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7 results for TRAPDOOR from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author
Sun Sep 11, 2022	33A	Prop that enabled Houdini to "walk through" a brick wall	Derrick Niederman
Sun Nov 10, 2019	2D	Opening in the theater, maybe	Peter Gordon
Mon Aug 19, 2013	38D	Hidden exit	Jean O'Conor
Sun Aug 1, 2010	42A	Location for a fall	Brendan Emmett Quigley
Wed Feb 2, 2005	39D	Magician's secret exit	Richard Leva and Nancy Salomon
Tue Feb 10, 2004	38D	Secret exit, perhaps	Seth A. Abel
Mon Jul 7, 1997	43D	Cause of an unexpected fall	Gregory E. Paul

6 results for TRAPDOOR from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jun 24, 1986	5D	Opening on a stage floor	H. Hastings Reddall	Maleska
Mon Jul 23, 1984	41A	Opening on some stages	James R. Burns	Maleska
Thu Jan 18, 1979	44A	Exit of a sort	William Lutwiniak	Maleska
Sun Oct 23, 1977	99A	Floor exit	Frank Nosoff	Maleska
Tue Aug 25, 1964	4D	Egress of a sort.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Jun 24, 1960	8D	Scruto, in theatre parlance.	Unknown	Farrar

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