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13 results for STERNEST from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed May 14, 1986	28A	Most demanding	Louis Sabin	Maleska
Thu Feb 14, 1980	9D	Most forbidding	Martha J. DeWitt	Maleska
Fri Dec 24, 1971	37D	Most severe	Unknown	Weng
Sat Jan 17, 1970	65A	Most unrelenting	Unknown	Weng
Sat Dec 29, 1962	38D	Most unrelenting.	A. J. Santora	Farrar
Sun Nov 20, 1960	67D	Least lenient.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Sat Jul 16, 1960	53A	Most uncompromising.	Unknown	Farrar
Sat Feb 21, 1959	58A	Most rigorous.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar
Fri Jan 2, 1959	10D	Most rigorous.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Oct 24, 1954	84D	Most inexorable.	Mel Taub	Farrar
Tue Aug 17, 1954	45A	Most severe.	M. S. Manning	Farrar
Sat May 8, 1954	9D	Harshest.	Cora Goodman	Farrar
Sun Nov 22, 1953	84A	Most severe.	W. E. Jones	Farrar

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