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3 results for PURISM from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Dec 17, 2004	1A	Insistence on precise standards	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz
Fri Jan 17, 2003	43A	Early 20th-century art movement	Sherry O. Blackard	Shortz
Thu Sep 30, 1999	50A	Stickler's creed	Matt Gaffney	Shortz

8 results for PURISM from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Apr 10, 1990	33A	Observance of correctness	Walter Covell	Maleska
Thu May 29, 1986	23A	Early 20th-century French art style	Jeanette K. Brill	Maleska
Sat Jan 26, 1980	24D	Rigid insistence on nicety	William Lutwiniak	Maleska
Sat Aug 3, 1963	12D	Adherence to nicety in diction.	Unknown	Farrar
Sat Aug 20, 1960	47A	Rigid insistence on nicety.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Feb 17, 1960	22D	Insistence on precise usage of language.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Dec 6, 1955	38D	Meticulosity.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Feb 15, 1948	50A	Rigid nicety in use of words.	P. J. Lamanna	Farrar

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