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3 results for IRONCURTAIN from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Jun 24, 2020	47A	"Barrier" dismantled in 1991	Joe Deeney	Shortz
Tue May 3, 2011	61A	Continental divide, once	Kevan Choset	Shortz
Tue Sep 10, 1996	21A	Cold war barrier	G. E. Paul	Shortz

6 results for IRONCURTAIN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jul 21, 1974	61D	Sixth shade	Barbara Gillis	Weng
Sun Jun 18, 1972	20A	Notation on a laundry slip	Herbert Ettenson	Weng
Mon Jun 14, 1971	50A	Imaginary divider	Unknown	Weng
Sun Feb 27, 1966	60D	Churchill phrase, 1946.	William Lutwiniak	Farrar
Sun Aug 24, 1952	2D	Churchill said it, 1948.	Evelyn Smith	Farrar
Sun Jul 24, 1949	83A	State of rigid censorship and secrecy, coined by Churchill, 1946.	Alice Cook	Farrar

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