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Sunday · 140 answers · 10 debuts

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

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    ODE

    86D Ben Jonson wrote one to himself

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    ALA

    120D In the manner of

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    EEL

    32A Certain spawner

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    ERE

    72A Lead-in for long

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    SNL

    92A Show featuring many alumni of L.A.'s Groundlings comedy troupe

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    ANTI

    44A One side in a debate

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    RED

    87D Like Twizzlers, usually

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    SKA

    119D Reggae relative

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    OPEN

    100D Candid

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    ETAS

    8D Greek vowels

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    STEW

    52D Stay up nights

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    ASEA

    1A Voyaging

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    ACTS

    112D Makes a move

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    ESL

    62A Night school subj.

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    INRE

    111D Memo starter

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    ALES

    124A Tavern selections

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    LAP

    41D Baby's resting spot

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    ARID

    117A Insipid

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    RENT

    9D Best Musical of 1996

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    AAH

    59A Sound from a hot tub

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    AMA

    42D G.P.'s grp.

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    SEAT

    113D Politician's goal

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    CONE

    22A Volcanic formation

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    ROAR

    13D Big laugh

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    CHI

    56D A.L. or N.L. Central city

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    APOP

    104A Each

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    ALERT

    60A Yellow flag

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    ASHY

    127A Like a spent campfire

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    ESTE

    69D Longtime Ferrara family name

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    SEN

    20D Capitol Hill abbr.

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    ATTN

    73A Abbr. on an envelope

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    NIH

    27A Medical research org.

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    TEAR

    106A Make a mad dash

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    AMMO

    30A Magazine supply

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    STERN

    63D Place for an outboard motor

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    SPIN

    34A Quick trip

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    ABIT

    15A Somewhat

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    HONOR

    21A Plaque, e.g.

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    CRY

    58D Ejaculate

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    TERSE

    125A To the point

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    MIR

    43D 45-Down in Russian

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    ECOL

    61A Env. science

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    AMISS

    48A Off the mark

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    DRAMA

    101D Kind of queen

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    RURAL

    110A On the range, say

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    DOM

    7D Monk's title

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    COLD

    82D How you may know something

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    CRUX

    25A Heart

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    ILOSE

    75A Words of concession

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    ERN

    14D West end?

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    PEACE

    45D 43-Down in English

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    ASPCA

    1D Org. for pound watchers?

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    TRADE

    91A Sports page news

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    TODD

    68D Mary in the White House

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    ACCESS

    15D Public ___

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    FEM

    114A Like about half the world's pop.

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    ODESSA

    31D The Pearl of the Black Sea

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    CUR

    26A Mangy mutt

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    MAZE

    121A Construction financed by a hedge fund?

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    AURAL

    102D Acoustic

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    SERUM

    2D Flu fighter

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    ERLE

    51D First name in courtroom drama

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    OPERAS

    98D Cultural entertainment

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    SHARE

    10A Percentage

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    ANTENNA

    12D Alternative to a dish

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    DEIST

    29A Thomas Paine, for one

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    PRIZE

    103D Cup, maybe

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    STADT

    126A Köln or Nürnberg

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    SHARPS

    10D Experts, slangily

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    ARDOR

    46D Fire

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    DIO

    116A God, in Roma

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    ROTATE

    99D Spin

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    MOTEL

    35D Traveler's stop

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    DRAKE

    80D Donald Duck, e.g.

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    CROAT

    122A Eastern European

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    MVP

    115D Star athlete, briefly

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    BORIS

    16D Czar in a Mussorgsky opera

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    PAO

    45A Kung ___ chicken

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    STUPOR

    84A Sot's state

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    DORITO

    29D Crunchy chip

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    STARTER

    28A Not a substitute

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    PURIST

    77D Precisionist

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    RACIEST

    5D Most spicy

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    RDS

    70D Places for forks: Abbr.

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    HRE

    54D Charlemagne's realm: Abbr.

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    NOV

    74D Mo. with topaz as its birthstone

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    RIDER

    5A Hitchhiker

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    INTOTO

    40D Completely

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    INSEAM

    37D It runs down the leg

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    PAZ

    85D La ___, Bolivia

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    ADJ

    4D Descriptive wd.

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    KETTLE

    71D Where something may be brewing

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    KNUTE

    83D All-American name

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    RECALL

    79D Automaker's bane

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    AMHERST

    96D Emily Dickinson's home

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    AITCH

    108D Common aspiration

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    PARSEC

    55A 3.26 light-years

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    DAPPLE

    101A Certain Arab

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    HOTTIE

    11D Babe or fox

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    LOBED

    33D Like ears

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    XFACTOR

    94D Unknown element

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    NIBBLE

    66D Just a bite

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    ULEE

    38D Peter Fonda title role

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    INUSE

    17D Busy

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    NEDS

    39D Actor Beatty and others

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    OSOLE

    47D "___ Mio"

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    DEP

    76A Airline abbr.

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    ENORM

    3D Vast, in verse

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    HAST

    24D Biblical verb

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    EDNAS

    107D Best and Ferber

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    EPH

    105A Book before Phil.

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    SPADES

    97D Bidding card game

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    TEXTS

    18D Transcripts

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    ULA

    67D Suffix with form

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    ECT

    118D Outer: Prefix

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    EARPS

    62D Tombstone brothers

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    LTCOL

    64D Maj.'s superior

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    NEEDLES

    49A Razzes

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    TETHERS

    53A Ties up

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    PROVERB

    88A Saw

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    MOSSES

    35A Bryologists' study

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    APPL

    81D Stove or washer: Abbr.

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    ROSEY

    109D Grier of the gridiron

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    ICETEAS

    111A Summertime quaffs

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    LEANERS

    50D One-pointers

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    INTHECAN

    6D Wrapped up

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    CALX

    93A Mineral residue

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    SENDSANOTE

    19A Writes quickly

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    DESPOND

    89A Feel extreme discouragement

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    PLURALIZED debut

    95A Made multiple

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    TAKESPLACE

    123A Happens

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    DESERTCOLORADO debut

    57A Abandon the Centennial State?

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    DISCOUNTSENIORS debut

    36A What ageists do?

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    DRIPFEED debut

    90D Hospital hook up

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    ENTRANCESERVANTS debut

    118A What a hypnotist might do for help?

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    LAMENTABLE debut

    41A Sad

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    MINUTENEWYORK debut

    65A Not-so-Big Apple?

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    PROJECTMANHATTAN debut

    23A Show a Woody Allen feature?

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    RECORDBADTRACK debut

    78A Cut an awful demo?

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    SAKEFOROLDTIMES debut

    97A Drink at a Kyoto reunion?

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