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1 result for DEADWOOD from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu Jun 14, 2012	3D	Nonessentials	Tracy Gray	Shortz

1 result for DEADWOOD from Variety puzzles:

Date	Type	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sep 2, 2007	Acrostic	N	Extra baggage; unneeded verbiage; discarded cards in poker	Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon	Shortz

3 results for DEADWOOD from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Dec 2, 1975	9D	Useless personnel	Steele	Weng
Wed Aug 12, 1970	4D	Useless things	Unknown	Weng
Sun May 21, 1944	14D	Anything not useful.	Elizabeth Patterson	Farrar

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