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5 results for RETRORSE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Jul 9, 1982	37D	Bent backward	Eli Wesoff	Maleska
Mon Apr 27, 1964	11D	Bent downward: Biol.	Unknown	Farrar
Tue Jun 25, 1963	46A	Turned backward.	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Jan 25, 1951	3D	Bent backward.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Nov 1, 1942	66D	Bent backward.	Helen Smathers	Farrar

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