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6 results for MANDARIN from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Apr 12, 2002	57A	High-muck-a-muck	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz
Fri Mar 8, 2002	36D	Language of 800+ million	David J. Kahn	Shortz
Tue Mar 5, 2002	23A	Kind of orange	Marjorie Richter	Shortz
Sun Oct 6, 1996	10D	+Bureaucrat	R. Max Hopkins	Shortz
Wed Jun 5, 1996	18D	It has 844 million native speakers	G. R. Ferguson	Shortz
Thu Aug 17, 1995	37D	Chinese	Rand H. Burns	Shortz

14 results for MANDARIN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Oct 30, 1987	34D	Chinese language	Kathryn Righter	Maleska
Sat Oct 5, 1985	4D	Small orange	Peter Swift	Maleska
Sat Aug 24, 1985	20A	Pompous pundit	Jesse Roarke	Maleska
Tue Aug 6, 1985	5D	Kind of orange	Shirley Soloway	Maleska
Tue Sep 13, 1983	4D	Type of orange or duck	Whitten	Maleska
Wed Jun 29, 1983	2D	Variety of orange	Dorothy Elliott	Maleska
Thu Jan 1, 1976	4D	Orange	Alfio Micci	Weng
Fri Dec 1, 1967	5D	Chief Chinese dialect.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Mar 28, 1966	40A	Chinese dialect.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Jun 23, 1964	6D	Tangerine.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Jun 20, 1960	9D	Chinese dialect.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Oct 12, 1955	16A	Chinese orange.	Jules Arensberg	Farrar
Sun Jan 11, 1953	133A	Standard Chinese.	Albert Carroll	Farrar
Wed Nov 15, 1950	22A	Chief dialect of China.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar

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