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2 results for IDLENESS from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Nov 8, 2022	43D	Do-nothing state	Enrique Henestroza Anguiano	Shortz
Wed Sep 22, 1999	37D	"The mother of corruption": Montaigne	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

3 results for IDLENESS from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Aug 1, 2021	Acrostic	F	"The Dead Sea that swallows all virtues," per Benjamin Franklin	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Sep 8, 2013	Acrostic	B	Quality of a sloth	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Jul 11, 2004	Acrostic	N	"___ is the heaviest of all oppressions" (Victor Hugo)	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

4 results for IDLENESS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Sep 14, 1958	68D	Dolce far niente.	Grace Hoster	Farrar
Wed Feb 26, 1958	64A	Doing nothing.	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Dec 22, 1955	62A	Immobility.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Nov 18, 1945	16D	Baselessness.	W. W. Webster	Farrar

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