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Wednesday · 78 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    NSA

    21A Govt. code-breaking group

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    233
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    EPA

    38D Clean Air Act org.

    36
    320
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    ANY

    32D Even one

    33
    249
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    OSLO

    7D Capital near the 60th parallel

    32
    324
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    INN

    33D Wayfarer's stop

    27
    258
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    ANNE

    37A Mother of Queen Elizabeth I

    26
    283
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    DEN

    56A Study

    22
    260
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    RUE

    22A Wish to take back

    18
    207
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    DAS

    45D Some "Law & Order" figs.

    18
    115
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    RENT

    19A *Torn

    16
    190
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    RON

    6D Friend of Harry and Hermione

    16
    169
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    AMASS

    10D Collect

    16
    135
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    ROW

    64D Big fight

    16
    95
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    NERO

    58D "Quo Vadis" role

    15
    243
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    ECRU

    38A Lingerie shade

    15
    196
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    TENET

    55D Creed element

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    147
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    NAT

    54A Washington ballplayer, briefly

    13
    190
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    CHI

    39D The Bears, on scoreboards

    13
    148
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    RID

    40D Completely free

    13
    148
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    ESO

    5D That, in Tijuana

    9
    141
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    HAL

    11D Anthropomorphic cinema computer

    9
    140
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    OLIN

    12D Lena of "Chocolat"

    9
    112
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    PHIL

    43A TV Dr. of note

    9
    66
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    REX

    34D King's title

    8
    111
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    AIDA

    46A *Lover of Radames

    7
    161
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    HAIR

    31A *Extremely narrow winning margin

    7
    90
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    EVITA

    41A *A Perón

    6
    84
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    VOLT

    4D Battery unit

    6
    29
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    ATRA

    14D Gillette brand

    5
    122
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    ODEA

    60D Old music halls

    5
    72
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    MOES

    13D Place to which Bart Simpson makes prank calls

    5
    36
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    TAINT

    36D Sully

    4
    44
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    WELT

    61D Result of a whipping

    4
    25
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    OCULAR

    28D Eyepiece

    4
    23
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    TRA

    23A Song syllable

    3
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    DOCS

    56D Medics

    3
    39
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    FAME

    62A *Renown

    3
    32
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    JFK

    65D 1991 film directed by 1-Across

    3
    25
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    ORI

    66D "Either he goes ___ go!"

    2
    63
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    AVALON

    17A Arthurian paradise

    2
    35
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    LYNX

    42A Mercury model

    2
    25
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    OLIVER

    1A *Stone in Hollywood

    2
    24
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    KISMET

    70A *Destiny

    2
    23
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    CLOWN

    59A Class ___

    2
    19
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    SPAMALOT debut

    16A *What some unscrupulous e-businesses do?

    2
    11
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    CAROUSEL

    67A *Site of much horsing around?

    2
    7
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    COXES debut

    20A Regatta crew leaders

    2
    4
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    TVA

    23D New Deal program, for short

    1
    80
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    SCRUB

    51D Cancel

    1
    39
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    BRINE

    29D Curer of feta cheese

    1
    32
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    CABARET

    35A *Kind of club

    1
    21
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    INANER

    3D Goofier

    1
    20
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    CHALET

    26D Home in the Alps

    1
    15
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    LAMAZE

    49D Kind of class

    1
    15
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    NEONATAL

    47A Like some nursery care

    1
    14
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    LAVED

    9D Washed

    1
    4
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    WTS

    53A Oz. and kg.

    0
    22
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    DSC

    25A U.S. mil. medal

    0
    19
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    EVAH

    57D Cole Porter's "Well, Did You ___?"

    0
    13
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    CARAVAN

    20D Dodge on the road

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    12
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    ANADEM

    48D Ancient garland

    0
    9
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    OKLAHOMA

    7A *Home for Will Rogers and Garth Brooks

    0
    9
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    REBEC

    24D Renaissance instrument

    0
    9
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    FRIEZE

    68A Architectural decoration

    0
    8
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    JORDAN

    65A Air ___

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    8
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    OMARR

    1D Astrologer Sydney

    0
    8
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    OVERRIDE

    63A Nullify

    0
    6
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    CANDIDE

    44A *Student of Dr. Pangloss

    0
    5
  69. 69
    MINOSO debut

    15A 1950s All-Star outfielder Minnie

    0
    5
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    SHOWBOAT

    69A *Perform ostentatiously

    0
    5
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    RSA

    50A Cape Town's country: Abbr.

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    4
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    PROVERBS

    27A Whence the line "A soft answer turneth away wrath"

    0
    3
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    KPAX debut

    8D 2001 film set in a mental institution

    0
    2
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    LAVALIER

    18A Bejeweled pendant

    0
    2
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    ALISO debut

    52D ___ Viejo (California city near Laguna Beach)

    0
    1
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    FRIS debut

    62D End-of-wk. times

    0
    1
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    LIVEUP debut

    2D Meet, as expectations, with "to"

    0
    1
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    SETDOWN debut

    30D Lay

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    1