of an idea (5) | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Wed Feb 7, 2001 | 5D | Idea's beginning | Kent Lorentzen | Shortz |
Tue Jan 30, 2001 | 3D | Origin, as of an idea | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Wed May 31, 2000 | 5D | Disease cause | M. Francis Vuolo | Shortz |
Thu Apr 23, 1998 | 10A | Starting point (3) | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
Wed Apr 22, 1998 | 3D | Kind of warfare | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Mon May 5, 1997 | 70A | Microbe (2) | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
Wed Aug 28, 1996 | 42D | Start, as of an idea (2) | F. Heaney | Shortz |
Sun Apr 7, 1996 | 123A | Listerine target (2) | C. Millhauser | Shortz |
Thu Mar 21, 1996 | 52A | Wheat center | H. Estes | Shortz |
Tue Sep 27, 1994 | 33D | Seed (3) | Eileen Lexau | Shortz |
83 results for GERM from pre-Shortz puzzles:
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sun Jul 11, 1993 | 12D | Microbe | Ernst Theimer | Maleska |
Sun Feb 28, 1993 | 97D | Seed | Kenneth Haxton | Maleska |
Tue Sep 22, 1992 | 30D | Bacillus | Norma Steinberg | Maleska |
Sun Jul 7, 1991 | 41D | Pathogen | Caroline G. Fitzgerald | Maleska |
Sun Jun 24, 1990 | 12D | Microbe | Jack R. Harnes | Maleska |
Thu Feb 9, 1989 | 41A | Hypochondriac's dread | Eli Wesoff | Maleska |
Thu Jan 5, 1989 | 1A | Bud | Frances Hansen | Maleska |
Mon Oct 31, 1988 | 49A | Microbe | Nancy Joline | Maleska |
Thu Jul 7, 1988 | 21D | Bacterium | Margaret W. Huskey | Maleska |
Sun Feb 21, 1988 | 90D | Spore | Frances Hansen | Maleska |
Tue Dec 16, 1986 | 9D | Bacterium | Jeanne Wilson | Maleska |
Sat Oct 19, 1985 | 1A | Origin | Peter G. Snow | Maleska |
Thu Sep 5, 1985 | 38A | Microbe | Eli Wesoff | Maleska |
Thu Sep 13, 1984 | 26D | Seed; origin | Eugene T. Maleska | Maleska |
Sun Apr 29, 1984 | 12D | "Bug" | Louis Baron | Maleska |
Tue Jan 10, 1984 | 40D | Microbe | Elaine George | Maleska |
Tue Dec 6, 1983 | 2D | Seed | Arnold Moss | Maleska |
Fri Jun 10, 1983 | 62A | Rudiment | Fennessy | Maleska |
Sat May 7, 1983 | 46D | Bud | Nancy McCarthy | Maleska |
Fri Mar 18, 1983 | 33A | Genesis | William Lutwiniak | Maleska |
Mon Sep 27, 1982 | 21A | Hypochondriac's dread | Nancy McCarthy | Maleska |
Tue Jan 6, 1981 | 2D | Origin | Kay Sullivan | Maleska |
Fri Aug 22, 1980 | 56A | Origin | C. J. Angio | Maleska |
Sun Apr 29, 1979 | 114D | Bud or seed | Richard Silvestri | Maleska |
Sun Feb 25, 1979 | 106D | Microbe | James and Phyllis Barrick | Maleska |
Wed Jan 31, 1979 | 48D | Bacterium | Maura B. Jacobson | Maleska |
Sun Dec 3, 1978 | 31D | Seed | Alfio Micci | Maleska |
Sun Dec 25, 1977 | 116A | Beginning | Anne Fox | Maleska |
Tue Dec 20, 1977 | 59A | Bacillus | Ruth N. Schultz | Maleska |
Thu Dec 15, 1977 | 23A | Seed | Stephanie Spadaccini | Maleska |
Sat Oct 8, 1977 | 59A | Hypochondriac's dread | Jack Luzzatto | Maleska |
Wed Oct 6, 1976 | 14A | Seed | Hallie & Gerald Parsons | Weng |
Fri Nov 21, 1975 | 23D | Wheat ___ | Samuel H. Barkan | Weng |
Sat Mar 16, 1974 | 43A | Lab-slide item | Hugh McElroy | Weng |
Sat Jan 26, 1974 | 17D | Source | H. Hastings Reddall | Weng |
Wed Mar 22, 1972 | 1D | Source | Unknown | Weng |
Tue Nov 23, 1971 | 54D | Beginning | Unknown | Weng |
Mon Aug 4, 1969 | 69A | Virus's cousin. | Unknown | Weng |
Thu Sep 26, 1968 | 33A | Wheat ___. | Unknown | Farrar |
Tue Jul 9, 1968 | 60A | Bud or seed. | Unknown | Farrar |
Mon Apr 1, 1968 | 46A | Seed. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sun Mar 10, 1968 | 118A | Wheat ___. | William A. Lewis, Jr. | Farrar |
Sat Feb 10, 1968 | 29A | Microorganism. | Unknown | Farrar |
Wed Jan 31, 1968 | 19A | Origin. | Unknown | Farrar |
Mon Nov 13, 1967 | 53A | Seed. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sun Nov 12, 1967 | 82A | Rudiment. | Frances Hansen | Farrar |
Fri Aug 11, 1967 | 51D | Origin. | Mary M. Murdoch | Farrar |
Wed Nov 17, 1965 | 21A | Origin. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sat May 8, 1965 | 55D | Rudiment. | Unknown | Farrar |
Thu Jan 7, 1965 | 58A | Seed. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sat Oct 19, 1963 | 7D | Origin. | A. H. Drummond, Jr. | Farrar |
Mon Mar 18, 1963 | 58D | Wheat ___. | James E. Hinish, Jr. | Farrar |
Wed Feb 13, 1963 | 21D | Origin. | Helen Fasulo | Farrar |
Sun Jun 24, 1962 | 45A | Rudiment. | A. J. Santora | Farrar |
Tue Nov 28, 1961 | 63A | Origin. | Unknown | Farrar |
Tue Apr 25, 1961 | 18A | Seed, bud, etc. | Unknown | Farrar |
Tue Apr 11, 1961 | 59A | Origin. | Unknown | Farrar |
Mon Oct 3, 1960 | 44A | Origin. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sun Jan 10, 1960 | 38A | Origin. | Jack Luzzatto | Farrar |
Sun Dec 27, 1959 | 123A | Source. | Harold T. Bers | Farrar |
Wed Jul 8, 1959 | 39A | Origin. | Sidney Lambert | Farrar |
Fri Nov 7, 1958 | 36A | Beginning. | H. L. Risteen | Farrar |
Thu Feb 20, 1958 | 51D | Seed. | Eugene T. Maleska | Farrar |
Mon Jun 24, 1957 | 53D | Beginning. | Herbert Lyle | Farrar |
Sun Feb 3, 1957 | 37D | Rudiment. | H. C. Craft | Farrar |
Tue Jan 18, 1955 | 63A | Seed. | Bernice Gordon | Farrar |
Sun Nov 21, 1954 | 26A | Rudiment. | Alice Cook | Farrar |
Sun May 9, 1954 | 86D | Rudimentary beginning. | Sidney Lambert | Farrar |
Fri Dec 18, 1953 | 36D | Origin of an idea. | Thomas Meekin | Farrar |
Fri Mar 6, 1953 | 49D | Unwelcome winter visitor. | Unknown | Farrar |
Mon May 5, 1952 | 39A | Beginning. | Unknown | Farrar |
Wed Dec 26, 1951 | 50D | A beginning. | Unknown | Farrar |
Thu Nov 22, 1951 | 44A | Beginning of an idea. | Unknown | Farrar |
Fri Oct 19, 1951 | 38D | A beginning or rudiment. | Unknown | Farrar |
Wed Oct 17, 1951 | 54A | Microorganism. | Unknown | Farrar |
Thu May 3, 1951 | 6A | The beginning of an idea. | S. A. Kay | Farrar |
Tue Feb 27, 1951 | 16D | Microbe. | Thomas Meekin | Farrar |
Sun Nov 5, 1950 | 37A | Embryo. | Thomas Meekin | Farrar |
Sun Apr 30, 1950 | 129A | Disease carrier. | Harold T. Bers | Farrar |
Sun May 2, 1948 | 71D | Rudiment. | P. J. Lamanna | Farrar |
Sun Jan 2, 1944 | 32D | Rudiment. | Louis Baron | Farrar |
Sun Sep 19, 1943 | 51A | Beginning. | Louis Jenkins | Farrar |
Sun Nov 8, 1942 | 5D | Disease-bearing organism. | Louis Baron | Farrar |