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8 results for NISUS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu May 5, 1988	25D	Exertion	Walter Covell	Maleska
Sat Jul 25, 1987	18A	Effort or impulse	Barbara J. Weakley	Maleska
Mon Jun 8, 1987	30A	Effort	Sidney L. Robbins	Maleska
Tue Feb 10, 1987	45A	Impulse	Sidney L. Robbins	Maleska
Sun Nov 17, 1946	116D	Euryalus' friend in the Aeneid.	W. J. London	Farrar
Sun Aug 20, 1944	93A	Effort.	Dan Caywood	Farrar
Sun Apr 9, 1944	43A	Friend of Euryalus in Aeneid.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar
Sun Sep 13, 1942	147A	A striving.	Agnes W. Bartlett	Farrar

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