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6 results for FABRE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Mar 22, 1986	32D	French entomologist	Patterson Pepple	Maleska
Wed Apr 18, 1973	24D	French entomologist	Unknown	Weng
Sun Mar 27, 1960	55A	Noted French naturalist.	Mary D. Weisser	Farrar
Thu Mar 10, 1955	40D	French entomologist.	Norton Rhoades	Farrar
Sun Mar 30, 1947	11A	French naturalist (1823-1915).	Louis Jenkins	Farrar
Sun May 7, 1944	114A	French authority on insect life (1823-1915).	Louis Shields	Farrar

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