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8 results for NOFUN from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Mar 29, 2023	14A	Like a wet blanket (3)	Ben Zoon	Shortz
Sun May 24, 2020	52D	Like a Debbie Downer	Andrew Chaikin	Shortz
Thu Aug 15, 2019	6D	Dullsville	Andrew Zhou	Shortz
Mon Aug 29, 2016	8D	Completely joyless	David Steinberg	Shortz
Sat Sep 26, 2015	47D	Like a wet blanket (3)	David Woolf	Shortz
Fri Apr 17, 2015	2D	Like a buzzkill	Mary Lou Guizzo	Shortz
Sun Mar 15, 2015	40D	A drag	Dan Feyer	Shortz
Fri May 23, 2008	25A	Like a wet blanket (3)	Patrick John Duggan	Shortz

1 result for NOFUN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Jul 1, 1959	49D	Not amusing: Colloq.	W. E. Jones	Farrar

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