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6 results for RASURE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Thu Feb 27, 1992	35A	Effacement	Jeff Herrington	Maleska
Sat Apr 9, 1988	12A	Obliteration	Eileen Lexau	Maleska
Thu Mar 3, 1988	46D	Obliteration	Rhonda Kraus	Maleska
Sun Dec 19, 1971	29D	Obliteration	Anne Fox	Weng
Tue May 20, 1952	33A	Act of scraping.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Apr 25, 1948	25A	Effacement.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar

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