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Thursday · 74 answers · 13 debuts

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

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    LEE

    28A Actress Grant

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    TNT

    34D Big bang producer

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    338
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    ESP

    51A One way to pick things up, for short

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    344
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    ONCE

    41A A long time ago

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    STIR

    5D Roil

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    292
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    ENT

    42D Tolkien creature

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    OKS

    18A Nods, perhaps

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    127
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    SOSO

    29A Fair

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    154
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    KEN

    59D Scope

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    144
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    ECRU

    50A Lampshade shade, perhaps

    15
    196
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    TENET

    34A Precept

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    147
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    SRS

    56D A.C.T. takers

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    ALARM

    30A Eye-opener?

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    104
  14. 14
    IBM

    23D Its name is also its N.Y.S.E. symbol

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    106
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    SEN

    64A Legis. title

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    ZEN

    54A Path to enlightenment

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    AWARE

    22D Sentient

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    PESTO

    40A Green sauce

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    86
  19. 19
    HAITI

    9D Land that won its independence in 1804

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    60
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    AFOOT

    16A In progress

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    52
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    IRISH

    19A Like rock's U2

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    85
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    DIG

    57A "Catch my drift?"

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    58
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    HAI

    15A Yokohama yes

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    73
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    PADRE

    60A Father figure?

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    53
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    WASABI

    27A Green condiment

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    29
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    MEA

    48A "___ virtute me involvo": Horace

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    100
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    ERES

    25A "___ Tu" (1974 hit)

    5
    53
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    UMASS

    55A Minutemen of the Atlantic Ten Conf.

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    31
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    HOHO

    53D Christmas sound

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    40
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    SOLACE

    26D Assuage

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    26
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    OCULI

    17A Eyes

    3
    25
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    CICERO

    2D Originator of the phrase "Let the punishment fit the offense"

    3
    23
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    REDONE

    31D Fixed up

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    19
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    RARA

    31A ___ avis

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    LOREN

    32A "Two Women" actress

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    CISCO

    39A ___ Systems, computer networking giant

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    ATODDS

    43D Conflicting

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    HEMEN

    62A Heavy weightlifters, maybe

    2
    22
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    ECZEMA

    45D Itch's cause

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    12
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    STOMACH

    52A See 65-Across

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    6
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    STR

    24A Orch. section

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    XER

    20A Gen-___

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    53
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    AFR

    10D It touches the Atlantic O.

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    37
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    INTOTO

    49A Entirely

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    33
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    BIZET

    14A "The Pearl Fishers" composer

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    RAREBIT

    21A Cheese dish

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    CMD

    6A Military hqtrs.: Abbr.

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  48. 48
    DISBAR

    8D Oust from practice

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  49. 49
    LOISLANE

    11D Metropolis gal

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    OVO

    33D Ab ___ (from the beginning)

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  51. 51
    ASSOC

    38D Part of Nasdaq: Abbr.

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  52. 52
    DSO

    61A Brit. medal

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    NEL

    4D First word of Dante's "Inferno"

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    EARPS

    42A Wild West brothers

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    NEBR

    44A Its motto is "Equality before the law": Abbr.

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    ESCAPADE

    36D Bit of mischief

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    BREMEN

    46D German port town

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    7
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    OKEMO

    58A Vermont ski resort

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    7
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    LINESMAN

    35D One involved in a faceoff

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    HALFEMPTY

    9A Like some glasses, in a phrase

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    4
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    AZURES

    3D Cool shades

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    3
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    EMPTYNEST debut

    63A Older couple's home, often

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    3
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    ISSET debut

    49D "The stage ___"

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    3
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    FOSTERED debut

    12D Promoted

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    HEPTAGON debut

    37D Geometrical figure

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    2
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    CHORALES debut

    6D They often have four parts

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    1
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    COMEUPEMPTY debut

    39D Fail, as in a search

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    1
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    EMPTYBOXES debut

    1D Moving aids, or a hint to this puzzle's theme

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    1
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    EMPTYCANS debut

    1A Redeemable recyclables

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    1
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    EMPTYTHREAT debut

    13D Statement not to worry about

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    1
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    LEAVESEMPTYHANDED debut

    35A Loses ignominiously, on a game show

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    1
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    MAKESANEMPTYPROMISE debut

    7D Pledges, but not really

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    1
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    ONANEMPTY debut

    65A With 52-Across, how to take some medications

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    1
  74. 74
    RUNONEMPTY debut

    47D Push ahead, despite exhaustion

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