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

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   AREA

   24A Gray ___

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   ICE

   44A It may be crushed

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   ABA

   9D Old hoops grp.

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   SECT

   36A Divergent doctrine developer

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   OOZE

   19D Get through slowly

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   OOO

   20A Game winner

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   SAVE

   38A Commercial catchword

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   DENTS

   43D They may be pounded out

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    ERST

    35D While lead-in

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    LISA

    45D Heroine of Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame"

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    LETGO

    40D Axed

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    ALPHA

    1A Highest-ranking, in some hierarchies

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    SALTS

    7D Puts (away)

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    AERIE

    37A Place for the high life?

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    ASPIC

    1D Glistening garnish

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    LORNA

    2D First name of a Blackmore heroine

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    AISLES

    37D Some seats are next to them

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    NEUTER

    32A Like worker bees

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    GOATS

    52A Victims

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    HUMP

    22A Good thing to get over

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    SPATE

    28D Avalanche

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    AMULET

    15D Necklace option

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    LEW

    47D Two-time Wimbledon winner ___ Hoad

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    AVIARY

    33A One may have stilts

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    ASIATIC

    6A Kind of cholera

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    EVERT

    42D Turn outward

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    HAGUE

    22D ___ Tribunal (international arbitration court)

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    SOLIDS

    13A Side in eightball

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    ALINES

    6D Some garment cuts

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    SIZES

    23A 9W and others

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    CLEOPATRA

    12D Visitor to Rome in 46 B.C.

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    HIVES

    4D Queens' homes

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    BESTED

    34D Beat

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    ARGENT

    29A Silvery white

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    ASSESSED

    49A Taxed

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    LAMIA

    41D 1819 Keats poem

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    CHESSSET

    25A Place for knights

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    PRAVDA

    16A What Putin is often put in

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    BETHESDA

    34A Naval Medical Center locale

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    LASTTOLEAVE debut

    45A There until the bitter end

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    PLATS

    3D Pieces of land

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    ALANBALL debut

    15A Best Original Screenplay winner for "American Beauty"

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    CARLISLE

    46A Pennsylvania city where Franklin signed a treaty with Indians, 1753

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    HAVEACASE debut

    26D Be able to gather enough evidence

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    MISSPELLED debut

    39A Like hors d'ouevres

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    PITMEN

    48A Miners

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    ANTIPOPE debut

    29D Alexander V, e.g.

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    CLASSICAL debut

    25D Music genre

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    ENGIRT debut

    50A Surrounded

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    EPICVERSE debut

    27D "Iliad," e.g.

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    INLY

    8D Toward the center

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    LAPPET

    31A Small flap on a garment

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    ADDRESSER debut

    5D One on a podium, perhaps

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    CASSEROLES debut

    21A Potluck array

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    ILLOMENED debut

    11D Unlucky

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    INTERCOUNTY debut

    18A Regional

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    LEEWAYS debut

    51A Margins of safety

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    MASSY debut

    39D Large and heavy-looking

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    MILLABLE debut

    17A Like peppercorns

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    REHEELING debut

    30D Cobbler's job

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    SACRISTY debut

    14D Cleric's vesting place

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    TABOURETS debut

    10D Low stools

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