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8 results for NASHE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Mar 20, 1987	45A	Shakespeare contemporary	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Thu Feb 23, 1984	6D	W.S. contemporary	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Sun Dec 18, 1977	82D	Elizabethan playwright	Jim Page	Maleska
Sun Sep 21, 1975	77D	English satirist	Bill Hartman	Weng
Sun Nov 18, 1973	147A	English satirist	Eugene T. Maleska	Weng
Sun Oct 31, 1971	1A	English dramatist	Threba Johnson	Weng
Sun Feb 18, 1968	71D	English satirist.	Pamela V-W Wood	Farrar
Sun Jun 23, 1946	49D	Author of Unfortunate Traveler (1567-1601).	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar

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