Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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   OLE

   5D 1946 song "_____ Buttermilk Sky"

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   AIR

   23A Show

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   EELS

   11D Sushi provisions

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   OPEN

   37A Wall-less

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   CIA

   45A Information-gathering grp.

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   SENSE

   6D Intuit

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   IOU

   35D Cash alternative

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   ERGO

   36A Consequently

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10. 9
    CEO

    29A Board member, for short

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11. 10
    DIS

    58D Belittle, slangily

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    TUG

    48A River craft

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13. 12
    GENE

    56D Allele

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    ACRES

    28D "Green _____"

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    AMUSE

    44A Divert

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16. 15
    GOAT

    56A Zodiac symbol

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    70
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    ITE

    26A Social attachment

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    SWAT

    22A Mighty hit

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    ASSAY

    47A Examine

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    68
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    IDE

    46D Chemical suffix

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    SETON

    20A Cause to attack

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22. 21
    TUE debut

    21D Calendar abbr.

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    64
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    TAL

    60D Chess champ Mikhail

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    ESSENCE

    7D Quiddity

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    NITS

    4D Basketball tournaments

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    AGNES

    30A Infamous 1972 hurricane

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    MONTE

    51D Form of faro

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    KON debut

    33D "_____ Tiki"

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    16
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    HPS debut

    52A Car engine stats: Abbr.

    2
    11
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    SOFTENS debut

    17A Relents

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    5
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    CLUB

    53A Whop, in a way

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    BILE

    54D Peevishness

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    DECLARE debut

    18A Articulate

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    15
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    ETOILES debut

    15A Ballet headliners

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    RAPANUI debut

    42D Native name of Easter Island

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    UTOPIAS debut

    2D Avalon and others

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    AMEBA

    50D Single-celled critter

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    ANENT

    9D Regarding

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    CPOS

    19A U.S.N. noncoms

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    INFERNO debut

    16A Paradiso's counterpart

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41. 40
    SFC

    10D Army E-7

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    SYSTEMS

    43D Methodologies

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    EMULATE debut

    39D Use as a model

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    UNRATED

    13D Not in the top whatever

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    SAMPRAS debut

    25D 1993-94 Wimbledon champ

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    EASEDUP debut

    8A Slackened

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    POETESS debut

    14D Anne Bradstreet, e.g.

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    TERESAS

    63A Sancho Panza's wife et al.

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    ASHCAKE debut

    32A Southern corn bread

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    INTERNE

    59A On-the-job trainee

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    PUGNOSE debut

    1A Brat's feature

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    TELESIS debut

    64A Pacific _____ (one of the Baby Bells)

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    EIDOLON

    8D Phantom

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    GREGS

    31D Baseball's Luzinski et al.

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    ETALIBI debut

    61A And elsewhere

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    GOFORTHEJUGULAR debut

    3D Attack directly

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    HALIDES debut

    57A Iodized salt compounds

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    NIMRODS debut

    34A Hunters

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    BAALIST debut

    41D Idolater

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    BURGERS debut

    41A Fast food staple

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    DRAWINONESHORNS debut

    12D Retreat

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    ECDYSIS debut

    40D Molting

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    LATCHET debut

    38D Shoe strap, in olden times

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    LEJEUNE debut

    38A Camp _____, N.C.

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    MYELO debut

    55A Spinal cord: Prefix

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    PENULTS debut

    24A November and Y, e.g.

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    PESCARA debut

    1D Italian port on the Adriatic

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    PLAGUES debut

    24D Beleaguers

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    RATAL debut

    27A Tax determinant, in Britain

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    SADDAMS debut

    49A Noted dictator and namesakes

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    STANNUM debut

    62A Tin

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