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

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   ALE

   27D Cream ___

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   ARENA

   1D Fan setting

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   LEND

   22A Advance

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   LEA

   32D "So might I, standing on this pleasant ___": Wordsworth

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   SNO

   41A ___-Caps (Nestlé brand)

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   NIECE

   42D Heiress, perhaps

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   TORTE

   47D Calorie-dense dessert

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   ARIANA

   1A "Jurassic Park" actress Richards

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    STRATA

    45A Geological formations

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    TCELL

    29A Antigen disabler

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    RENTS

    37A Real estate section info

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    SATIN

    41D Substituted

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    ICEWATER

    54A Summer cooler

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    ARON

    44A One of the Trask brothers

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    TALENT

    9D It may be scouted out

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    OSH

    23A Old Silk Road city in Kyrgyzstan

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    NAUSEA

    19A Possible result of pitching

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    INOUT

    3D Words on a double door

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    KERNEL

    57A Heart

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    INAHURRY debut

    16A Rushed

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    ETO

    31D Overlord's area: Abbr.

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    LST

    33D Omaha beach craft: Abbr.

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    CREATE

    40D Found

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    ORFEO

    12D Monteverdi opera

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    SHOED

    10D Did a smith's work

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    OLEATE

    55A Chemical salt

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    OPIATES

    35A Some anodynes

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    KNEEDEEP

    20A Intensely engaged

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    FLANNEL

    34A Winter wear

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    KAN

    28D Part of the 24-Across: Abbr.

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    ASTERN

    21A Back at sea

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    ALCAN

    44D Old highway name

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    ENOUGH

    17A Not too few

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    ATWT

    50D Elementary abbr.

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    TRUES

    13D Brings into line

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    TESTCASE

    52A One may set a precedent

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    ARTEL

    48D Russian cooperative

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    MFR

    26D Producer: Abbr.

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    ALEAN

    46D "... ___ and hungry look": Shak.

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    DREAMBOAT

    38A Heartthrob

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    MIDWEST debut

    24A Breadbasket of sorts, with "the"

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    SYLPH

    14D Supernatural being inhabiting the air

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    TIMETABLE

    29D Reading reading

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    AIRALERT

    49A Sortie signal

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    BAILOR debut

    51A Trusty delivery person?

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    ORSEA debut

    43D By land ___

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    RANTERS

    39D Ones on soapboxes

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    AMUSEMENT

    4D Beer and skittles

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    AXHANDLE

    6D One with a sharp head?

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    ONONESTOES

    8D Alert

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    PASSBOOK debut

    36D It may show appreciation

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    CHASSED

    40A Did a gliding dance step

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    HURD

    11D Western scene painter Peter

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    NEATNESS debut

    56A It may count

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    OBVERT debut

    53A Show a different side of

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    POTSHOTS debut

    7A Digs

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    RONAS debut

    2D Novelist Jaffe and others

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    RONMIX debut

    15A Football Hall-of-Famer called the "Intellectual Assassin"

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    CABDRIVER debut

    30D So-called boulevard cowboy

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    COLORFUL debut

    18A Not at all dull

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    MAKEALIST debut

    26A Catalog

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    NIGERIANS debut

    5D Residents of Yorubaland

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    PICKLES debut

    7D Some spears

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    WILDHORSES debut

    25D Ones not broken

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