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2 results for STARKER from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Aug 22, 1999	97A	Having less shading	Raymond Hamel	Shortz
Fri Jul 2, 1999	55A	Less decorated	Randolph Ross	Shortz

4 results for STARKER from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Mar 18, 1962	116D	More bleak.	Hume Craft	Farrar
Sun Jul 26, 1959	103D	More barren.	E. J. West	Farrar
Tue Dec 21, 1954	69A	Sterner.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Sun May 28, 1944	37A	Harsher.	P. J. Lamanna	Farrar

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