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1 result for WOODCOCK from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Apr 26, 2009	Acrostic	A	Bird whose courting flight spirals up, then nosedives	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

3 results for WOODCOCK from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Nov 8, 1993	16A	Snipe's kin	Dorothea E. Shipp	Taub
Sat Dec 10, 1977	42A	U.S. game bird	Arthur Schulman	Maleska
Fri Jun 28, 1974	4D	Bird	Maura B. Jacobson	Weng

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