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8 results for ABORTED from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu Apr 23, 2020	34D	Scrubbed (4)	Yacob Yonas and Erik Agard	Shortz
Thu Mar 12, 2020	15A	Scrubbed (4)	Ruth Bloomfield Margolin	Shortz
Sat Aug 12, 2017	12A	Scrubbed (4)	Kameron Austin Collins	Shortz
Sat Oct 15, 2011	8D	Decided not to run	Joon Pahk	Shortz
Wed Oct 17, 2001	10D	Scrubbed (4)	Greg Staples	Shortz
Fri May 12, 2000	51A	Cut short	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz
Sun May 16, 1999	101A	Stopped	Nancy Nicholson Joline	Shortz
Wed Jan 24, 1996	39D	Stopped at Cape Canaveral	J. Hess	Shortz

2 results for ABORTED from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Oct 20, 2019	Panda	36D	A debtor scrubbed	Mel Taub	Shortz
Jul 16, 2017	Panda	6D	Stopped a debtor	Joel Fagliano	Shortz

12 results for ABORTED from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri May 28, 1993	21A	Scrubbed, at NASA	Cathy Millhauser	Maleska
Fri Dec 18, 1992	37A	Canceled at Canaveral	Michael A. Rampino	Maleska
Sun Mar 29, 1992	89D	Scrubbed a mission	Ernst Theimer	Maleska
Fri Jan 25, 1991	43D	Called off a mission	Kenneth Witte	Maleska
Mon Sep 26, 1988	5D	Cut short aircraft flight	Albert J. Klaus	Maleska
Sat Oct 24, 1987	28A	Canceled a space mission	Kenneth Haxton	Maleska
Sun Jun 12, 1983	12D	Canceled a space flight	Warren W. Reich	Maleska
Fri Mar 11, 1983	30D	Stopped a launching	George P. Sphicas	Maleska
Fri Dec 13, 1974	41D	Cut short	Jim Plackner	Weng
Mon Feb 4, 1974	37A	Cut short	Dorothea E. Shipp	Weng
Sun Nov 25, 1973	82A	Cut short	Alfio Micci	Weng
Sun Jul 25, 1948	8D	Cut short.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar

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