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12 results for ADOWA from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun May 15, 1983	58A	Ethiopian battle site	Bert Rosenfield	Maleska
Sat Sep 9, 1972	20A	Ethiopian town	Unknown	Weng
Fri Sep 17, 1971	42A	Ethiopian town	Unknown	Weng
Sat Jul 4, 1959	25D	City in Ethiopia.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Nov 19, 1958	58A	Historic Ethiopian town.	Eugene T. Maleska	Farrar
Wed Jan 15, 1958	9D	City of Ethiopia.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Mon Aug 27, 1956	37A	Town in Ethiopia.	Helen Fasulo	Farrar
Thu Jan 27, 1955	26D	City in Ethiopia.	Eugene T. Maleska	Farrar
Fri Feb 8, 1952	51D	Strategic town in Ethiopia.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Nov 2, 1947	70A	City in Abyssinia.	Louise Rabb	Farrar
Sun Jul 25, 1943	82D	Abyssinians defeated Italians here in 1896.	Howard O. Smith	Farrar
Sun May 9, 1943	64A	Ethiopian town.	P. Joseph Lamanna	Farrar

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