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12 results for GOETHE from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Sep 9, 2022	43D	"Faust" playwright	Brandon Koppy	Shortz
Sat Sep 12, 2020	35D	Author who popularized the demon Mephistopheles	Ryan McCarty	Shortz
Tue Mar 19, 2019	71A	Author of "Faust"	Daniel Larsen	Shortz
Mon Jul 4, 2016	23A	German author who wrote "Faust"	Jill Denny and Jeff Chen	Shortz
Sun Oct 21, 2012	25A	"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" poet	Caleb Rasmussen	Shortz
Wed Aug 22, 2012	47A	See 45-Across	Peter A. Collins	Shortz
Fri Apr 20, 2012	29A	"The Sorrows of Young Werther" author	Mike Nothnagel	Shortz
Sun Jan 8, 2012	71A	Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines"	Tony Orbach	Shortz
Thu Dec 3, 2009	35A	Author of "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"	Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller	Shortz
Thu Jan 25, 2001	44D	"Roman Elegies" author	Robert H. Wolfe	Shortz
Mon Jan 13, 1997	48D	"Faust" dramatist	G. E. Paul	Shortz
Wed Sep 13, 1995	43A	German poet	Eileen Lexau	Shortz

3 results for GOETHE from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mar 26, 2023	Acrostic	R	Writer whose poems were set to music by Beethoven	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Dec 14, 2003	Acrostic	T	Author of "The Sorrows of Young Werther"	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Jan 30, 2000	Acrostic	M	Writer of the Sturm und Drang movement	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

10 results for GOETHE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jan 21, 1986	46D	German poet-dramatist	Rhonda Kraus	Maleska
Sat Oct 25, 1980	19D	Author of "Egmont"	Mermelstein	Maleska
Mon Feb 19, 1979	22A	Author of "Faust"	Samuel K. Fliegner	Maleska
Wed Dec 29, 1971	5D	German poet	Unknown	Weng
Fri Oct 20, 1967	5D	German poet.	William Lutwiniak	Farrar
Sun Apr 19, 1953	10D	Poet, dramatist, novelist, scientist.	Louis Baron	Farrar
Sun Nov 27, 1949	1A	He was born Aug. 28, 1849.	Alice Cook	Farrar
Sun Jan 11, 1948	43D	Author of "Faust."	Alberta N. Burton	Farrar
Sun Dec 14, 1947	81A	He wrote of Mephistopheles.	Louise Rabb	Farrar
Sun Nov 8, 1942	11D	His last words were, "Light, more light!"	Louis Baron	Farrar

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