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11 results for ANCIENT from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Feb 1, 2023	40A	Primeval	Dan Caprera	Shortz
Sat Jun 11, 2022	10D	Long gone	Sid Sivakumar	Shortz
Thu Sep 29, 2016	45D	Like the Aramaic language	Jonathan M. Kaye	Shortz
Sun Feb 21, 2016	28D	Like the Mesopotamian people	Patrick Berry	Shortz
Tue Mar 10, 2015	30D	Like the Dead Sea Scrolls	Allan E. Parrish	Shortz
Tue May 7, 2013	40A	With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across	Jeff Chen	Shortz
Thu Jan 28, 2010	23A	Person of olden times	Raymond C. Young	Shortz
Sun Oct 5, 2008	22A	Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g.	Byron Walden	Shortz
Fri May 6, 2005	30A	With 31-Across, literary character "whose beard with age is hoar"	Harvey Estes	Shortz
Wed Oct 13, 2004	46D	As old as the hills	Patrick Merrell	Shortz
Wed Apr 14, 2004	44D	Of interest to archaeologists	Randolph Ross	Shortz

1 result for ANCIENT from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Oct 1, 2017	Acrostic	Q	Antediluvian	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

21 results for ANCIENT from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jun 16, 1991	86D	Like S.T.C.'s Mariner	Michael J. Parris	Maleska
Sun Aug 23, 1987	93A	Antediluvian	Jim Page	Maleska
Wed May 30, 1984	57A	Like Coleridge's mariner	Richard N. Platt, Jr.	Maleska
Sun Jun 21, 1981	22D	Time-honored	Bert H. Kruse	Maleska
Sun Jan 7, 1979	97A	Long gone	Alex F. Black	Maleska
Sun May 2, 1976	28A	Like Tyre or Nineveh	Alexander F. Black	Weng
Wed Apr 19, 1972	18A	Hoary	Unknown	Weng
Wed Nov 3, 1971	44A	Like the mariner	Unknown	Weng
Wed Jan 29, 1964	28D	"___ of Days."	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Tue Jan 14, 1964	18A	"___ of Days."	Lois Hillis	Farrar
Tue Aug 2, 1960	29A	Old.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Oct 4, 1959	19D	What Iago was to Othello.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Thu Mar 19, 1959	27A	Hoary.	Eugene T. Maleska	Farrar
Sat Nov 30, 1957	60A	Old as the hills.	Unknown	Farrar
Sat May 18, 1957	22D	Of times long past.	Marion Moeser	Farrar
Sun Apr 21, 1957	23A	What Iago was to Othello.	William A. Lewis Jr.	Farrar
Thu Feb 9, 1956	15A	Of an older world.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Tue Sep 13, 1955	45D	The A in A. O. H.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sun Oct 19, 1952	138A	Word for the pyramids.	Israel Gitter	Farrar
Fri Jan 5, 1951	16A	"___ of days."	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Feb 22, 1948	60D	Time-honored, as Chinese lore.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar

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