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6 results for ERSES from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu Jul 9, 1987	33A	Scottish and Irish tongues	Jim Page	Maleska
Sun Mar 25, 1984	108D	Irish Gaelics	Jim Page	Maleska
Thu Dec 31, 1981	9D	Scottish and Irish Gaelic	Robert Katz	Maleska
Sun Dec 16, 1979	127D	Gaels	Michael Priestley	Maleska
Sun Dec 19, 1943	90D	Irishmen.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Sun Jul 25, 1943	122D	Mormyroid fish of the Nile.	Howard O. Smith	Farrar

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