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3 results for TENTATIVE from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Aug 8, 1999	16D	Not final	Brendan Emmett Quigley	Shortz
Sat Jan 9, 1999	17A	Full of hedges	Harvey Estes	Shortz
Thu Jul 11, 1996	30D	Uncertain	David J. Kahn	Shortz

6 results for TENTATIVE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Mar 24, 1993	53A	Provisional	Jeanette K. Brill	Maleska
Thu Jan 25, 1979	29A	Provisional	William Lutwiniak	Maleska
Wed Jan 25, 1967	21A	Provisional.	Louise Earnest	Farrar
Thu Dec 28, 1961	36D	Provisional.	Unknown	Farrar
Sat Nov 4, 1950	17A	Experimental.	Elizabeth Patterson	Farrar
Sun Jun 14, 1942	46D	Empirical.	Charles Merz and Arthur Hays Sulzberger	Farrar

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