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10 results for NIMBLE from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Mar 14, 2023	32D	Light-footed or quick-witted	Peter Gordon	Shortz
Sun Jan 9, 2022	8A	Quick-witted	Timothy Polin	Shortz
Wed Aug 30, 2017	4D	Spry	David J. Kahn	Shortz
Sun Apr 17, 2011	63A	Like Jack, it's said	Matt Ginsberg	Shortz
Tue Oct 28, 2008	49D	Hardly clumsy (2)	Allan E. Parrish	Shortz
Sun Mar 24, 2002	87A	Hardly clumsy (2)	Con Pederson	Shortz
Tue Jun 26, 2001	25A	Light-footed (2)	Stephen Windheim	Shortz
Tue Apr 3, 2001	44D	Light-footed (2)	Nancy Salomon and Sherry O. Blackard	Shortz
Sun May 4, 1997	34A	Like Jack	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz
Fri Aug 18, 1995	20A	Twinkle-toed	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

2 results for NIMBLE from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Nov 13, 2016	Acrostic	H	Quick and sure, deft	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Aug 3, 2014	Diagramless	1A	What Jack should be, besides quick, in a nursery rhyme	Paula Gamache	Shortz

8 results for NIMBLE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Mar 11, 1985	5D	"Jack, be ___"	Joy L. Wouk	Maleska
Sun Oct 2, 1983	108D	Mentally quick	Richard Silvestri	Maleska
Sun Aug 2, 1981	50D	What Jack has to be	Bert Rosenfield	Maleska
Wed Sep 14, 1977	5D	Adjective for a good shortstop	Jeanette K. Brill	Maleska
Sun Mar 3, 1974	76A	"Jack, be ___"	Jim Page	Weng
Tue Mar 22, 1955	23A	Full of animation.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Feb 26, 1954	24A	Quick-witted.	Israel Gitter	Farrar
Sun Jun 13, 1948	17D	Agile.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar

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