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7 results for BEDES from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Aug 15, 1986	49D	Family in a G. Eliot book	Walter Covell	Maleska
Mon Mar 29, 1982	19D	Family in an Eliot novel	Whitten	Maleska
Sun Sep 22, 1974	97D	Adam et al.	Jordan S. Lasher	Weng
Sun Dec 9, 1973	89D	Adam et al.	Keith Blake	Weng
Sat May 5, 1973	27D	Venerable and Adam	Unknown	Weng
Sun Apr 8, 1973	138A	Adam et al.	Ronald Hirschfeld	Weng
Sun Jun 28, 1953	11D	Adam and others.	Marion Moeser	Farrar

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