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2 results for SOFTA from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jan 26, 2025	72D	Vowel sound in "father"	Rich Proulx	Shortz
Sun May 21, 2017	4D	Vowel sound in "hard" and "start"	Randolph Ross	Shortz

3 results for SOFTA from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Jul 4, 1971	121A	" ... upon so ___ subject as myself"	Sylvia Baumgarten	Weng
Fri Mar 21, 1969	63A	Turkish Muslim student.	Unknown	Weng
Sun Oct 11, 1964	50A	Moslem student.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar

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