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5 results for IWIS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jun 8, 1980	78D	"There be fools alive, ___ ... ": Shak.	Walter Webb	Maleska
Tue Dec 30, 1975	67A	Certainly, old style	Sara V. Tuckerman	Weng
Sun Sep 29, 1968	101A	Certainly, old style	Arnold Moss	Farrar
Wed Mar 31, 1965	23A	Certainly: Archaic.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Apr 6, 1952	30D	Certainly: Arch.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar

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