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Wednesday · 76 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    ANTI

    59A Pro's rival

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    364
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    ETAL

    20A Series finale

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    327
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    ONCE

    25A Way back when

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    326
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    ISLE

    62D Tropical stop

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    316
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    LEI

    37A Island chain?

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    310
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    IOTA

    16A Ninth in a series

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    243
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    OPAL

    39D Australian export

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    253
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    ADELE

    71A Fred's dancing sister

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    158
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    ITCH

    19D Result of an insect bite

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    135
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    OTIS

    12D "Miss ___ Regrets"

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    251
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    ATON

    6A Went over like ___ of bricks

    19
    136
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    TUNA

    41D Bluefin or yellowfin

    18
    112
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    STAB

    54D Wild guess

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    181
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    OMIT

    18D Bypass

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    218
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    NEMO

    26D Nautilus captain

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    156
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    IMAC

    51D Apple of many colors

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    154
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    TEAS

    7D Waiter's after-dinner offerings

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    103
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    AGAR

    66A Food thickener

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    172
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    ORATE

    14A Hold forth

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    196
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    IAGO

    55D Moor's betrayer

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    173
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    LARA

    3D Yuri's love, in "Doctor Zhivago"

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    138
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    ISIS

    23A Goddess with cow's horns

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    102
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    OMAR

    53A "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" poet

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    252
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    IDA

    65D Cider girl of song

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    251
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    REIN

    15A Curb

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    147
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    HOSE

    1D Firefighter's need

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    109
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    POI

    45A Luau serving

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    120
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    OOZE

    11D Opposite of gush

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    116
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    LOOT

    10A Plunder

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    83
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    TOTO

    49D Fictional dog from Kansas

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    113
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    TRESS

    22A Lock

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    101
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    TEAL

    61D Blue hue

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    105
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    NNE

    9D Dir. from Columbus, Ga., to Columbus, Ohio

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    205
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    TARS

    67A Swabbies

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    72
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    XES

    5D Illiterates' signatures

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    65
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    AWRY

    58D Haywire

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    45
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    DIED

    36A Went kaput

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    42
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    ERAT

    2D Middle of Q.E.D.

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    170
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    NICE

    60D "Way to go!"

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    105
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    CELEB

    27D V.I.P.

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    50
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    MISC

    21A Catchall category: Abbr.

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    36
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    LYING

    29D Perjury

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    24
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    TOLD

    52A Snitched

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    53
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    SUED

    24D Courted ... or used the courts

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    52
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    TAGS

    13D Plates

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    47
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    SOTHERE

    44D "What'd I tell ya?!"

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    24
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    VISOR

    31D Golfer's wear

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    24
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    ROM

    35A CD follower

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    ARTIE

    30D Bandleader Shaw

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    GLAD

    56D Bag brand

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    71
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    EDGED

    33D Barely beat

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    43
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    ERNS

    43A Diving raptors

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    SALA

    57A Part of a casa

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    47
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    ARTIST

    6D Drawer

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    35
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    ITALICS

    4D Slanted writing

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    14
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    UPONE

    46A Barely ahead

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    23
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    NOLOSS

    50D "I didn't care about that anyway"

    2
    12
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    LIPREAD

    10D "Listen" without hearing

    2
    10
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    BODE

    69A Portend

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    42
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    FTD

    64D Bouquet business

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    28
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    REINA

    32D Isabella, por ejemplo

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    28
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    DECAL

    68A Stick-on

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    26
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    HELIX

    1A DNA half

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    23
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    SIGHT

    54A Optometrist's field

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    20
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    SIG

    42A M. : France :: ___ : Italy

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    19
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    ALERO

    28D Olds offering

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    ELYSE

    34A "Family Ties" mother

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    DRYS

    70A Prohibitionists

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    GOLDSTAR

    40D Kindergarten commendation

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    PGRATED

    47D Like many family flicks

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    DOGTROT

    38A Easy run

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    3
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    OILCOLOR

    8D 6-Down purchase

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    BOGOTALENINGRAD debut

    48A Geographical combo #3

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    CALCUTTALEHAVRE debut

    27A Geographical combo #2

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    1
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    SARASOTALEIPZIG debut

    17A Geographical combo #1

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    TALEOFTWOCITIES debut

    63A Classic novel, following "A," with a literal hint to 17-, 27- and 48-Across

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