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8 results for SLEAVES from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Jan 3, 1981	11D	Separates into filaments	Nancy McCarthy	Maleska
Sat Oct 5, 1974	13A	Separates into threads	Dorothea E. Shipp	Weng
Tue Feb 15, 1972	21D	Separates into threads	Unknown	Weng
Mon Feb 23, 1970	57A	Silk filaments	Unknown	Weng
Sun Jul 7, 1963	49A	Tangles, as of ravelings.	Hume Craft	Farrar
Mon Mar 3, 1952	5D	Divides into threads, as silk.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Apr 30, 1951	15D	Tangled skeins.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Apr 9, 1951	12D	Divides into filaments, as silk.	Unknown	Farrar

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