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4 results for PRETERITE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Jul 25, 1960	4D	Expressing past time.	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Jul 8, 1954	58A	In grammar, the past tense.	Martin W. Frey	Farrar
Sun Mar 11, 1951	152A	Past tense.	Ralph Anderson	Farrar
Sun Oct 17, 1943	49D	Past tense.	Harriot T. Cooke	Farrar

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