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5 results for POETESS from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author
Sun Mar 10, 2019	84D	Sappho, e.g.	Adam Fromm
Sun Dec 1, 2013	111A	Anne Bradstreet, for one (2)	Alan DerKazarian
Sun Sep 23, 2012	118A	Any of the Brontë sisters	Matt Ginsberg
Tue Jan 5, 2010	41D	Anne Bradstreet, for one (2)	C. W. Stewart
Sat Jul 15, 1995	14D	Anne Bradstreet, e.g.	Rand H. Burns

1 result for POETESS from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author
Oct 27, 2013	Cryptic	13D	Doctor sees top female writer (7)	Richard Silvestri

15 results for POETESS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue May 8, 1990	6D	Millay, to a sexist	Fred Toole	Maleska
Thu Jun 15, 1989	56A	Outmoded word for Millay	Louis Sabin	Maleska
Fri Jan 16, 1981	13D	Amy Lowell or H.D., formerly	Dorothea E. Shipp	Maleska
Wed Nov 22, 1978	34A	Millay or Plath	Ruth N. Schultz	Maleska
Sat Sep 21, 1974	40A	Millay or Dickinson	Leonard Sussman	Weng
Sun Feb 4, 1973	88A	Lowell or Dickinson	Keith Blake	Weng
Mon Nov 21, 1960	38D	Type of woman writer.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Oct 28, 1955	20A	Sappho, for instance.	Isaac Kert	Farrar
Mon Feb 21, 1955	31A	Louise Townsend Nicholl, for example.	Cora Goodman	Farrar
Tue Feb 23, 1954	14A	Amy Lowell.	Cora Goodman	Farrar
Fri Aug 8, 1952	50A	Marianne Moore, for instance.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Mar 25, 1951	105D	Applicable to Kipling's sister, Beatrice.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sun Jun 11, 1950	139A	Status of Felicia Hemans.	Elizabeth Patterson	Farrar
Sun May 9, 1948	63A	Versificatrix.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar
Sun Apr 5, 1942	105A	Edna St. Vincent Millay.	J. C. Doesburg	Farrar

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