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

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   EEL

   24A Feaster on frogs

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   EARS

   22A Drum containers

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   ORSO

   40A "In that area"

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   ICED

   21A Whacked

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   HEP

   33A Clued in, once

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   SLUR

   25A Legato indicator

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   ESTATE

   13D Passing subject?

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   ELMS

   22D Nine ___ (London district)

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    BONO

    38A Singer who is part owner of Forbes magazine

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    MIRO

    28D "Blue II" painter, 1961

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    COCO

    39A First name in fragrances

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    SIRS

    25D "Dear" ones

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    IOUS

    4D Evidence that one is short

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    SOBER

    15D Not lit

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    SIZE

    32A Fitting decision?

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    BETTE

    41A Cousin in a Balzac title

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    SLAG

    43D Waste

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    CRETE

    23A Site of the siege of Candia

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    CURE

    23D Bug zapper?

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    POETS

    35D Meter makers

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    BAUM

    19D Princess Ozma's creator

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    AIRY

    37A Delicate

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    BENE

    19A Roman well

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    BASRA

    41D City bombed in the gulf war

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    TYS

    46D Country singers England and Herndon

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    ANNALS

    16A History

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    ENTICE

    34D Bait

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    ONIONS

    7D Things in rings

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    BLOTS

    36A Stains

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    AWOLS

    3D Base runners?

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    JAMIE

    14D Artist Wyeth

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    BESTIR

    38D Get going

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    LOCATOR

    31D Global positioning system, e.g.

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    CHANNEL

    1D Remote access?

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    MMS

    5D A foot has 305 of these: Abbr.

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    MANNS

    18A Manfred ___ Earth Band

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    ALTE

    9D Old one, along the Oder

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    ABAB

    20A Basic verse option

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    OESTE

    40D Honduras-to-Guatemala dirección

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    COZY

    26D Under a quilt, say

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    TENACE

    12D Hand holding

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    NBCTV

    29D It's headquartered in the G.E. Building

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    GASLIT

    44A Reminiscent of the 1890s

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    LELAND

    2D Stanford of Stanford University

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    FISKE

    8D Big name in college guides

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    ARCTAN debut

    37D Certain inverse function

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    CUTTER

    26A Coast Guard boat

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    HOTLICK

    33D Bit of jazz improvisation

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    TRANSECT

    42A Cut across

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    CLAIMTOFAME

    1A Climbing Mt. Everest, for Sir Edmund Hillary

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    DETONATE

    27D Set off

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    EVENBET

    11D 50-50 proposition

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    GIPP

    44D Rockne protégé

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    NFLERS debut

    29A Cowboys, but not Indians

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    FLORIN debut

    30D Sacramento suburb

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    MORIARTY debut

    10D Holmes fought him

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    POKEINTO

    17A Probe

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    DIMMEMORY debut

    27A It's hard to recall

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    JEALOUSMISTRESS debut

    14A Art, metaphorically

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    NOTATANYPRICE debut

    47A Only if it's worth the trade-off

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    REGENTSPARK debut

    48A London Zoo locale

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    TAMPERRESISTANT debut

    6D Like most medicine bottles

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    THEWOMANILOVE debut

    12A 1937 Paul Muni drama

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    VITALSTATISTICS debut

    45A Census Bureau data

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