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5 results for SLINKY from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Feb 27, 2023	40D	Classic toy with the jingle lyric "a spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!"	David Rockow	Shortz
Wed Jan 11, 2012	13D	Toy consisting of 80 feet of wire	Chuck Deodene	Shortz
Sun Sep 19, 2004	3D	Spring toy	Kyle Mahowald	Shortz
Thu Oct 24, 2002	9D	American toy introduced in 1945	Patrick Merrell	Shortz
Sun Oct 13, 2002	20D	It goes downstairs	Elizabeth C. Gorski	Shortz

1 result for SLINKY from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Feb 16, 2020	Acrostic	I	80 feet of wire in a two-inch spiral	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

2 results for SLINKY from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Aug 26, 1990	34A	Sinuous	Norma Steinberg	Maleska
Sun Apr 3, 1955	13A	Furtive.	Ruth H. Oliver	Farrar

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