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4 results for DELENDA from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Jan 3, 1987	18A	Items to be struck out	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Tue Nov 30, 1971	45D	Things to be taken out	Unknown	Weng
Sun Jul 7, 1968	94D	Things to be omitted	Anthony Morse	Farrar
Sat Mar 14, 1959	5D	"___ est Carthago": Cato's dictum.	Eugene T. Maleska	Farrar

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