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19 results for ROTTEN from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Mar 7, 2025	41D	Rancid	Malaika Handa	Shortz
Sat Feb 20, 2021	55A	Really not good anymore	Ali Gascoigne	Shortz
Sat Aug 15, 2020	56A	Not just rank	Joe DiPietro	Shortz
Fri Jun 1, 2018	61A	No-good (8)	Andrew J. Ries	Shortz
Sat Apr 15, 2017	25D	Lacking scruples	Peter Wentz	Shortz
Tue Apr 7, 2015	45D	No-good (8)	David J. Lieb	Shortz
Tue Jan 10, 2012	35A	No-good (8)	Gary Cee	Shortz
Mon Jun 27, 2011	47D	No-good (8)	Joseph Samulak	Shortz
Sun Nov 15, 2009	32A	No-good (8)	Elizabeth C. Gorski	Shortz
Wed Aug 19, 2009	48D	Raising a stink?	Peter A. Collins	Shortz
Thu Nov 6, 2008	57D	No-good (8)	Jeremy Newton	Shortz
Mon Feb 25, 2008	49D	Spoiled	Randall J. Hartman	Shortz
Tue Jun 19, 2007	63A	Way past ripe (3)	John Underwood	Shortz
Mon Mar 5, 2007	10D	Way past ripe (3)	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Fri Apr 22, 2005	48D	No-good (8)	Myles Callum	Shortz
Fri Jan 28, 2005	56A	No-good (8)	Eric Berlin	Shortz
Sun Aug 26, 2001	24A	Rank	Richard Silvestri	Shortz
Wed Sep 27, 2000	48D	Way past ripe (3)	Fred Piscop	Shortz
Sat Apr 2, 1994	37D	Reprobate	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

3 results for ROTTEN from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Apr 25, 2021	Acrostic	X	"____ wood cannot be carved" (Confucius)	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Dec 2, 2012	Acrostic	G	Drunk, in the Outback; punk	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz
Dec 2, 2001	Acrostic	R	Saprogenic	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

16 results for ROTTEN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jan 19, 1993	43A	Like a bad apple	Jim Page	Maleska
Fri Jan 15, 1988	30A	London's ___ Row	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Mon Oct 28, 1985	31A	London's ___ Row	James R. Burns	Maleska
Wed Mar 14, 1984	42D	Spoiled	Albert J. Klaus	Maleska
Fri May 21, 1982	10D	London's ___ Row	Bert H. Kruse	Maleska
Sun Dec 27, 1981	122D	Spoiled	Anne Fox	Maleska
Mon Jun 27, 1977	27A	Spoiled	Young	Maleska
Tue Aug 26, 1975	18D	Like Hamlet's Denmark	John Prytz	Weng
Sun Oct 30, 1966	140A	___ Row.	Threba Johnson	Farrar
Thu Jul 30, 1953	5D	Condition of Denmark in Hamlet's day.	W. E. Jones	Farrar
Tue Feb 5, 1952	33A	___ Row, for British equestrians.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Apr 8, 1951	11D	___ Row where Londoners ride.	Charles Cross	Farrar
Sun Jul 2, 1950	43A	___ Row, London bridle path.	Ralph Anderson	Farrar
Sun Jul 6, 1947	87A	Unsound.	P. J. Lamanna	Farrar
Sun Dec 22, 1946	23A	___ Row, famous drive, Hyde Park, London.	Lester Keene	Farrar
Sun Jan 21, 1945	111A	___ Row, London.	L. K. Peters	Farrar

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