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14 results for NOOIL from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue May 31, 2022	14A	Request to someone dressing your submarine sandwich	Sam Buchbinder and Brad Wilber	Shortz
Tue Jul 14, 2020	48D	Dieter's food request, maybe	Stella Zawistowski	Shortz
Sun Jun 25, 2017	98A	Dieter's salad order request	Jacob Stulberg	Shortz
Sat Nov 15, 2014	16A	Request for a hero	Peter Wentz	Shortz
Tue Jan 7, 2014	54D	Dieter's salad request	Mark Bickham	Shortz
Sun Aug 21, 2011	67A	Salad orderer's request (2)	Alan Arbesfeld	Shortz
Fri May 20, 2011	51A	Certain salad orderer's request	David Levinson Wilk	Shortz
Mon Apr 13, 2009	41A	Reason for engine trouble, perhaps (2)	Natan Last	Shortz
Sat Dec 6, 2008	59A	Salad or sandwich request	Ashish Vengsarkar & Narayan Venkatasubramanyan	Shortz
Tue Oct 7, 2008	41D	Cause of a blown engine, maybe (2)	Kevin G. Der	Shortz
Sat Jun 12, 2004	11D	Salad orderer's request (2)	Henry Hook	Shortz
Sun Sep 7, 2003	45D	Reason for engine trouble, perhaps (2)	Alan Arbesfeld	Shortz
Sun Sep 16, 2001	34A	Cause of a blown engine, maybe (2)	Bill Zais	Shortz
Sat Feb 28, 1998	40A	Request to a waiter who brings the salad	David J. Kahn	Shortz

1 result for NOOIL from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Nov 19, 2006	Diagramless	33D	Salad dressing request	Brendan Emmett Quigley	Shortz

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