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18 results for AINUS from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Aug 9, 1987	58D	Japanese aborigines	T. W. Underhill	Maleska
Sun Oct 17, 1982	25A	Indigenous Japanese	Bert H. Kruse	Maleska
Tue Dec 12, 1978	51A	Japanese primitives	Herb L. Risteen	Maleska
Sat Jun 7, 1975	27D	Aborigines of Japan	Manny Miller	Weng
Thu Oct 25, 1973	50D	Japanese aborigines	Unknown	Weng
Wed Jan 26, 1972	50A	Japanese natives	Unknown	Weng
Thu Sep 25, 1969	27A	Early Japanese.	Unknown	Weng
Fri Jan 5, 1968	55D	Early Japanese.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Dec 22, 1963	59A	Some Japanese.	Brice Metcalfe	Farrar
Tue Mar 26, 1963	49D	Primitive people of Japan.	Helen Fasulo	Farrar
Wed Mar 7, 1956	39A	Japanese aborigines.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Sat Feb 25, 1956	36A	Aborigines of Hokkaido.	W. E. Jones	Farrar
Tue May 11, 1954	27D	Early Japanese.	Dorothy Smith	Farrar
Tue Apr 7, 1953	27A	Aborigines of Japan.	Jack Luzzatto	Farrar
Sun Dec 12, 1948	80A	Indigenous race of Japan.	Harold P. Furth	Farrar
Sun Feb 25, 1945	41D	Indigenous race of Japan.	Alberta N. Burton	Farrar
Sun Oct 18, 1942	103A	Native Japs.	Willard N. Jordan	Farrar
Sun Apr 5, 1942	41A	Primitive Japanese.	J. C. Doesburg	Farrar

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