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3 results for THIRDRATE from Modern Era puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Sun Feb 10, 2008	1A	Inferior	Bill Zais	Shortz
Thu Sep 8, 2005	52A	Lousy	Ben Tausig	Shortz
Tue Jun 19, 2001	11D	Junky	Tyler Hinman	Shortz

2 results for THIRDRATE from pre-Shortz puzzles:

Date	Grid	Clue	Author	Editor
Wed Dec 18, 1957	20A	Definitely inferior.	Unknown	Farrar
Wed Sep 24, 1952	48A	Worse than mediocre.	Unknown	Farrar

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