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6 results for LARUM from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Tue Mar 1, 1988	32D	Alarm, old style	Mary M. Murdoch	Maleska
Sun Sep 23, 1984	55D	Alarm	Bette Sue Cohen	Maleska
Thu Aug 1, 1968	6D	Danger signal.	Unknown	Farrar
Fri Jul 7, 1967	49D	Old-fashioned tocsin.	Louis Sabin	Farrar
Thu May 24, 1962	44A	Warning, old style.	Joseph Crowell	Farrar
Sun Mar 7, 1943	46D	Alarm: poet.	P. Joseph Lamanna	Farrar

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