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1 result for NEEDIEST from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu Jan 30, 2003	23A	Poorest	Alan Arbesfeld	Shortz

12 results for NEEDIEST from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Mar 28, 1988	9D	Most indigent	Nancy McCarthy	Maleska
Thu Jan 1, 1987	42D	Most penurious	Joy L. Wouk	Maleska
Thu Oct 4, 1984	36D	Most destitute	Bernice Gordon	Maleska
Fri Aug 17, 1962	41A	Subject of a Christmas appeal.	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Jul 20, 1961	38D	Designating some of the have-nots.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed May 17, 1961	34D	"The Hundred ___ Cases."	Unknown	Farrar
Thu Oct 10, 1957	11D	The Hundred ___ Cases.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Aug 3, 1956	53A	The Hundred ___ Cases.	Unknown	Farrar
Mon Feb 28, 1955	9D	"The Hundred ___ Cases."	Harold T. Bers	Farrar
Mon Feb 1, 1954	38D	"100 ___ Cases."	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Jan 11, 1953	149A	The One Hundred.	Albert Carroll	Farrar
Wed Jan 23, 1952	6D	"Gifts for the ___."	Unknown	Farrar

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