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15 results for NOTBAD from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Mar 24, 2019	96A	"Looks promising!"	Trenton Charlson	Shortz
Wed Nov 7, 2018	29D	Halfway decent	Timothy Polin	Shortz
Sat Oct 13, 2018	33A	Fair	Kevin G. Der	Shortz
Tue Jul 17, 2018	49D	So-so (2)	Amanda Chung and Karl Ni	Shortz
Sat Oct 1, 2011	7D	"I'm impressed!" (3)	David Quarfoot	Shortz
Thu Feb 17, 2011	69A	"I'm impressed" (3)	Mike Nothnagel	Shortz
Fri Sep 25, 2009	46D	"I'm impressed, man!"	Robert A. Doll	Shortz
Mon Jun 29, 2009	27A	"Hey, way to go!"	Paula Gamache	Shortz
Sun Nov 25, 2007	56A	Decent	Trip Payne	Shortz
Mon Apr 12, 2004	51D	"Pretty good!"	Gail Grabowski	Shortz
Tue Jun 10, 2003	24D	"Pretty nice!"	Elizabeth C. Gorski	Shortz
Mon Dec 31, 2001	25A	Comment of approval	Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes	Shortz
Wed Aug 30, 2000	1D	"I'm impressed!" (3)	Brendan Emmett Quigley	Shortz
Tue Jul 22, 1997	44D	So-so (2)	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Wed Aug 21, 1996	21D	O.K.	Fred Piscop	Shortz

11 results for NOTBAD from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Sep 13, 1986	47D	Words of faint praise	Patterson Pepple	Maleska
Wed Jun 22, 1977	60A	Passable	William Lutwiniak	Maleska
Tue Apr 7, 1970	50D	So-so	Unknown	Weng
Sun Dec 1, 1968	111A	Tolerable	W. A. Lewis Jr.	Farrar
Tue Jan 5, 1965	50D	Fairly good.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Sep 21, 1964	34A	Pretty good.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Jun 27, 1962	1A	Pretty good.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Tue Aug 3, 1954	44D	Pretty good!	Marjorie Morse	Farrar
Tue Apr 27, 1954	24A	Pretty good.	William F. Bulow	Farrar
Tue Jun 24, 1952	46A	Expression of partial approval.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Jan 31, 1951	50D	Passable: 2 wds.	S. A. Kay	Farrar

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