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4 results for ENCODED from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author
Tue Mar 24, 2015	2D	Like many N.S.A. communications	Robyn Weintraub
Sun Oct 2, 2005	89D	Impossible to read	Randolph Ross
Sat May 21, 2005	66A	Secure, as online financial transmissions	Rich Norris
Sun Sep 21, 1997	45D	Prepared for transmission	Mike Shenk

1 result for ENCODED from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author
Jul 5, 2020	Acrostic	H	Hard to extract without a key	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon

3 results for ENCODED from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Jan 31, 1983	40D	Made a cryptogram	Sidney L. Robbins	Maleska
Sun Jun 22, 1975	94A	In cipher	Jack Luzzatto	Weng
Wed Apr 16, 1958	54A	Put into a cipher.	Helen Bernard	Farrar

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