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4 results for EXTRANEOUS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Aug 9, 1992	77A	Not essential	S. E. Booker	Maleska
Tue Feb 5, 1974	53A	Nonessential	Leonard Sussman	Weng
Sun Jan 21, 1973	2D	Unrelated	Bert Beaman	Weng
Sun Mar 11, 1951	98D	Foreign.	Ralph Anderson	Farrar

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