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1 result for NANKING from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Jul 1, 1998	44D	City on the Yangtze	Fred Piscop	Shortz

12 results for NANKING from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Dec 9, 1986	42D	City on the Yangtze	Harold B. Counts	Maleska
Thu Jul 9, 1959	5D	City on the Yangtze.	William Spaar, Jr.	Farrar
Sun Jun 14, 1959	15D	City on the Yangtze.	Roberta Morse	Farrar
Fri May 10, 1957	20A	City on the Yangtze River.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon May 19, 1952	25D	City of more than a million on the Yangtze.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Aug 7, 1951	52A	Large city in China.	Unknown	Farrar
Sat Oct 21, 1950	5D	China's southern capital.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Mar 31, 1946	17D	Capital of China.	Louis Baron	Farrar
Sun Jul 15, 1945	63D	China's "Southern Capital."	Elizabeth Patterson	Farrar
Sun Dec 6, 1942	105D	Former Chinese capital.	F. C. Jaschob	Farrar
Sun Oct 25, 1942	56A	One of China's capitals.	Alexis P. Boodberg	Farrar
Sun Aug 23, 1942	103A	Ex-capital of China (1936).	Louis Baron	Farrar

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