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40 total results for THOREAU( score: 50 )
12 results for THOREAU from Modern Era puzzles:
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sat Feb 25, 2023 | 12D | Who wrote "Our life is frittered away by detail … Simplify, simplify" | Trent H. Evans | Shortz |
Fri Aug 19, 2022 | 49A | He wrote "All good things are wild and free" | Patrick John Duggan | Shortz |
Tue Jun 28, 2022 | 35D | Transcendentalist who wrote "Walden" | Scott Graham | Shortz |
Fri Jan 24, 2020 | 21D | "Civil Disobedience" essayist, 1849 | Scott Earl | Shortz |
Mon Oct 7, 2019 | 22A | Philosopher who wrote "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty" | Keiran King | Shortz |
Sat Dec 23, 2017 | 15A | He wrote "In wildness is the preservation of the world" | Matthew Sewell | Shortz |
Sun Sep 25, 2016 | 2D | "Walden" writer | Jim Holland and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Sun Aug 25, 2013 | 20D | He wrote "It is life near the bone where it is sweetest" | Victor Barocas | Shortz |
Wed Sep 30, 2009 | 55A | See 70-Across | Kevin G. Der | Shortz |
Sun Nov 26, 2006 | 95D | "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear" penner | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Sat Nov 9, 1996 | 12D | Noted transcendentalist | F. Longo | Shortz |
Wed May 18, 1994 | 12A | Walden Pond habitue | Daniel R. Stark | Shortz |
4 results for THOREAU from Variety puzzles:
Date | Type | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Dec 15, 2019 | Panda | 37D | Au__ __ __ __, __ss__yist and nat__ralist | Daniel Raymon | Shortz |
Sep 2, 2018 | Acrostic | S | Disobedient civilian of 1846 | Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon | Shortz |
Sep 3, 2006 | Acrostic | Q | Writer once employed in the family pencil factory | Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon | Shortz |
Jun 22, 2003 | Cryptic | 19A | Essayist and poet are rudely interrupting you (7) | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
24 results for THOREAU from pre-Shortz puzzles:
Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Sat Feb 12, 1983 | 16A | Writer who was fond of a pond | Brink | Maleska |
Sat Oct 11, 1980 | 10D | "Walden" author | William Lutwiniak | Maleska |
Sun Apr 25, 1976 | 18A | "Walden" writer | Eugene T. Maleska | Weng |
Sun Aug 10, 1975 | 127A | Author | Maura B. Jacobson | Weng |
Sun Feb 10, 1974 | 34A | Pond dweller | Jean J. Davison | Weng |
Sat Oct 16, 1971 | 41D | Walden visitor | Unknown | Weng |
Thu Mar 12, 1970 | 2D | Noted New Englander | Unknown | Weng |
Sat Dec 3, 1966 | 9D | Emerson's friend. | Unknown | Farrar |
Tue Jul 20, 1965 | 2D | Concord celebrity. | Unknown | Farrar |
Thu Oct 8, 1964 | 9D | Sage of Walden Pond. | Unknown | Farrar |
Fri Jan 26, 1962 | 14A | Famous naturalist. | Jay Sheldon | Farrar |
Wed Jul 19, 1961 | 16A | 19th cen. naturalist and author. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sat Jul 23, 1960 | 14A | Contemporary of Emerson. | Unknown | Farrar |
Sun Nov 15, 1959 | 7A | 19th cen. social critic. | Jack Luzzatto | Farrar |
Sun Oct 11, 1959 | 96D | His motto was "simplify." | Harold T. Bers | Farrar |
Mon Feb 2, 1959 | 34D | Massachusetts immortal. | Herbert Lyle | Farrar |
Sun Apr 7, 1957 | 20A | Friend of Emerson. | Arthur Schulman | Farrar |
Sat Mar 23, 1957 | 23D | Popular social critic of 19th cen. | S. A. Kay | Farrar |
Sun Apr 25, 1954 | 44D | He said, "Simplify, simplify." | Israel Gitter | Farrar |
Tue Feb 10, 1953 | 2D | Harvard man who built a cottage for $28.12½. | Thomas Meekin | Farrar |
Mon Dec 22, 1952 | 37D | Famous naturalist. | Unknown | Farrar |
Fri Dec 19, 1952 | 25D | He said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | Unknown | Farrar |
Sun Mar 2, 1952 | 66A | Philosopher of Walden Pond. | Louis Baron | Farrar |
Mon Sep 25, 1950 | 1D | Famous eccentric naturalist. | Unknown | Farrar |