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4 results for POORLAW from Modern Era puzzles:

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Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Oct 30, 2012	45D	Old welfare measure	Alex Vratsanos	Shortz
Sun Apr 19, 2009	11D	Welfare act of old (2)	Will Nediger	Shortz
Wed Mar 21, 2007	29A	Relief measure of Elizabethan times	Ed Early	Shortz
Fri Sep 6, 2002	35D	Welfare act of old (2)	Manny Nosowsky	Shortz

1 result for POORLAW from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jul 30, 1950	110A	Legal provision for paupers.	W. W. Webster	Farrar

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