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Friday · 68 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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    TEN

    43A Top of some scales

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    ONCE

    7D If ever

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    326
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    AMI

    33A Any of les Trois Mousquetaires

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    302
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    HER

    30A Utterance when pointing to a woman

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    237
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    ESE

    37A In the style of: Suffix

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    386
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    APT

    9D Not out of place

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    217
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    STE

    25A ___ Genevieve County, Mo.

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    274
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    EDNA

    47D Mrs. Turnblad in "Hairspray"

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    245
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    LENT

    11D Carnival follower

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    129
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    EIRE

    39A Island republic

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    204
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    PHI

    40A ___ phenomenon (optical illusion)

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    112
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    INIT

    50D Competing

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    117
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    EATS

    34A Acts on a gut feeling?

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    166
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    EXEC

    2D One making firm decisions

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    101
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    LEAD

    31A Chief

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    100
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    MAS

    45A Univ. offerings

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    111
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    PEEL

    51D Strip

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    97
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    STRUT

    21A Car bar

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    47
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    TAPA

    49D Spanish hors d'oeuvre

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    36
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    OSS

    22A W.W. II agcy.

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    114
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    MERIT

    45D Kind of scholarship

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    66
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    SPLIT

    26A Take off

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    57
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    SADIE

    29A When repeated, a "Funny Girl" song

    5
    48
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    CELS

    23A Drawer units?

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    45
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    TENANT

    18A Many a monthly check writer

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    41
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    SHOAL

    32D Navigation hazard

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    36
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    APLOMB

    9A Coolness

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    27
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    NINO

    3D Hombre, once

    3
    66
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    BRAD

    36A Hardware store offering

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    56
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    EARED

    41A Like most mammals

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    56
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    ESSE

    52D Forum infinitive

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    181
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    ELDEST

    5D Like many an heir apparent

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    41
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    TREADS

    58A Risers meet them

    2
    18
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    KAFKA

    42A He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"

    2
    14
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    RRS

    54D Commuters' choices: Abbr.

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    93
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    CLOD

    44A Chump

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    50
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    HARTE

    35A Gold rush storyteller

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    32
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    SPARROW

    29D U.S. air-to-air missile

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    10
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    GLIDER

    53A Quiet craft

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    9
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    SPRATS

    32A Famously fussy pair of diners

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    7
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    DECREED

    38D Ordained

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    5
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    PRESSES

    10D Importunes

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    5
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    DEBS

    1D Five-time U.S. presidential candidate in the early 1900s

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    36
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    ILLER

    46A Not having as favorable a prognosis

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    SEDATED

    20D Put under?

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    15
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    LITES

    24D The Chi-___ (1970s R & B group)

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    11
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    FAILS

    6D Goes under

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    10
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    HEFNER

    56A Bunny backer?

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    10
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    STEROIDS

    4D Some athletes shoot them

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    7
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    EXITLANE

    15A Way off

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    5
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    YATITTLE

    59A QB who was the 1963 N.F.L. M.V.P.

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    5
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    PREMIE

    16A Special delivery?

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    4
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    APIARIES

    57A Where workers gather

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    3
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    DORIES

    38A Fishing boats

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    3
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    DENSEFOG debut

    1A Navigation hazard

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    2
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    OMARSHARIF

    12D "Che!" title role player, 1969

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    2
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    SLEEPTIGHT debut

    26D "Pleasant dreams"

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    2
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    WARZONES debut

    55A Dangerous places for correspondents

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    2
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    BEASPORT debut

    36D "C'mon, do me this favor"

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    1
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    BENEDICT debut

    17A Married man who had long been a bachelor

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    1
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    BETTERIDEA debut

    14D Alternative that should be followed

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    1
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    GETSCARRIEDAWAY debut

    8D Overdoes it

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    1
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    KARZAI debut

    42D Post-Taliban Afghan president

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    1
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    LATEINLIFE debut

    28D Past prime time?

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    1
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    MINUTEMARK debut

    13D Watch notch

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    1
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    PEASHELLER debut

    27D Seed-separating gizmo

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    1
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    SCORELESS debut

    19A Missing the point?

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    1
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    WATERPIPE debut

    48A Main, maybe

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    1