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2 results for COTERIES from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Apr 14, 2012	12D	Sets of friends	Mark Diehl	Shortz
Fri Oct 20, 1995	39A	Circles	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

3 results for COTERIES from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Oct 21, 1990	57A	Cliques	Phyllis Fehringer	Maleska
Thu Feb 9, 1984	6D	Sets	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Wed Jul 22, 1953	34D	Literary circles.	Bernice Gordon	Farrar

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