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6 results for AFRICAN from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Sep 20, 2020	58D	Like most lions	Sam Trabucco	Shortz
Sun May 20, 2018	20A	Like okapis and giraffes	Will Nediger	Shortz
Thu Mar 8, 2018	39D	Like the earliest humans	Jim Quinlan	Shortz
Mon Nov 9, 2009	21D	From Niger or Nigeria	Lynn Lempel	Shortz
Wed Jun 11, 2003	44D	Kind of violet (2)	Nancy Salomon	Shortz
Thu Sep 1, 1994	25A	Kind of violet (2)	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

2 results for AFRICAN from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Aug 21, 2016	Acrostic	B	Like ostriches and okapis	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Aug 29, 2010	Acrostic	W	Kind of marigold native to Mexico, oddly	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

10 results for AFRICAN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Oct 15, 1988	18A	Alan Paton, e.g.	Walter Covell	Maleska
Sun Aug 31, 1986	61A	Tutu or Bongo	Frances Hansen	Maleska
Sat Feb 17, 1973	42D	Cinematic Queen	Unknown	Weng
Sun Apr 30, 1961	51A	Native of Mauritania.	A. J. Santora	Farrar
Tue Aug 9, 1960	6D	Continental on the road to independence.	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Jun 17, 1954	26D	Native of Monrovia.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sun May 30, 1954	57A	Bogart's "Queen."	Marion Moeser	Farrar
Sun Mar 2, 1952	101D	Native of Nairobi.	Louis Baron	Farrar
Wed Jun 6, 1951	16A	King Farouk, for instance.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Jul 9, 1944	108A	Haile Selassie.	L. K. Peters	Farrar

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