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5 results for BESTOF from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Mar 7, 2021	8D	Start of a compilation heading	Celeste Watts and Jeff Chen	Shortz
Sun May 26, 2019	68D	Greatest hits opener	Ruth Bloomfield Margolin	Shortz
Sun Feb 19, 2017	78D	Theme for an annual city-magazine issue	Bruce Haight	Shortz
Wed Aug 10, 2011	23D	Annual city-magazine theme	Elizabeth C. Gorski	Shortz
Sun Jan 7, 1996	34D	Words in an anthology title	Eric Albert	Shortz

5 results for BESTOF from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Dec 6, 1989	5D	Get the ___ (defeat)	Jim Page	Maleska
Mon Nov 9, 1987	31A	"The ___ Everything," 1959 film	Shirley Soloway	Maleska
Sat Apr 24, 1971	21D	Get the ___ (defeat)	Unknown	Weng
Thu Jul 6, 1967	9D	Make the ___.	Evelyn Benshoof	Farrar
Thu May 2, 1963	46D	Get the ___.	Unknown	Farrar

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