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Wednesday · 76 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    ERA

    21D Pitching stat.

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    791
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    END

    50A Lineman

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    447
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    NET

    48D Bottom line

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    377
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    ASIA

    2D The East

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    350
  5. 5
    ANTI

    64A Naysaying

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    364
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    ETAL

    68A Substitute for the unnamed

    32
    327
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    AND

    31A Not to mention

    30
    239
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    APE

    42A Pithecanthropus relative

    28
    415
  9. 9
    AAA

    24A Motorists' org.

    20
    230
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    EMMA

    15A Thompson of "Sense and Sensibility"

    19
    173
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    NED

    45A Composer Rorem

    18
    233
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    MERE

    23A Parisian parent

    18
    155
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    HOT

    40D Tap word

    18
    134
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    ALES

    11D Pub quaffs

    17
    240
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    ASTI

    25A Piedmont wine center

    17
    224
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    RAIN

    18A Farmer's prayer, perhaps

    16
    139
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    IRATE

    52D Breathing fire

    14
    194
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    NONO

    54D Talking during a film, e.g.

    13
    116
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    OMAR

    7D Five-star Bradley

    12
    252
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    AMIE

    8D Gallic girlfriend

    12
    170
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    ISLAM

    14A Belief of 1.1 billion

    12
    94
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    ERMA

    57D Humorist Bombeck

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    147
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    PALS

    13D Comrades

    11
    62
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    ELIA

    16A "Essays of ___," 1823

    10
    213
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    NERD

    61A Overly bookish sort

    10
    159
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    RILE

    12D Nettle

    10
    130
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    LOAF

    6A Vegetate

    10
    60
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    SAME

    65A Just the ___

    9
    107
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    NIECE

    32D Agnes, to Cecil B.

    9
    104
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    LIU

    37A "Turandot" slave

    8
    79
  31. 31
    MEAT

    56D Crux

    7
    123
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    SER

    63D Homily: Abbr.

    7
    100
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    GALE

    59D Severe blow

    6
    67
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    PLOD

    3D Trudge

    6
    46
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    ALTER

    31D Modify

    5
    86
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    NELL

    19A 1994 Jodie Foster film

    4
    78
  37. 37
    PREY

    49A Fish, to herons

    4
    70
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    MOST

    67A 50+ percent

    4
    54
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    EATIT

    50D Suffer a humiliating loss, in slang

    4
    41
  40. 40
    VIOLA

    17A It's tucked under the chin

    4
    41
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    INTERN

    46A On-the-job learner

    4
    37
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    FOOD

    43A Fare

    4
    32
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    INGE

    36A 1953 Pulitzer playwright

    3
    124
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    EXAM

    53D Course finale

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    116
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    GENOA

    10D Setting for Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra"

    3
    50
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    ARDENT

    28A Passionate

    3
    29
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    GUTS

    55D Fortitude

    3
    18
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    LIV

    1D Year Claudius died

    2
    47
  49. 49
    EELER

    69A Certain fisherman

    2
    39
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    NULL

    58D Nonexistent

    2
    38
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    DIODE

    29D Electron tube

    2
    35
  52. 52
    AQUAS

    62A Pharmacy solutions

    2
    20
  53. 53
    ENC

    30D Abbr. at the bottom of a letter

    1
    74
  54. 54
    GARP

    10A Irving protagonist

    1
    34
  55. 55
    LLANO

    34A Grassy plain

    1
    33
  56. 56
    XOUT

    60A Delete

    1
    26
  57. 57
    SPECK

    44A Iota

    1
    20
  58. 58
    TAXED

    27D Burdened

    1
    19
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    TULLE

    66A Prom dress material

    1
    18
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    SMAZE debut

    5D Urban air pollution

    1
    12
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    RONDEL

    47D Short poem on two rhymes

    1
    6
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    SLOPE

    26D Incline

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    46
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    OEIL

    51A Monique's eye

    0
    20
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    LAPPS

    1A Arctic dwellers

    0
    13
  65. 65
    LERNER

    6D "Gigi" lyricist

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    10
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    PALOMINO

    4D Popular parade horse

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    9
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    ALBAN

    25D Berg of "Lulu" fame

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    7
  68. 68
    DUSKY debut

    33D Somewhat dark

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    4
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    FANDANGO debut

    9D Spanish dance

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    4
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    OFFING

    35D In the ___ (likely to happen)

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    4
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    APPLIQUE debut

    41D Sewn-on cutout design

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    3
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    BOXOFCHOCOLATES debut

    38A Valentine present?

    0
    3
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    ENGAGEMENTRING debut

    53A Valentine present!

    0
    2
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    RATELS

    22D Honey badgers

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    2
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    ADOZENREDROSES debut

    20A Valentine present?

    0
    1
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    CONDENSE debut

    39D Abridge

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    1