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Monday · 78 answers · 3 debuts

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

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    ETA

    34A When a plane is due in: Abbr.

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    EDIT

    15A Do desk work at a newspaper

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    302
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    ENOS

    34D 1940's-50's All-Star ___ Slaughter

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    PAR

    46A Duffer's goal

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    218
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    ATIT

    36D Going ___ tooth and nail

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    ETTA

    63D Kett of old comics

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    254
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    OPAL

    38D Milky gem

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    253
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    ABET

    1A Help in crime

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    228
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    ACES

    42D They're worth 1 or 11 in blackjack

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    211
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    PER

    5D The "p" in m.p.g.

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    270
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    TEES

    73A Golf ball props

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    IOU

    41D Paper in lieu of payment

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    160
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    INRE

    59D Concerning, to a memo writer

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    251
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    INTO

    69A Get ___ shape

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    219
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    TALE

    35D Narrative

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    178
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    COT

    22D Place for a nap

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    ERODE

    55D Eat away at

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    175
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    CON

    67D Jailbird

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    123
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    PEDI

    14A Foot: Prefix

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    47
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    EVIL

    10D Devil's work

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    AGREE

    56D Be in accord

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    154
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    STUN

    24D Shock

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    123
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    LAMA

    32D Buddhist monk

    12
    107
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    SUR

    49D Big ___, Calif.

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    DINE

    62D Eat fancily

    11
    54
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    DEAN

    72A Campus bigwig

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    121
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    SOY

    25A Kind of sauce

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    107
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    TIES

    60D Neckwear

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    GATE

    13D Garden entrance

    9
    91
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    TESTY

    71A Irritable

    9
    77
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    EWER

    33D Pitcher, but not the diamond kind

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    146
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    PAST

    61D History, with "the"

    8
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    GILA

    7D ___ monster

    8
    55
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    SLEEP

    50A Hibernation

    7
    60
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    PILOT

    19A 747 flier

    7
    47
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    EVITA

    16A "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" musical

    6
    84
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    HEFT

    58D Weight

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    35
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    CRAB

    27D Ill-tempered one

    5
    85
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    BLIP

    31D Radar image

    5
    60
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    PEGS

    5A Hard baseball throws

    5
    49
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    TREBLE

    29A ___ clef

    5
    22
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    OLIO

    44A Mishmash

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    157
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    FLAW

    39A Defect

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    39
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    CORGI

    64A Welsh dog

    4
    37
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    BELLA

    2D Abzug of the National Women's Hall of Fame

    4
    25
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    EFT

    30D Eastern newt

    3
    73
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    APSES

    1D Church recesses

    3
    69
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    ELFIN

    20A Mischievous

    3
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    FRESH

    68A Sassy

    3
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    EUR

    52A Locale for Switz. or the U.K.

    2
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    IDEE

    70A ___ fixe (obsession)

    2
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    ENIAC

    65A Early computer

    2
    59
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    STETS

    8D "Let it stand" orders

    2
    41
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    RAPID

    53D Swift

    2
    38
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    STREAM

    54A Creek

    2
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    EDIFY

    3D Instruct

    2
    29
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    DITCH

    26A Get rid of

    2
    28
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    BLACK

    45A African-American

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    18
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    ENRICO

    18D Physicist Fermi

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    22
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    CURIO

    37A Odd souvenir

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    MIKES

    57D Studio sound equipment

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    12
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    ZEPHYR

    9D Gentle breeze

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    7
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    HITPARADE

    58A Top 40 song list

    1
    6
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    LILI

    11D "___ Marlene" (classic song)

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  65. 65
    EDUC

    6D Instruction: Abbr.

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    ITON

    12D "Try ___ for size"

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    29
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    ZELIG

    9A 1983 Woody Allen title role

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    20
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    SAYERS

    23A Mystery writer Dorothy

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    16
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    SKETCH

    43D Outline

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    HILLS

    28D Rome has seven

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    9
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    PROFIT

    51D Business motive

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    SETUPS

    47A Blind dates, e.g.

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    TIDIED debut

    4D Cleaned (up)

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    NATIONALPASTIME

    40A Baseball ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme

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    6
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    PEACHY

    48D "Splendid!"

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    6
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    SLIDERULE

    17A Old math calculating tool

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    3
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    PITCHFORK debut

    66A Barn tool

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    2
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    CATCHLINE debut

    21A Attention-getter in an ad

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