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64 total results for PHDS( score: 50 )

47 results for PHDS from Modern Era puzzles:

Repeated clues show (number of Modern Era occurrences).

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Feb 12, 2024	61D	Professors' degs. (2)	Jess Shulman and Amie Walker	Shortz
Sat Feb 10, 2024	50A	Honors held by only one U.S. president and one U.K. prime minister	Zhouqin Burnikel	Shortz
Sun Nov 12, 2023	62A	Degrees for most profs	Garrett Chalfin	Shortz
Fri Jun 17, 2022	25D	Many college profs (4)	Pao Roy	Shortz
Wed Jun 8, 2022	56D	Many profs (3)	Bruce Haight	Shortz
Sat May 21, 2022	51D	Results of some successful defenses	Ryan McCarty and Yacob Yonas	Shortz
Mon May 2, 2022	55D	Some advanced degree holders	Erik Agard	Shortz
Tue Feb 22, 2022	64A	Third degrees, for short	Jacob McDermott	Shortz
Sun Jun 27, 2021	70D	High degrees, for short	Ross Trudeau and Lindsey Hobbs	Shortz
Sun Jun 16, 2019	35A	Major academic achievements	Joel Fagliano	Shortz
Mon Jun 3, 2019	56D	Degrees after M.A.s	Lynn Lempel	Shortz
Sun Nov 4, 2018	10D	Many faculty members, in brief	Patrick Berry	Shortz
Sun Jan 21, 2018	118A	Achievements of Henry Kissinger and Martin Luther King Jr., in brief	Victor Barocas and Andy Kravis	Shortz
Sun Oct 1, 2017	60D	Most profs	Robert Fisher	Shortz
Sun May 14, 2017	21D	Many profs (3)	Will Nediger	Shortz
Fri Nov 4, 2016	28D	Elite group of grads	David Steinberg	Shortz
Sun Oct 9, 2016	112D	Many tenured profs	Michael Ashley	Shortz
Wed Sep 14, 2016	54D	Degs. for many professors	Dan Schoenholz	Shortz
Sat Jan 9, 2016	58D	Condoleezza Rice and Martin Luther King Jr., for two	Jason Flinn	Shortz
Sun Sep 6, 2015	50A	Degrees of magnitude?	Patrick Berry	Shortz
Fri Jul 3, 2015	23A	Goals of some candidates	Brandon Hensley	Shortz
Wed Mar 26, 2014	51D	Nth degrees?	Alex Vratsanos	Shortz
Sun Jun 23, 2013	14A	Upper-tier academics	Patrick Berry	Shortz
Sun Jan 1, 2012	1A	Many college profs (4)	Patrick Berry	Shortz
Wed Jul 6, 2011	1A	Degrees of excellence?	Peter Collins	Shortz
Thu Jun 16, 2011	32D	Pursuits of some candidates, for short	David Steinberg	Shortz
Sat Feb 5, 2011	21D	Many academics, for short	Mark Diehl	Shortz
Tue Dec 7, 2010	57D	Degs. for many profs	Andrea Carla Michaels and Kent Clayton	Shortz
Mon Apr 12, 2010	48D	Highest degrees (2)	Ian Livengood	Shortz
Mon Jun 30, 2008	1D	Grad school achievements	Lynn Lempel	Shortz
Tue May 20, 2008	1D	Profs' degs.	Billie Truitt	Shortz
Tue Apr 15, 2008	63D	Advanced degs.	Ken Bessette	Shortz
Mon Jan 14, 2008	6D	Academics' degrees	Robert Dillman	Shortz
Tue Jul 24, 2007	22D	Many profs. (3)	Bruce Adams	Shortz
Sun Oct 8, 2006	80D	Many college profs (4)	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Mon Apr 3, 2006	57D	Profs have them	Lynn Lempel	Shortz
Thu Jun 9, 2005	48A	Goals of some candidates, for short	David J. Kahn	Shortz
Tue Apr 12, 2005	38D	Highest degrees (2)	Nancy Salomon	Shortz
Fri Mar 15, 2002	43A	Master's superiors?	Brendan Emmett Quigley	Shortz
Wed Sep 6, 2000	56D	Thesis penners	Matt Gaffney	Shortz
Fri Dec 31, 1999	47A	Professors' degs. (2)	Peter Gordon	Shortz
Mon Nov 15, 1999	1D	High degrees?	Nick Grivas	Shortz
Sun Dec 20, 1998	101D	Academic types	Frances Hansen	Shortz
Sun Apr 16, 1995	107D	Many college profs. (4)	Matt Gaffney	Shortz
Sun Dec 25, 1994	19D	Third degrees	Randolph Ross	Shortz
Sun Nov 13, 1994	44D	Some scholars, for short	Frank A. Longo	Shortz
Mon Jul 4, 1994	48D	Third degrees, usually	Joel Davajan	Shortz

1 result for PHDS from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Dec 31, 2006	Diagramless	18D	Third degrees	Paula Gamache	Shortz

16 results for PHDS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Sep 26, 1992	50D	Univ. third degrees	Tap Osborn	Maleska
Wed Dec 9, 1981	34A	What many profs are	Morton Braun	Maleska
Sun Apr 18, 1976	91A	Graduate degrees	Hume R. Craft	Weng
Sun Sep 21, 1975	97A	Graduate degrees	Bill Hartman	Weng
Wed Oct 15, 1969	1D	Advanced degrees.	Unknown	Weng
Sat May 27, 1967	55A	Advanced degrees.	Arthur Schulman	Farrar
Wed Nov 16, 1966	5A	Degrees.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Mar 28, 1965	37A	Men of high degree.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Sun Oct 18, 1964	125D	Certain scholars.	Hume R. Craft	Farrar
Thu Jul 2, 1964	53D	Certain doctors.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Apr 12, 1964	5A	Advanced students.	Mary Grow	Farrar
Sun Nov 11, 1962	130D	Degrees.	Will C. Weng	Farrar
Wed Jun 24, 1959	31D	Men of high degree.	Norton Rhoades	Farrar
Tue Sep 3, 1957	50D	Doctorates.	Jules Arensberg	Farrar
Tue Mar 9, 1954	56D	Degree holders.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Sep 7, 1953	50D	Scholars of high degree.	Ethel Le Strange	Farrar

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