| Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
| Tue, Sep 10, 2024 | 41A | "Get your paws off me!" | Daniel Bodily | Fagliano |
| Thu, May 23, 2024 | 31A | Release | Adam Wagner | Fagliano |
| Sun, Jul 30, 2023 | 28A | "Hands off!" | John Kugelman | Shortz |
| Sun, Nov 06, 2022 | 47D | "Hey, I had it first!" | Michael Lieberman | Shortz |
| Fri, Aug 05, 2022 | 19A | Free | Erik Agard and Brooke Husic | Shortz |
| Sun, Jul 03, 2022 | 60A | Emotionally disinvest oneself | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
| Fri, Nov 26, 2021 | 52A | Release | Kate Hawkins | Shortz |
| Tue, Jul 07, 2020 | 23A | Canned | Kevin Patterson | Shortz |
| Mon, Nov 27, 2017 | 32A | Release | Kevin Christian | Shortz |
| Wed, Oct 11, 2017 | 51D | Set loose | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
| Tue, Apr 05, 2016 | 30A | Release | Dan Schoenholz | Shortz |
| Fri, Oct 09, 2015 | 17A | "Hands off!" | David Steinberg | Shortz |
| Sat, Jun 28, 2014 | 37A | Ax | Josh Knapp | Shortz |
| Thu, Nov 14, 2013 | 62A | "Gimme it!" | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
| Mon, Jul 16, 2012 | 48A | Release one's grip | Randall J. Hartman | Shortz |
| Fri, Mar 02, 2012 | 52D | Can | Scott Atkinson | Shortz |
| Tue, Nov 09, 2010 | 25D | "Unhand me!" | Daniel A. Finan | Shortz |
| Mon, Sep 08, 2008 | 32D | "Unhand me!" | Oliver Hill | Shortz |
| Thu, Apr 26, 2007 | 22D | Free | Mike Nothnagel | Shortz |
| Tue, Mar 27, 2007 | 42D | Set free | Lucy Gardner Anderson | Shortz |
| Sat, Sep 09, 2006 | 59A | Unhand | Bob Klahn | Shortz |
| Thu, Jul 20, 2006 | 42A | Fire | Kevin McCann | Shortz |
| Thu, May 18, 2006 | 50A | Release | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
| Sat, Dec 24, 2005 | 62A | Can | Byron Walden | Shortz |
| Thu, Dec 22, 2005 | 9D | "Unhand me!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
| Sun, May 09, 2004 | 82A | Release | Charles M. Deber | Shortz |
| Sat, Nov 22, 2003 | 40D | Axed | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
| Thu, Sep 19, 2002 | 32D | Free | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
| Mon, Dec 24, 2001 | 43A | Dismiss | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg | Shortz |
| Tue, Nov 27, 2001 | 19A | Dismissed | Ed Early | Shortz |
| Thu, Jan 25, 2001 | 43A | Ax | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
| Mon, Dec 11, 2000 | 67A | Release | Myles Callum | Shortz |
| Sun, Aug 29, 1999 | 84D | Free | Lou and Fran Sabin | Shortz |
| Tue, Jul 20, 1999 | 1A | "Unhand me!" | Joy L. Wouk | Shortz |
| Fri, Jun 11, 1999 | 27A | Can | Jim Page | Shortz |
| Thu, Apr 15, 1999 | 38D | "Unhand me!" | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
| Sun, Jul 05, 1998 | 94D | Discharge | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
| Tue, May 05, 1998 | 53D | Loosen one's hold | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
| Mon, Mar 24, 1997 | 43A | Stop holding | Thomas W. Schier | Shortz |
| Mon, Mar 17, 1997 | 21D | "Take your hands off me!" | Stephanie Spadaccini | Shortz |
| Thu, Mar 16, 1995 | 8A | Release | A.J. Santora | Shortz |
| Tue, Nov 01, 1994 | 48A | Liberate | Christopher Page | Shortz |