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10 results for SAMSPADE from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jul 17, 2022	93D	Humphrey Bogart role	Greg Slovacek	Shortz
Tue Apr 28, 2020	35D	"The Maltese Falcon" detective	Joel Fagliano	Shortz
Fri Apr 4, 2008	56A	Sleuth who "looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan"	David Quarfoot	Shortz
Thu Sep 1, 2005	69A	1929 literary character in San Francisco	Kevan Choset	Shortz
Sat Dec 1, 2001	1A	"The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" speaker	Peter Gordon	Shortz
Sat Sep 22, 2001	1A	1941 film noir hero	Jim Page	Shortz
Sat Feb 14, 1998	32D	Hero who debuted in Black Mask magazine, 1929	Mark Diehl	Shortz
Sun Nov 2, 1997	8D	"The Maltese Falcon" role	Nancy Nicholson Joline	Shortz
Fri Jun 9, 1995	22A	1941 Humphrey Bogart role	A.J. Santora	Shortz
Fri Sep 2, 1994	15D	Fictional detective	Bryant White	Shortz

1 result for SAMSPADE from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Jul 31, 2016	Panda	35D	Fictional detective who made saps confess	Joel Fagliano	Shortz

12 results for SAMSPADE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Apr 27, 1988	20A	Bogart role	Norma Steinberg	Maleska
Mon Feb 8, 1988	62A	A Bogart role	Ernie Furtado	Maleska
Sat Jul 14, 1984	10A	Fictional detective	Peter G. Snow	Maleska
Fri Oct 9, 1981	29A	Hammett private eye	Nancy McCarthy	Maleska
Thu Oct 2, 1980	40A	Fictional sleuth	Eli Wesoff	Maleska
Mon Nov 5, 1979	20A	Detective of fiction	George Laczko	Maleska
Fri Nov 26, 1965	54A	Classic Bogart role.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Apr 2, 1965	39D	Memorable Bogart role.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue May 17, 1960	4D	Hammett's hard-boiled sleuth.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Oct 11, 1959	71A	Fictional sleuth.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar
Sun Feb 2, 1958	109D	Hammett's protagonist.	Charles E. Gersch	Farrar
Thu Aug 1, 1957	26A	Hammett's detective.	A. H. Drummond, Jr.	Farrar

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