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

1. AnswerLast 3 yearsAll time
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   ORAL

   10D Kind of history

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   EMU

   50D Tall runner

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   OER

   6D Anthem contraction

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   RAY

   42A Kind of gun

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   AYE

   46A Word often accompanying 54-Across

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   PIER

   5D Marina sight

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   LOIN

   45A Beef buy

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   VANE

   43A Arrow site

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    SPENT

    44A All gone

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    SKIES

    41A Meteorologists' study

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    LAH

    51D "Well, ___-di-dah!"

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    LETBE debut

    45D Not bother

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    PAESE

    29D Bel ___

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    HEWED

    23A Cut

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    19
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    NEALE

    48A Writer Zora ___ Hurston

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    YODEL

    20A Mountain air

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    SCREAM

    33A Laugh riot

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    PDT

    11D LAX clock setting

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    SKEET

    30D Activity that can wreck a hard disk

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    BORNE

    24D Carried

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    SACRE

    44D Start of an oath

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    CRAYOLA

    34D Classic Binney & Smith trademark

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    CROATIA

    37D Modern-day locale of ancient Dalmatia

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    COILS

    27D Winds

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    SOREST

    30A Most angry

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    BILE

    24A Digestion aid

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    38
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    DIDNT

    26A "___ We" (1969 Richard Harris song)

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    ETOILES

    13D L'Opéra performers

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    RENEWAL

    35D Playboy's request

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    SALUTES

    54A General reception?

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    SYNERGY

    39D Hoped-for result of a merger

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    10
33. 32
    TAILEND debut

    38D Rear

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34. 33
    SPRATS debut

    41D Duo of a children's rhyme

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    7
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    DROPLET debut

    8A Bit of moisture

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    DOGGONE debut

    3D Darn

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    ONOR

    22A "___ off?"

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    CTN

    25A UPS delivery: Abbr.

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    AREST

    40A "Give it ___!"

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    SODAPOP

    1A Taste test subject

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    DFLAT

    26D Key of Prokofiev's first piano concerto

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    ASHER

    4D Son of Jacob

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    COZEN

    27A Deceive

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    NEBR

    48D 1867 admission to the Union: Abbr.

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    HIRAM

    23D Grant name

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    RICED

    9D Made grain-sized

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    AIRDATE debut

    16A TV Guide information

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    ALANARKIN

    31A Tony winner for "Enter Laughing," 1963

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    LEGER

    19A Frenchman noted for his machine art

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    ORIENTE

    2D Region of Cuba or Ecuador

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    TENCENT

    14D Like old paperback novels

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    PARTV debut

    47A Fifth in a series of connected works

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    SAVALAS

    33D Emmy winner for a 1970's police drama

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    CIC

    21A Air Force One passenger: Abbr.

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    6
55. 54
    PROT debut

    47D Bapt. or Meth.

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56. 55
    ALAMORT debut

    52A Quite ill, in Lille

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    LOWERCASELETTER debut

    49A x, y or z

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    PREYEDON

    7D Victimized

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    REELECTS debut

    36A Returns to a seat

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    SCHLOCK debut

    1D Junk

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    REINVENT

    32D Be original, but not first

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    THREADY

    55A Lacking fullness, as a voice

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    CROSIER debut

    15A Staff resembling a shepherd's crook

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    1
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    DAUDET debut

    8D French writer Alphonse or Léon

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    1
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    DOWNMARKETS debut

    18D Where bears fare well

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    HIGHEREDUCATION debut

    17A Temple offering

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    1
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    KEEPFROM debut

    28A Not let have

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    LAICIZE debut

    12D Remove the clerical nature of

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    NABBING debut

    53A Picking up

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