| Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
| Sun, Mar 31, 2024 | 31A | Bad material for a silk purse, proverbially | Spencer Leach | Fagliano |
| Sun, Jun 18, 2023 | 95D | What you can't make a silk purse out of, proverbially | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
| Thu, Feb 28, 2019 | 39D | Unlikely source of a silk purse | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
| Sun, Jan 31, 2016 | 89D | Low-quality material, in a saying | Yaakov Bendavid | Shortz |
| Mon, Jun 03, 2013 | 39A | You can't make a silk purse out of it, they say | John Lampkin | Shortz |
| Sun, Oct 19, 2008 | 89A | It's not a silk purse source, it's said | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |