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7 results for PINKO from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jul 6, 2021	7D	Cold War era epithet	Katie Hale	Shortz
Wed Feb 27, 2019	37A	Red Scare epithet	Will Nediger	Shortz
Tue Dec 30, 2014	12D	Socialist, disparagingly	Jeffrey Wechsler	Shortz
Fri Feb 15, 2013	45D	McCarthy-era epithet	Tom Heilman	Shortz
Mon Sep 6, 2010	16A	Commie (2)	Randall J. Hartman	Shortz
Mon Jul 6, 1998	42A	Commie (2)	Sheldon Benardo	Shortz
Tue May 23, 1995	28D	Suspiciously left, 50's style	Jay Livingston	Shortz

5 results for PINKO from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Jan 27, 1979	40D	Fellow traveler	Jack Luzzatto	Maleska
Mon Feb 17, 1975	5A	Relative of a commie	Ruth N. Schultz	Weng
Thu Aug 6, 1964	48D	Relative of a red.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun May 29, 1955	50A	Parlor radical: Slang.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar
Wed Apr 15, 1953	24A	Radical thinker of the Thirties.	Unknown	Farrar

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