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1 result for SPADERS from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Fri Jul 16, 2004	10D	Some earth movers	Craig Kasper	Shortz

4 results for SPADERS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed May 8, 1974	45D	Digging machines	Sara V. Tuckerman	Weng
Mon Aug 1, 1966	31D	Garden workers.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Feb 24, 1957	19A	Disk harrows.	Eugene T. Maleska	Farrar
Sun Mar 15, 1942	142A	Digging machines.	Marie C. French	Farrar

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