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4 results for VERBAL from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Nov 19, 2006	57A	Spoken	Tony Orbach	Shortz
Sun Oct 5, 2003	49D	S.A.T. section	Richard Silvestri	Shortz
Sun Nov 24, 2002	58D	S.A.T. score component	Nancy Salomon and Lee Glickstein	Shortz
Sun Jan 19, 1997	98A	S.A.T. score	B. Klahn	Shortz

7 results for VERBAL from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sat Oct 9, 1993	38A	Wordy	Hess	Taub
Wed Jul 15, 1992	21A	Spoken	Eugene T. Maleska	Maleska
Tue Jun 2, 1992	47A	Spoken	Wilson McBeath	Maleska
Thu Dec 19, 1974	43D	Expressed in words	Samalin	Weng
Wed Mar 15, 1972	44A	Word for word	Unknown	Weng
Sun May 9, 1948	81A	Word for word.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar
Sun Aug 16, 1942	76A	Spoken.	Jack Luzzato	Farrar

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