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1 result for EXPLODED from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Mar 2, 2015	40D	Went off, as a bomb	Andrea Carla Michaels	Shortz

4 results for EXPLODED from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Mon Jan 26, 1976	20A	Blew up	Martha J. DeWitt	Weng
Mon Feb 12, 1968	10D	Discredited.	Unknown	Farrar
Sun Oct 4, 1959	95A	Backfired.	Thomas Meekin	Farrar
Mon Mar 26, 1956	37D	Detonated.	Unknown	Farrar

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