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

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   49D Starting square

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   ALL

   24A Bold competitor

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   ODES

   10D ___ of Solomon (noncanonical book)

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   ONUS

   22A Obligation

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   SNIT

   46D Pet

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   TEST

   5D Makeup, e.g.

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   HOT

   21A Hard to keep in stock, say

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   INE

   42A Like Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

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    USAGE

    50A Practice

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    START

    54A Skittish move

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    SARAN

    46A Kind of wrap

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    IGUANA

    2D Galápagos Islands shore dweller

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    PARSE

    43D Break down, in a way

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    ARCANA debut

    39D Secrets

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    PYLON

    43A Pilot's guidepost

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    TAINT

    19A Corrupt

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    RUINS

    9D Archaeologist's destination

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    PIVOT

    1A Center's position

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    CDR

    45A Spock, e.g.: Abbr.

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    OREL

    44A Turgenev's birthplace

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    AGAPE

    15A Obviously amazed

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    DUDS

    47D They don't go off

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    NADER

    26D 2000 candidate

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    SAVED

    29A Like some souls

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    DINES

    52A Banquets

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    RAVER

    37A Delirious person, often

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    CAVED

    23D Gave up, slangily

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    PARTON

    1D "Steel Magnolias" co-star

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    EASYDOESIT

    28D "Down, boy!"

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    NAMENAMES

    25A Sing

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    ONIONRING debut

    48A Alternative to a steak fry

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    CLOUDNINE

    16A Heaven

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    VEINY

    36A Like tree leaves

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    BERLE

    27A Roosevelt brain truster Adolf

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    DECAY

    47A Tooth trouble

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    BRIAN

    30D ___ Boru, Irish king who defeated the Norse

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    CAKES

    23A Candle holders?

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    BLADES

    30A Dapper Dans

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    BLAND

    27D Unlikely to excite

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    SLYEST

    41D Least ingenuous

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    SYRIAN

    38D Mideast's ___ Desert

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    ABRADED debut

    31A Worn down

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    BRANDNEW

    32D Just out

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    SWEETENED

    53A Made more attractive

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    ENV

    11D It may have a window: Abbr.

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    OPENSESAME

    4D Access provider

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    ERINS

    20A Actress Gray and others

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    RULES

    17A Game needs

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    YEAGER

    40D 1947 sound-barrier breaker

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    ENROLLEE

    13D Program participant

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    SCHROEDER

    6A "Peanuts" character

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    APRICOTS

    31D They may be in a jam

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    RESTLESS

    14D Pacing, say

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    PRIMED

    35A Ready

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    CLERKED debut

    7D Followed in Cratchit's footsteps

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    DIEHARDS

    12D Irreconcilables

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    SCREAMED

    6D Jumped off the page, maybe

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    VALANCE

    36D Canopy curtain

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    SALADDAYS

    38A Youth

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    TENNISACE debut

    51A Shot past?

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    VALIUM debut

    3D Calmer

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    BRASSES

    34A Orchestra section

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    BELONGED debut

    34D Fit in

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    HOLIES debut

    8D Sacred sites

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    RELIEVERS debut

    18A Massage therapists, e.g.

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    RIVERINE debut

    33D Located along a large stream

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