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6 results for RIPLEY from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Nov 17, 2023	20A	Onetime collector of bizarre facts	Hemant Mehta	Shortz
Sun Nov 24, 2019	8D	Founder of New York's Odditorium in 1939	Frank Longo	Shortz
Sun Nov 19, 2017	62A	One after whom a Times Square museum is named	Tom McCoy	Shortz
Fri Jun 22, 2007	15D	Collector of bizarre facts	Mike Nothnagel	Shortz
Mon Jul 25, 2005	58A	Robert ___ ... believe him, or not!	Lynn Lempel	Shortz
Thu Jan 15, 1998	38A	"Alien" heroine	Arthur S. Verdesca	Shortz

1 result for RIPLEY from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Dec 5, 2010	Acrostic	A	Entrepreneur who founded an Odditorium	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

3 results for RIPLEY from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Jun 4, 1975	24A	"Believe It or Not" man	Sara V. Tuckerman	Weng
Fri Mar 23, 1962	4D	One of the Transcendentalists.	Joseph S. Crowell	Farrar
Sun Aug 14, 1949	95A	"Believe it or not" creator.	Elizabeth Patterson	Farrar

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