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8 results for PENPALS from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Jun 22, 2024	27D	Trading card enthusiasts?	Hoang-Kim Vu	Fagliano
Sun Nov 29, 2020	10D	Friends you may never have met	Eric Berlin	Shortz
Thu May 18, 2017	46D	Some foreign correspondents	Jacob Stulberg	Shortz
Sun Feb 8, 2009	88A	Foreign correspondents? (2)	Alan Arbesfeld	Shortz
Sun Jul 9, 2006	78A	Writing set?	Patrick Berry	Shortz
Sat Jan 24, 2004	31A	Exotic stamp collectors, maybe	Mark Diehl	Shortz
Fri Dec 4, 1998	31D	Distant friends	John Wolting	Shortz
Sat Apr 26, 1997	40D	Foreign correspondents? (2)	Frank Longo	Shortz

1 result for PENPALS from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Jun 30, 2019	Panda	1A	Cellmates	Daniel Raymon	Shortz

6 results for PENPALS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Jul 30, 1985	38A	Friendly correspondents	Dorothy Smitonick	Maleska
Mon Nov 24, 1980	5D	Correspondents	Carol Dutting	Maleska
Thu May 8, 1969	5D	Writers of a sort.	Unknown	Weng
Sun Mar 27, 1966	43A	Two who correspond.	William A. Lewis, Jr.	Farrar
Sun May 27, 1962	49D	Correspondents.	E. R. Galli	Farrar
Tue Mar 6, 1962	35D	Correspondents.	H. L. Risteen	Farrar

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