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1 result for OSTRACON from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Jul 28, 2002	Acrostic	M	Potsherd used as a ballot, in ancient Greece	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

2 results for OSTRACON from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Sep 26, 1967	9D	Inscribed potsherd of early Palestine.	William Lutwiniak	Farrar
Fri Apr 22, 1966	18A	Athenian ballot, used in banishing Aristides.	Unknown	Farrar

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