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Thursday · 78 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    ERA

    43A A pitcher should keep it low

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    ALA

    23D Mobile home?: Abbr.

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    ERIE

    6D Pennsylvania's northwesternmost county

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    TIE

    27D Railroad crossbeam

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    STAN

    60D Avant-garde filmmaker Brakhage

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    OMEN

    58D Impending clouds, e.g.

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    ONES

    69A ___ place

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    ANNE

    12D Monarch immediately after William and Mary

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    ALTO

    30D Middle range

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    AGRA

    28D Tourist city between Jaipur and Lucknow

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    ITO

    64D "What am ___ do?"

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    LIL

    7D One of TV's Rugrats

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    LENT

    19A Pancake Day is the day before this begins

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    LOL

    48D Ha-ha, nowadays

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    RISE

    59D Small hill

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    RATS

    13D Headliner

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    AMIE

    62A Pen pal in Paris, perhaps

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    LAG

    37A Soundtrack annoyance

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    PIN

    40D Fraternity jewelry

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    UNTO

    68A "___ This Last" (series of John Ruskin essays)

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    PASS

    71A Say no

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    EPSOM

    53A ___ salts

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    AGEE

    32D Author James

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    SPAR

    10A Boom

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    WREN

    33D Bird with speckled eggs

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    PYRE

    61D Funeral sight

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    HARE

    34D Fabled racer

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    ITAL

    14A Type type: Abbr.

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    LILAC

    18A Pale purple

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    IOTAS

    26A Bits

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    ICIER

    41D More likely to cause slipping

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    PINA

    16A ___ colada

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    ATILT

    25A Not straight up

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    SUED

    65A Exercised a legal option

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    LEAPT

    8D Bounded

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    ANNAN

    24A U.N. secretary general from Ghana

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    ASI

    25D "___ see it ..."

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    MANIA

    50A Sale day feeling

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    PIES

    11D "The Worst ___ in London" ("Sweeney Todd" song)

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    CURE

    1A Salt or smoke

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    52
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    VEST

    66A Police protection

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    CIRCA

    1D Around

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    UNITY

    63A Agreement

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    MSDOS

    56D Many PCs once ran on it

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    QATAR

    67A Doha's domain

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    NETTLE

    46A Annoy

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    DINAH

    52D Alice's pet cat in "Alice in Wonderland"

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    SHONE

    70A Stood out, in a good way

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    RANIN

    3D Entered quickly

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    SAUNA

    54D Hot spot

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    UTURN

    2D Often-illegal maneuver

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    BELLE

    5A Starr of the Old West

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    SPLITS

    10D Forks

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    WORDS

    51A They cross here

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    TWEETS

    47D Chirps

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    RATTLER

    38A Slithering danger

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    RMS

    45D Abbr. in real estate ads

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    ORIEL

    15A Bay window

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    RUNG

    17A Like a bell

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    CASABA

    29A Winter melon

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    EPISTLE

    39A Hebrews, for example

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    BOLL

    5D Cotton pod

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    ODETS

    55D "The Country Girl" playwright, 1950

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    BALK

    31D Hesitate

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    KNOLL

    21D Small hill

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    GETA

    36D "___ life!"

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    SPREADS

    60A Unfolds

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    ITAT

    35D "Take ___ face value"

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    ARTICHOKE

    44A Something you might want to get to the heart of?

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    PRAISES

    22A Writes odes to, e.g.

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    CRINKLE

    20A Make rustle, as foil

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    LORELAI debut

    57A One of TV's Gilmore Girls

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    WHIRLIGIG

    33A Colorful lawn or garden fixture

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    ELCRIC debut

    9D Coterie

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    ELGNAIRT debut

    4D Percussion instrument in an orchestra

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    ERAUQS debut

    49D Unhip person

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    LAVO debut

    57D Racetrack

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    SHAPESUP debut

    42D Quits misbehaving ... or a literal hint to 4-, 9-, 13-, 49- and 57-Down

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