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4 results for SKEANS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Dec 18, 1977	13D	Daggers	Jim Page	Maleska
Tue Mar 21, 1972	6D	Old Irish daggers	Unknown	Weng
Sat Jul 29, 1961	50D	Daggers of old Scotland.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Jan 4, 1948	75A	Dirks.	P. J. Lamanna	Farrar

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