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16 results for DESADE from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Oct 30, 2020	18A	"Philosophy in the Bedroom" writer, 1795	Trenton Charlson	Shortz
Sat Mar 10, 2018	39A	He wrote "It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure"	Ryan McCarty	Shortz
Sat Jan 21, 2017	60A	He wrote "Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes"	James Mulhern	Shortz
Mon Oct 3, 2016	23A	Marquis ___ (French writer)	Jacob Stulberg	Shortz
Sat Apr 2, 2016	10D	Bastille prisoner of 1784-89	Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber	Shortz
Mon Jul 20, 2015	48D	"The Crimes of Love" author Marquis ___ (2)	John Westwig	Shortz
Sat Mar 17, 2012	49D	"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice" speaker	David Quarfoot	Shortz
Sat Jan 24, 2009	18A	"The Crimes of Love" author	Mark Diehl	Shortz
Thu Dec 13, 2007	46D	"Justine" novelist	John Farmer	Shortz
Thu Nov 11, 2004	19A	He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment"	Michael Shteyman	Shortz
Sat Jun 28, 2003	11D	French erotica writer	Robert H. Wolfe	Shortz
Sun May 18, 2003	127A	Noted libertine	Nancy Nicholson Joline	Shortz
Fri Mar 2, 2001	55A	"Justine" author, 1791	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz
Tue Feb 10, 1998	32A	"The Crimes of Love" author Marquis ___ (2)	John Greenman	Shortz
Sun May 28, 1995	30D	Infamous French soldier	Matt Gaffney	Shortz
Thu May 25, 1995	73A	Marquis ___	Harvey Estes	Shortz

6 results for DESADE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Nov 11, 1990	8D	Notorious marquis	June A. Boggs	Maleska
Fri Nov 1, 1985	23D	Marquis ___	Robert Katz	Maleska
Fri Mar 30, 1984	31D	Infamous marquis	Clavan	Maleska
Sat Dec 31, 1983	42A	Name linked with cruelty	A. J. Santora	Maleska
Fri Oct 12, 1979	44D	Marquis ___	Jordan S. Lasher	Maleska
Sun Nov 28, 1965	161A	Name linked to cruelty.	Will Weng	Farrar

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