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Monday · 76 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    END

    40A With "of" plus 49-Down, momentous time

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    447
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    IRA

    29D Lyricist Gershwin

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    448
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    ADO

    32D "Much ___ About Nothing"

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    477
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    ELSE

    60A Otherwise

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    440
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    STAR

    19A Something to wish upon

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    316
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    ONES

    1D Change for a five

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    295
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    UNIT

    16A ___ of measure

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    230
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    ATAD

    27D Not much

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    156
  9. 9
    KNEE

    33D Midleg joint

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    264
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    OER

    38D "___ the land of the free ..."

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    248
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    ASPS

    35D Egyptian snakes

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    157
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    EARL

    17A Husband of a countess

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    195
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    ESPN

    26D "Monday Night Football" channel

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    IMIN

    62A Poker declaration

    18
    86
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    ASTI

    30A ___ Spumante

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    ETTU

    8D "___, Brute?"

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    191
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    OLGA

    1A Korbut who was a sensation at the 1972 Olympics

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    133
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    AESOP

    24A Fable writer

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    127
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    OBIT

    28D Death notice, for short

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    142
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    KIA

    33A Korean automaker

    13
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    ABATE

    15A Subside

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    108
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    EENY

    56D Start of a counting-out rhyme

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    DOPE

    59A Inside info

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    LEAP

    2D Jump

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    103
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    ROIL

    53D Stir up, as the waters

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    DEAN

    9D College official

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    121
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    BASE

    25D First, second, third or home

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    104
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    OILS

    28A Traditional paintings

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    SALEM

    22D 1690s Massachusetts witch hunt locale

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    107
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    SPIN

    55D Twirl ... or a cryptic hint to 20-, 36- and 51-Across?

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    104
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    NEAT

    14A Tidy

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    224
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    NEAP

    42A ___ tide

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    114
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    ASPEN

    46D Colorado resort

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    GAPS

    10A Fissures

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    PASTA

    18A Rigatoni or spaghetti

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    89
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    XES

    45D Illiterates' marks

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    65
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    PERT

    57A Sassy

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    97
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    PIANO

    12D Instrument for Rachmaninoff

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    88
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    BIRD

    43A Tweety ___ of Warner Bros. cartoons

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    40
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    STREP

    13D Throat ailment

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    54
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    GARR

    3D Teri of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

    5
    51
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    ANTIS

    11D Those voting nay

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    44
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    EDICT

    37D Proclamation

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    53
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    SLANT

    64A Bias

    4
    53
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    DEPOT

    41A Railroad station

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    47
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    IOWAN

    50D Des Moines native

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    44
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    PURSE

    48D Derby prize

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  48. 48
    SPELL

    47D Participate in a bee

    4
    30
  49. 49
    ELLS

    52D Building additions

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  50. 50
    TONY

    65A Theater award

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    59
  51. 51
    ASPIC

    46A Molded jelly

    3
    50
  52. 52
    SFPD

    31D Real-life org. seen in "Bullitt"

    3
    38
  53. 53
    LIRAS

    61A Pesos : Mexico :: ___ : Turkey

    3
    36
  54. 54
    ERNEST

    44D Author Hemingway

    2
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  55. 55
    SABRE

    31A Buffalo hockey player

    2
    34
  56. 56
    CAPOTE

    5D Truman who wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

    2
    17
  57. 57
    YUL

    21D Brynner who starred in "The King and I"

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    42
  58. 58
    LOEWE

    58A Lerner's partner for "Camelot"

    1
    40
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    AIRER

    49A Broadcaster

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    29
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    GASSY

    7D Bloated, as the stomach

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    23
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    NOMO

    54D Baseball's Hideo

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    17
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    NUTTY

    23A Daft

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    17
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    BEATLE

    25A John, Paul, George or Ringo

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    15
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    EXCESS

    44A Overindulgence

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    11
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    BITTER

    43D Not sweet

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    7
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    NLER

    63A Dodger or Met, for short

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    IDAS

    34D Actress Lupino and others

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    ANERA

    49D See 40-Across

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    ABAFT

    6D Sternward

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    23
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    CAGED

    5A Like animals in a zoo

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    ATLANTIC

    4D Europe/America separator, with "the"

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    8
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    ONCREDIT

    39D By deferred payment

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    5
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    GUSHES debut

    10D Spews, as lava

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    4
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    SPACEOFDIAMONDS debut

    36A Tiffany showroom?

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    1
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    SPRAYOFSUNSHINE debut

    20A Aerosol tanning?

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    1
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    SPUTTERNONSENSE debut

    51A Babble incoherently?

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    1