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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 | 39D | Its flag features an olive branch inside a wreath | Brad Wilber |
| Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 56A | Where Arabic and Tigrinya are spoken | Pete Mitchell |
| Sunday, June 01, 2008 | 66A | Country with a camel on its coat of arms | Patrick Berry |
| Monday, July 09, 2007 | 14A | Neighbor of Sudan | Peter A. Collins |
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 | 15A | Nation born from war in 1993 | Randolph Ross |
| Saturday, August 12, 2006 | 4D | Where Tigrinya is an official language | Patrick Berry |
| Sunday, March 05, 2006 | 1A | Country that won its first Olympic medal in 2004 | Ashish Madhukar Vengsarkar |
| Saturday, February 05, 2005 | 15A | Part of Italian East Africa | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Saturday, September 04, 2004 | 49A | Land on the Red Sea | Patrick Berry |
| Saturday, May 15, 2004 | 54A | Former Italian colony | Byron Walden |
| Saturday, March 06, 2004 | 27A | Italian colony, 1890-1941 | Ed Early |
| Friday, September 26, 2003 | 6D | Land on the Red Sea | Eric Berlin |
| Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | 58A | Breakaway country from Ethiopia | Todd McClary |
| Sunday, January 13, 2002 | 39D | Neighbor of Djibouti | Nelson Hardy |
| Thursday, April 26, 2001 | 65A | Red Sea land | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Friday, April 20, 2001 | 64A | United Nations member since 1993 | Chuck Deodene |
| Sunday, January 07, 2001 | 2D | Asmara is its capital | Manny Nosowsky |
| Saturday, April 03, 1999 | 14D | Republic since 1993 | Pat M. Hugel |
| Saturday, February 15, 1997 | 18A | Asmara is its capital | J. Clonick |
| Saturday, October 05, 1996 | 39D | U.N. member since 1993 | T. Payne |
| Sunday, March 17, 1996 | 32A | Its capital is Asmara | P. O'Gordon |
| Thursday, March 14, 1996 | 25D | Neighbor of Sudan | R. Silvestri |
| Tuesday, January 23, 1996 | 46A | Asmara is its capital | B. Lubbers |
| Tuesday, July 19, 1994 | 22A | African nation since 1993 | Christopher Hurt |