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4 results for PERSIAN from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Apr 27, 2018	37A	Cat known as a Shirazi in the Mideast	David Steinberg	Shortz
Sat Nov 25, 2000	18A	Warrior at Thermopylae	Patrick D. Berry	Shortz
Thu Feb 18, 1999	6D	Cyrus the Great, e.g.	Robert H. Wolfe	Shortz
Fri Oct 27, 1995	47A	Long-haired cat	Mark Diehl	Shortz

17 results for PERSIAN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Nov 17, 1993	32D	Ahasuerus was one	Lois Sidway	Taub
Sat Feb 17, 1990	17A	Kind of cat or rug	S. E. Wilkinson	Maleska
Sat Oct 7, 1989	10D	"One man's Mede is another man's ___"	Bernard Meren	Maleska
Wed Jul 17, 1985	25D	Kind of rug	Christopher Sherwood	Maleska
Tue Jul 1, 1975	64A	Omar, for one	DeWitt Anderson	Weng
Sat Sep 8, 1973	24D	Rug, cat or gulf	Unknown	Weng
Wed Aug 4, 1965	48A	Cat or carpet.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Apr 1, 1963	20A	Cat or rug.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Dec 10, 1962	20A	Cat or rug.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri May 25, 1962	30A	Cat.	Jean Reed	Farrar
Sun Mar 19, 1961	73A	Kind of melon.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar
Fri Nov 2, 1956	46A	Melon or cat.	Alice Skodzus	Farrar
Thu Oct 8, 1953	51A	___ Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Thu Jul 9, 1953	25D	Zoroaster or Xerxes.	S. A. Kay	Farrar
Tue Sep 2, 1952	39A	Native of Tabriz.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Dec 31, 1944	36A	Gulf receiving Shatt-el-Arab.	Agnes Cook	Farrar
Sun Sep 6, 1942	131A	Iranian.	J. L. Wordsworth	Farrar

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