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2 results for LECTURED from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Feb 1, 1995	4D	Reprimanded	Chet Currier	Shortz
Sun Mar 27, 1994	76D	Rebuked at length	Jeanette K. Brill	Shortz

4 results for LECTURED from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri May 21, 1982	40A	Rebuked	Bert H. Kruse	Maleska
Tue Jun 12, 1979	9D	What Twain and Cable did in 1884	Evelyn Benshoof	Maleska
Tue Feb 23, 1965	39D	Scolded.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Jan 1, 1961	90A	Scolded.	Harold T. Bers	Farrar

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