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13 results for CEILS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Dec 20, 1987	69D	Does some wallboard work	John M. Samson	Maleska
Fri Jan 4, 1985	26D	Provides an overhead	William Lutwiniak	Maleska
Wed Jan 3, 1979	27D	Tops a room	Martha J. DeWitt	Maleska
Sat May 22, 1976	51D	Designer Chapman et al.	Marjorie Pedersen	Weng
Sun Nov 29, 1970	26A	Plasters over	Gladys V. Miller	Weng
Mon Sep 23, 1968	35A	Overlays with plaster.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Mar 26, 1967	26A	Does a plastering job.	Sidney Lambert	Farrar
Sun Jan 16, 1966	70A	Wainscots.	W. E. Jones	Farrar
Sun May 21, 1961	22D	Plasters a wall.	Roberta H. Morse	Farrar
Sun Mar 27, 1960	46A	Does a plastering job.	Mary D. Weisser	Farrar
Sun May 5, 1957	6D	Does a plastering job.	Sidney Lambert	Farrar
Sun May 23, 1954	62A	Lines the inside.	Eugene T. Maleska	Farrar
Sun Dec 27, 1953	126A	Opposite of floors: Poet.	Herbert Ettenson	Farrar

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