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

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   ACE

   22A Big heart?

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   IRE

   19A Wrath

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   ERE

   51D Before

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   LEO

   29A Energetic, strong-willed type, supposedly

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   UNO

   46A Fiat model

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   ACHE

   26A Distress signal

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   NENE

   23A Hawaiian goose

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   LYE

   37A Heavy-duty cleanser

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    WAS

    49A Third word in a limerick

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    HEN

    53D Farm mother

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    RON

    33D California Rep. Dellums

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    PGA

    32D Golfing initials

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    CANOE

    36A Rental craft

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    OTHER

    7D Additional

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    RHEA

    8D Moon of Saturn

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    ETUDE

    38A Liszt piece

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    ONEUP debut

    44D Early Ping-Pong score

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    ORACLE

    7A Fortune teller

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    PEDRO

    43A Spanish playwright Calderon

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    VOTE

    47D Blackball, e.g.

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    PINOT

    43D Wine grape

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    PARSE

    28D Make sentence sense

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    PLEAS

    6D Court motions

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    ARP

    9D "Human Concretion" artist

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    RAPS

    5D Some corporal punishment

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    EASTER

    41D A time to dye?

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    SPCA

    48D Stray home

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    ESTEEM

    12D Treasure

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    HILL

    42A Elevation

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    PUERTO

    54A Start of many Latin American place names

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    PASSE

    30D Like yesterday's news

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    APIA

    45A Western Samoa's capital

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    AFL

    4D Its first pres. was Samuel Gompers

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    SAVOR

    25A Enjoy

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    MOVEON debut

    50A Change the subject, perhaps

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    STREET

    56A Mason assistant

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    GRASP

    27A Perceive

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    SAGETEA

    20A Herbal drink

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    ELEPHANT

    52A Kind of ears

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    UPWARD

    39D Northbound, on most maps

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    CHUMPS debut

    36D Hardly geniuses

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    HELENA

    3D Seat of Lewis and Clark County

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    ARIETTA

    26D Brief solo

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    ESPANOL

    24D Language of 350 million

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    DIANNE

    40D One of the Lennon Sisters

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    HEPCAT debut

    18A Jazz lover's tag

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    COCACOLA

    10D Classic producer

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    GSHARP debut

    1A A flat's equivalent

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    LUCERNE

    55A Glacier Garden city

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    RAINOUT

    35D Stadium disappointment

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    THROES debut

    15A Violent struggles

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    SCARER

    2D Bogeyman

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    PROEM

    30A Introduction

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    BALLPEEN

    16A Metalsmith's tool

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    PANDER

    57A Cater basely

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    TOOTSIEROLL

    21D Snack item named after the inventor's 6-year-old daughter

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    NEVERSAYDIE debut

    17D Persevere

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    ICEFALL debut

    13A Glacial matter

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    LEGALEAGLES debut

    14D Leading court figures

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    PAPERTRAILS debut

    31A Investigators sometimes follow them

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    SUNLOVER

    34D Heliolater

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    VISIONS debut

    47A Dreams of Daniel, e.g.

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    GIBING debut

    1D Taunting

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    LEACHES debut

    11D Percolates, as water

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    RUNSAGAINST debut

    35A Challenges

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    SARGASSOSEA debut

    34A Spawning ground of Atlantic eels

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