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6 results for AINS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat May 1, 1993	33D	Arabic letters	June A. Boggs	Maleska
Sun Mar 11, 1984	48A	Phoenician letters	June A. Boggs	Maleska
Sun Jan 19, 1975	45A	Biblical wells	J. A. Felker	Weng
Wed Jul 29, 1970	3D	Ones, in Aberdeen	Unknown	Weng
Sun Jul 26, 1964	122A	Ones: Scot.	A. J. Santora	Farrar
Sun Apr 2, 1950	31A	Once: Scot.	Leonard Goldberg	Farrar

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