Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-03), then by uses across the whole archive.

1. AnswerLast 3 yearsAll time
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   TEN

   53A "Taps" time

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   TSAR

   38A Opera "The Tale of ___ Saltan"

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   ENE

   14A Osaka-to-Tokyo dir.

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   ORES

   7D They're found in the ground

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   MESS

   48D Mare's-nest

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   EAU

   30A Melted glace

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   FIR

   1A One may be red, white or silver

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   ARMY

   27A Host

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    EDT

    56A It starts in April in D.C.

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    CAPO

    4A Bar placed across a guitar fingerboard

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    ANODES

    54A Electroplating terminals

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    DETESTS

    36D Can't take

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    OCEANIA

    11D About 3.5 million square miles

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    PEPELEPEW debut

    6D Cartoon character who debuted in 1944

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    6
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    RESORT

    45A Cruise destination

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    REPENT

    51A Heed John the Baptist's advice

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    ACCOST

    8A Buttonhole

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    EERIER

    26A More mysterious

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    ADELIE debut

    42A Antarctica's ___ Coast

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    THARP

    38D "Amadeus" choreographer

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    NUTTY

    18D Cracked

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    CHACHA

    16A Mambo's cousin

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    10
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    IDEAMEN debut

    32D Creative types

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    9
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    ACCEDED

    8D Assumed, with "to"

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    7
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    COHEIR debut

    4D Beneficiary's brother, perhaps

    1
    7
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    ENFANT debut

    21A One may be terrible

    1
    7
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    REALISM debut

    3D Style of the Ashcan School

    1
    7
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    CARFARE

    10D Dough to go?

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    6
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    BIGBADWOLF debut

    31A Beastly blower

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    3
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    STEN

    52A "The Girl With the Hatbox" star

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    ODER

    15A Neisse River's outlet

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    SATIATE

    39D Gorge

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    SSSS

    55A Kettle sound

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    AIRLINE

    35D Travel agent's suggestion

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    BATTLE

    47A Kind of plan

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    DIANNE

    23A Oscar winner Wiest

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    AMATIS

    49A Musicians' treasures

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    13
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    ESCAPADE

    50A Almost any Three Stooges movie

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    12
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    INITIAL

    22A Approve, in a way

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    12
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    GESTAPO

    33D Heavy-handed group

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    ADONAIS

    5D Keats, to Shelley

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    9
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    BARBARA

    31D Nancy's successor

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    GALATEA

    46A Statue brought to life, in myth

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    TASTERS

    13D Some test participants

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    AMENDED

    40D Fixed up

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    6
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    REAGENT

    41D Chromatography spray

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    FORSHAME debut

    43A "Tsk!"

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    5
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    STANHOPE debut

    17A Light, one-seated carriage

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    4
50. 49
    INTONER

    2D One who does voice-overs

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    3
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    SEAOF

    25D Words before "Love" on screen and in song

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    SHUNNED debut

    12D Didn't go near

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    3
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    BLOTTED debut

    34D Obscured, with "out"

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    2
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    EULOGISTS debut

    29D Lauders

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    2
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    FESTIVA debut

    1D A Ford

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    SLOANS debut

    44D Popular liniment brand

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    2
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    SPEEDREADS debut

    28A Rips through pages?

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    2
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    TOLUENES debut

    20A Coal tar derivatives

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    2
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    CEREUS debut

    19A Night-blooming cactus

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    1
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    CHENIER debut

    9D Guillotined French poet Andre de ___

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    1
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    FRANCES debut

    37D 1973 Pulitzer winner FitzGerald

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    1
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    MINORING debut

    48A Studying secondarily

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    1
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    VESTRIES debut

    24A Robe rooms

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    1