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4 results for ABATEMENT from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Aug 25, 1984	15A	Reduction	Jones	Maleska
Sun May 4, 1952	97D	Depreciation.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar
Fri Feb 9, 1951	29A	Reduction.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar
Sun Feb 26, 1950	100D	Diminution.	S. K. Fliegner	Farrar

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