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1 result for MENCKEN from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat May 12, 2018	38A	Who once described puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"	Alex Eylar	Shortz

4 results for MENCKEN from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Jan 13, 1992	45A	"Newspaper Days" author	Ruth Minary	Maleska
Tue Jul 31, 1956	16A	Author of "Minority Report."	Churchill Satterlee	Farrar
Thu Mar 8, 1951	37D	He wrote "The American Language."	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Jan 29, 1951	1A	Founders of the	Unknown	Farrar

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