← Fill Atlas

Tuesday · 78 answers · 9 debuts

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

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    ONE

    65D Early afternoon

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    ADO

    46A "Much ___ About Nothing"

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    477
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    ASIA

    5D Home of 3.5 billion

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    350
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    OBOE

    39A Cousin of the English horn

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    EKE

    12D Barely manage, with "out"

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    236
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    TEA

    31A 4:00, in Kent

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    TAN

    30A Give a licking

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    238
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    ORC

    54A Mythical monster

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    ELK

    29D Lodge member

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    ASSET

    57A Balance sheet plus

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    188
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    PEA

    36D Princess tormentor

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    DEE

    13D Gidget portrayer Sandra

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    182
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    EDNA

    73A Ferber of "Show Boat"

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    245
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    ELSA

    1A Literary lioness

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    MAR

    21D Deface

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    MAE

    53D Screen siren West

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    UMA

    22D Actress Thurman

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    175
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    SOD

    48A It thickens the plot

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    180
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    LAP

    35A Dog's drink, or resting spot

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    152
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    ORSO

    43A Approximately

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    145
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    ETTU

    62D "___, Brute!"

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    191
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    RYES

    47A Certain grains

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    116
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    SANE

    15A Rational

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    153
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    TESLA

    60D Physicist Nikola

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    144
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    ALARM

    55A Eye opener

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    104
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    ILK

    50D Type

    11
    107
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    AJAR

    5A Open a crack

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    192
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    AMMO

    52A Rounds, say

    10
    133
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    FREE

    28A For the taking

    10
    107
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    OILS

    67A Takes care of the squeaky wheel

    10
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    ELLEN

    59D "Sea of Love" star Barkin

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    105
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    EDITS

    1D Blue-pencils

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    101
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    TORSO

    32D Common sculpture

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    74
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    ABHOR

    33D Hate

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    67
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    LEVEE

    19A "Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric)

    9
    63
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    DALI

    14A Painter of limp watches

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    108
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    TAFT

    32A 300-pound President

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    64
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    DENSE

    26D Thickheaded

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    77
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    SLEEP

    3D Result of counting sheep

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    60
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    DOM

    42D Suffix with star or tsar

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    54
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    PEEL

    70A Sunburn woe

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    SEPIA

    23A Old photo

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    74
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    IVES

    10D Singer Burl

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    INKS

    18A Signs

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    PIG debut

    49A Snowball in "Animal Farm"

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    52
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    RILED

    9A Seeing red

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    35
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    AXES

    72A Fires

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    72
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    SKIED

    58D Went down a slope

    4
    26
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    SDS

    25A Radical 60's org.

    3
    118
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    ANKLE

    7D It's just over a foot

    3
    68
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    LUG

    64D Blockhead

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    61
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    ELEA

    66A Zeno's home

    3
    59
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    KNEAD

    40A Work, as dough

    3
    43
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    LATHE

    2D Shop tool

    3
    40
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    RHODA

    44A Valerie Harper series

    3
    38
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    UNITE

    68A Come together

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    100
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    RELAX

    56D "Chill!"

    2
    52
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    LOATH

    64A Reluctant

    2
    30
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    THONG

    37A Bikini alternative

    2
    24
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    DERMA

    24A Skin layer

    2
    17
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    APACHES

    45D Side in many a western

    2
    10
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    EVOKE

    16A Elicit

    1
    40
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    NAVY

    69A Armed Forces option

    1
    36
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    RESORT

    8D Martha's Vineyard, in the summer

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    31
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    GENUS

    71A It's all in the family

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    20
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    JAYS

    63D Noisy birds

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    12
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    RELIANT

    9D Trustful

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    8
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    AIRLIFTED debut

    4D Delivered by a Huey Cobra

    1
    3
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    ITER

    17A Road, for Romulus

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    GALENA

    51D Lead ore

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    HOROSCOPE

    38D Some check it daily

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    5
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    SAGOS debut

    27D Powdered starches

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    4
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    FOODCHAIN debut

    34D Ecological succession

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    3
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    ADAMEVE debut

    41D Early outcasts

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    2
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    LOVESTORY debut

    11D 41-week best seller, 1970-71

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    2
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    HECKLEJECKLE debut

    61A Cartoon magpies

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    1
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    JANDEAN debut

    6D "Surf City" singers, 1963

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    1
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    THELMALOUISE debut

    20A 1991 feminist movie

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