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8 results for SESTOS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Mar 12, 1993	53A	Hero lived here	Jesse Roarke	Maleska
Fri Nov 2, 1990	9D	Where Xerxes crossed the Hellespont	Kevin Boyle	Maleska
Wed Sep 2, 1987	9D	Ruined town on the Dardanelles	Harold B. Counts	Maleska
Sun Oct 17, 1976	55D	Town on the Hellespont	Jack Luzzatto	Weng
Sun Oct 10, 1971	72A	Hero-Leander locale	Hume R. Craft	Weng
Sat Oct 27, 1962	10D	Locale of Hero-Leander legend.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Nov 23, 1952	145A	Where Leander swam to Hero.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sun Sep 21, 1947	44A	Scene of Hero and Leander story.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar

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