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6 results for MISTAKE from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author
Fri Mar 17, 2023	20A	Learning opportunity, so to speak	Carter Cobb
Mon Jan 21, 2002	55A	Boo-boo	Peter Gordon
Wed Dec 12, 2001	38D	Boner (2)	Peter Gordon
Fri Feb 16, 2001	20D	Foozle	Bob Klahn
Sat Sep 23, 2000	41D	It may be costly	Rich Norris
Tue Oct 18, 1994	28D	Boner (2)	Harvey Estes

1 result for MISTAKE from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author
Oct 1, 2017	Acrostic	G	"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a ____" (Napoleon)	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon

16 results for MISTAKE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Dec 20, 1991	40D	Example of fallibility	William Baxley	Maleska
Mon Feb 15, 1988	5D	Error	Fred Toole	Maleska
Fri Jul 24, 1987	24D	"Man is Nature's sole ___!": Gilbert	Kathryn Righter	Maleska
Fri Apr 18, 1986	5D	Gaffe	William S. McIlrath	Maleska
Tue Jan 7, 1986	17A	Error	Rhonda Kraus	Maleska
Sun Jul 21, 1985	75D	Error	Tap Osborn	Maleska
Thu Apr 5, 1984	40A	Blunder	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Sun Nov 7, 1976	110A	Slipup	Nancy W. Atkinson	Weng
Sat Dec 6, 1975	25D	Eraser's target	Reginald L. Johnson	Weng
Tue Aug 8, 1967	20A	Example of fallibility.	Martha J. DeWitt	Farrar
Wed Apr 22, 1964	39D	Estimate incorrectly.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Feb 20, 1953	20A	2 + 2 = 5, for instance.	Sidney Lambert	Farrar
Thu Nov 27, 1952	37D	A wrong definition, for instance.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Sep 24, 1950	7D	Alice makes one after another in Wonderland.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sun Jan 5, 1947	62D	Jupiter's is corrected: Poe's Gold Bug.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sun Jan 21, 1945	42A	Slip.	L. K. Peters	Farrar

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