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9 results for SIRFRANCISDRAKE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jan 9, 1990	40A	Noted English navigator	Albert J. Klaus	Maleska
Fri Aug 12, 1983	20A	First English commander to see the Pacific	Margaret W. Huskey	Maleska
Fri Jun 24, 1983	20A	English sea dog	Kevin Wray	Maleska
Sun Sep 28, 1980	59A	Mayor of Plymouth: 1581	Herb L. Risteen	Maleska
Tue Jan 27, 1976	20A	First English globe-girdler	Dorothea E. Shipp	Weng
Sun Mar 24, 1968	24A	Historic seafarer.	Emanuel Berg	Farrar
Sat Jun 27, 1964	20A	Globetrotter, 1580.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Jan 28, 1962	29D	Subject of Noyes poem.	W. E. Jones	Farrar
Sun Jul 25, 1954	1D	Commander of the "Golden Hind."	Jules Arensberg	Farrar

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