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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 24, 2009 | 29A | Say again | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | 61D | Tunnel effect | Steve Dobis |
| Thursday, June 18, 2009 | 57A | Hollow response | Patrick Blindauer |
| Monday, June 01, 2009 | 51D | Bounce back, as sound | John Farmer |
| Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 66A | Pilot's E | Kelsey Blakley |
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | 35D | Repetitive reply | Matt Ginsberg |
| Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 14D | Come back | Joe DiPietro |
| Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | 48D | It may be heard in a tunnel | Lucas Gaviotis Whitestone |
| Wednesday, July 02, 2008 | 14A | Parrot | Daniel Kantor |
| Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 2D | Second | Byron Walden |
| Monday, March 10, 2008 | 59D | Repeat | Ken Bessette |
| Friday, February 29, 2008 | 48D | Comeback | Patrick Berry |
| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 | 2D | Eerie cave effect | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Saturday, November 10, 2007 | 50D | Be reminiscent of | Dana Motley |
| Saturday, October 06, 2007 | 53A | Be reminiscent of | Brendan Emmett Quigley and David Quarfoot |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 | 41D | Come back | Paula Gamache |
| Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | 1D | Greek nymph who pined away for Narcissus | Bruce Adams |
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 | 2D | Parrot | Harvey Estes |
| Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | 11D | Repeat | Adam G. Perl |
| Monday, August 14, 2006 | 15A | Sound in a cave | Gene Newman |
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 | 57A | Off-the-wall response? | David Sullivan |
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 | 43A | Audio effect | Dave Mackey |
| Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | 18D | It's often tested by shouting "Hello!" | Kevan Choset |
| Friday, June 23, 2006 | 10D | Narcissus spurned her | Bruce Venzke and Stella Daily |
| Monday, April 03, 2006 | 18D | Rebounding sound | Lynn Lempel |
| Wednesday, March 29, 2006 | 60D | Water well feature | Frances Hansen (1919-2004) |
| Wednesday, February 15, 2006 | 48D | Say the same thing as | Byron Walden |
| Sunday, May 29, 2005 | 35D | Returning waves, of sorts | Frank Longo |
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 | 7D | Do likewise | A. J. Santora |
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 | 1A | Repeat | Joe DiPietro |
| Wednesday, April 06, 2005 | 40D | Back talk? | Michael Doran |
| Monday, February 14, 2005 | 2D | Sound in a long hallway | Janet R. Bender |
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 | 2D | Cavern feature | Stanley Newman |
| Thursday, January 13, 2005 | 17D | She loved Narcissus | Robert Zimmerman |
| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 | 27A | Repeat performance? | Sarah Keller |
| Tuesday, December 21, 2004 | 58A | Bounce back | Kurt Mengel |
| Monday, November 08, 2004 | 15A | Canyon sound | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| Thursday, September 16, 2004 | 55D | Lover of Narcissus | Paula Gamache |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2004 | 2D | It might be off the wall | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| Sunday, September 12, 2004 | 10D | Repeat | Patrick Berry |
| Thursday, September 09, 2004 | 16A | Parrot | Peter Abide |
| Monday, July 12, 2004 | 36A | Sound in a cave | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 | 27D | Parrot | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Thursday, April 15, 2004 | 15A | Repeat after me? | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, April 05, 2004 | 26D | Sound in a big, empty room | Jim Hyres |
| Monday, March 22, 2004 | 7D | Canyon effect | Kyle Mahowald |
| Monday, February 23, 2004 | 1D | Talk back? | Anne Garellick |
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | 53D | Bounce back | Seth A. Abel |
| Monday, February 02, 2004 | 14A | "Can you hear me? ... hear me? ... hear me?" | Gregory E. Paul |
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003 | 16A | Studio effect | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | 2D | Repeat performance? | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, August 24, 2003 | 111A | Sound effect | Patrick Berry |
| Monday, May 26, 2003 | 12D | Canyon sound | Lynn Lempel |
| Monday, February 24, 2003 | 17A | Bounce back | Gregory E. Paul |
| Wednesday, February 19, 2003 | 58A | Chamber phenomenon | Sarah Keller |
| Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | 61D | Bounceback | John Underwood |
| Monday, December 02, 2002 | 42A | Sound heard in a cave | Gregory E. Paul |
| Saturday, September 21, 2002 | 37A | Return from the hills | Rich Norris |
| Thursday, September 12, 2002 | 16A | Lingering trace | Peter Abide |
| Sunday, July 07, 2002 | 26A | Sound rebound | Lloyd E. Pollet |
| Thursday, July 04, 2002 | 14A | 1960 satellite launch | Nathaniel Weiss |
| Thursday, June 20, 2002 | 51D | Say again | Steve Jones |
| Wednesday, June 12, 2002 | 14A | Sound return | Nancy Salomon and Bill Zais |
| Thursday, May 02, 2002 | 11D | Off-the-wall reply | Dave and Diane Epperson |
| Saturday, April 20, 2002 | 5A | Ring | Dana Motley |
| Friday, March 29, 2002 | 58D | Say again | Kevin Hagen |
| Sunday, March 17, 2002 | 11D | Parrot | David J. Kahn |
| Tuesday, March 12, 2002 | 5D | Reverberate | Sarah Keller |
| Tuesday, December 25, 2001 | 34D | Reverberate | Peter Gordon |
| Monday, November 19, 2001 | 26A | Canyon sound | Peter Gordon |
| Tuesday, October 30, 2001 | 68A | Sonar comeback | Barbara Olson |
| Tuesday, August 07, 2001 | 15A | Bat's navigation aid | Mark P. Sherwood |
| Sunday, March 25, 2001 | 81D | It's been said before | Trip Payne |
| Saturday, February 10, 2001 | 52A | Send back | Rich Norris |
| Monday, January 15, 2001 | 34D | Canyon sound | Janet R. Bender |
| Monday, January 08, 2001 | 55D | Reverberate | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, January 04, 2001 | 46D | She loved Narcissus | Nancy S. Ross |
| Tuesday, October 17, 2000 | 53D | Comeback | Peter Gordon |
| Thursday, September 28, 2000 | 58D | Backtalk? | Frances Hansen |
| Thursday, September 14, 2000 | 28D | Repeat | Joe DiPietro |
| Wednesday, August 23, 2000 | 22D | Go off the wall? | William A. Ballard |
| Saturday, August 19, 2000 | 25D | Bounce back, in a way | Charles E. Gersch |
| Saturday, July 29, 2000 | 56A | Sonar principle | Rich Norris |
| Sunday, June 25, 2000 | 36D | Unoriginal reply | Cathy Millhauser |
| Wednesday, June 21, 2000 | 55D | Sonar's principle | Greg Staples |
| Thursday, June 01, 2000 | 61A | Comeback, of sorts | David J. Kahn |
| Sunday, March 19, 2000 | 11D | Parrot | Greg Staples |
| Tuesday, November 23, 1999 | 16A | Canyon comeback | Nancy Salomon |
| Wednesday, November 10, 1999 | 66A | "Art is a delayed ___": Santayana | Joan Yanofsky |
| Tuesday, September 07, 1999 | 54D | Canyon sound | David Ainslie Macleod |
| Sunday, August 29, 1999 | 71D | Come back | Lou and Fran Sabin |
| Thursday, August 19, 1999 | 42A | Sound in an empty room | Cathy Millhauser |
| Sunday, April 18, 1999 | 85D | Sympathetic response | Frank Longo |
| Wednesday, February 24, 1999 | 29D | Feature of an empty house | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| Thursday, January 21, 1999 | 46D | Second time around? | Randolph Ross |
| Wednesday, December 30, 1998 | 16A | Say again | Manny Nosowsky |
| Tuesday, December 01, 1998 | 56A | Hollow response | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| Monday, November 09, 1998 | 6A | Canyon reply | Peter Gordon |
| Friday, September 04, 1998 | 26A | "Me too" response | Hugh Davis |
| Tuesday, September 01, 1998 | 42A | She loved Narcissus | Gene Newman |
| Tuesday, August 18, 1998 | 49D | Kind of chamber | Nancy Salomon |
| Wednesday, August 05, 1998 | 16A | Quick reply, say | Patrick Jordan |
| Friday, April 24, 1998 | 38A | Second | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Tuesday, March 31, 1998 | 38D | Return to the Alps? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Sunday, March 08, 1998 | 76A | Audio effect | Richard Silvestri |
| Wednesday, January 21, 1998 | 32D | Reiterate | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Sunday, December 14, 1997 | 7D | Parrot | Nancy Salomon |
| Tuesday, December 09, 1997 | 54D | Hollow reply? | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| Monday, November 10, 1997 | 45A | Feedback of a sort | Grace Fabbroni |
| Wednesday, October 22, 1997 | 34D | Audio problem | John D. Leavy |
| Sunday, October 12, 1997 | 110D | Sonar signal | Nancy Salomon |
| Monday, September 29, 1997 | 70A | Canyon effect | Randy Sowell |
| Saturday, August 16, 1997 | 60A | Lingering effect | Matt Gaffney |
| Tuesday, August 05, 1997 | 65A | Reverberation | William Bernhardt |
| Friday, July 18, 1997 | 38D | Kind of chamber | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Monday, July 14, 1997 | 27D | 22-Down reply | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| Thursday, May 15, 1997 | 35D | Canyon feature | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| Saturday, May 10, 1997 | 22A | Rebound | Isabel Walcott |
| Sunday, April 20, 1997 | 3D | Effect in the recording studio | Charles M. Deber |
| Monday, February 24, 1997 | 21D | Classical nymph who spoke only by repetition | Derek Allen |
| Monday, January 20, 1997 | 35D | Reverberate | S. Spadaccini |
| Tuesday, September 24, 1996 | 54D | Reverberate | S. Spadaccini |
| Monday, September 23, 1996 | 2D | Canyon feature | S. L. Robbins |
| Wednesday, September 18, 1996 | 39D | Send back | D. J. Kahn |
| Wednesday, September 11, 1996 | 25D | Comeback | B. E. Quigley |
| Sunday, August 04, 1996 | 60A | Snappy comeback? | D. Tuller |
| Wednesday, July 17, 1996 | 2D | Repeat exactly | M. Nosowsky |
| Tuesday, May 14, 1996 | 29D | Chamber sound | G. E. Paul |
| Monday, April 22, 1996 | 56D | Reverberate | S. B. Whitten |
| Thursday, April 04, 1996 | 50A | Back talk? | M. Diehl |
| Sunday, March 31, 1996 | 14D | Early satellite | J. Savage |
| Monday, January 01, 1996 | 42A | Audio feedback problem | A. Klaus |
| Sunday, December 31, 1995 | 37D | Bounce back | Bob Klahn |
| Sunday, December 03, 1995 | 118A | Second coming? | Martin Schneider |
| Wednesday, October 25, 1995 | 54D | Piner for Narcissus | Larry Nargi |
| Thursday, September 07, 1995 | 58D | Canyon sound | Rich Norris |
| Saturday, July 22, 1995 | 49D | Parrot | Richard Thomas |
| Wednesday, April 12, 1995 | 7D | Mimic | Rich Norris |
| Monday, April 10, 1995 | 26D | Reverberate | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Tuesday, March 21, 1995 | 33A | Lover of Narcissus | Harvey Estes |
| Monday, November 28, 1994 | 23A | Canyon effect | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| Sunday, November 20, 1994 | 117A | Milton's "sweetest nymph" | Matt Gaffney |
| Monday, October 24, 1994 | 7D | Bounce back | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Wednesday, October 19, 1994 | 53D | Canyon phenomenon | D.J. Listort |
| Wednesday, October 05, 1994 | 2D | She loved Narcissus | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| Thursday, August 04, 1994 | 46A | Radar reception | Jim Page |
| Tuesday, July 05, 1994 | 26D | Canyon sound | Raymond Hamel |
| Sunday, July 03, 1994 | 107D | Come back | A.J. Santora |
| Sunday, June 26, 1994 | 82D | Sonar blip | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Wednesday, April 27, 1994 | 29D | Cavern phenomenon | Rich Norris |
| Saturday, April 09, 1994 | 35A | Mimic | Randolph Ross |
| Thursday, January 20, 1994 | 56D | Mimic | Lois Sidway |
| Tuesday, January 04, 1994 | 2D | Radar blip | David A. Rosen |
| Monday, December 13, 1993 | 1A | Canyon sound | Thomas W. Schier |
| Sunday, November 28, 1993 | 45A | HELLO!... Hello!... hello ... | Joanne W. Edwards |
| Wednesday, November 24, 1993 | 53D | Quick comeback? | Nancy S. Ross |