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Saturday · 72 answers · 14 debuts

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

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    ART

    5D The "her" in Beethoven's question "Who comprehends her?"

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    AIM

    45A Targeting need

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    ALEC

    6A The spy in "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold"

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    MAC

    37D Buddy

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    INTO

    49D Digging

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    LAIR

    7D Refuge

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    CLAM

    57A Buck

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    AVER

    3D Maintain

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    IBIS

    49A One sacred to ancient Egyptians

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    HORN

    20A Game ender, perhaps

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    ALAN

    19A Religious philosopher Watts

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    TARA

    16A It had "well-kept acres," in a classic novel

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    AGER

    59A Stress, say

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    ANNO

    30D Monumental year?

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    SOSA

    52D Dominican slugger

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    BONO

    2D One-named rocker

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    LINE

    39D Ancestry

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    MEAN

    4D Suggest

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    SHIA debut

    46D Some Muslims

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    ETTE

    60A Suffix with couch

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    GEMS

    35A Beauties

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    AGAME

    45D "Only ___" (NPR program)

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    SILT

    47D Channel buildup

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    TORN

    22D Divided

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    TVS

    23A Sharp things

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    ANTIS

    6D The opposition

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    CAESAR

    42D Self-proclaimed conqueror

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    38
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    MOES

    37A TV tavern that sells Duff Beer

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    36
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    OBAMA debut

    1A Senator who wrote "Dreams From My Father"

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    ESME

    8D Title girl of a "Nine Stories" story

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    RPI

    34A N.Y. engineering sch.

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    OHOH

    1D Eager student's cry

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    ISPY

    51D Kids play it

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    JIM

    40D "Herman" cartoonist Unger

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    TRA

    23D La lead-in

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    NASH

    15A Ambassador or Statesman, once

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    IQS

    55D Head counts?

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    ETALII

    10D Latin list-ender

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    SANK

    13D Dropped

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    SISSY

    31D Bruiser's antithesis

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    NEGEV

    25D Beersheba locale

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    HOVER

    14A Hang

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    24
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    ONEATATIME

    17A "Wait your turn!"

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    BEIN

    50D Peaceful gathering, 60's-style

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    NOSTRA

    25A Ours, in Umbria

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    QTIPS

    58A Sticks in a bathroom

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    LEBRONJAMES

    39A N.B.A. star who was on the cover of Sports Illustrated while still in high school

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    ERI

    38A Epsilon ___ (the planet Vulcan's star)

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    EPOS

    10A Oral verse

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    INLA

    56A Where I-5 crosses I-10

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    IMAT

    48D "While ___ it ..."

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    SONYA

    61A "Crime and Punishment" heroine

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    HICS

    53A Tippling evidence

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    ORANGEPEEL

    12D Bar garnish

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    TRS

    28D ___-80 (old computer)

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    CICELY

    43A Potherb plant

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    CARRS debut

    29D "It Must Be Him" singer and others

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    3
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    CIANO

    44A 1940's Italian Fascist leader

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    3
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    IIMAGINESO debut

    54A "Seems likely"

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    3
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    KOING

    24A Flattening

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    PALINDROME

    11D Bob, e.g.

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    CORNU

    36A Bony part

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    DOBE debut

    33D "___ careful"

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    EVERANDANON debut

    32A On occasion

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    SEMICIRCLE debut

    27D Zero halved

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    VACCINES debut

    41A Some shots

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    ADVANCENOTICE debut

    18D Fair warning

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    CABRIDES debut

    29A Tipped trips

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    CHECKBOUNCING debut

    9D It may be avoided by keeping one's balance

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    DIRECTLINK debut

    21A Nonstop connection

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    OVERACTING debut

    26D Problem addressed by a drama coach

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    STREETSIGN debut

    46A One may have an arrow

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