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Thursday · 70 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    LEE

    7D Family name of about 15% of Koreans

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    PTA

    34D Moms and dads belong to it: Abbr.

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    ESS

    31A Curly shape

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    CEO

    56D Corp. honcho

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    SAL

    1A "A peculiar sort of a gal," in song

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    SNO

    26D ___-Cat

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    OPED

    61A Kind of column

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    EENIE

    50D Start of a counting rhyme

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    EATS

    21A Chow

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    ROIL

    4A Muddy

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    TDS

    24D Patriot's concerns, briefly

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    EMIL

    58A Mathematician Post or Artin

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    ROI

    39A Holder of le trône

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    SSR

    12D Map abbr. until 1991

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    TITO

    51A Mambo king Puente

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    SERENA

    28A Sister who's won the U.S. Open three times

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    CANINE

    55A Fang

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    NOELS

    33D Songs from rosy-cheeked singers, maybe

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    SDS

    62A New Left org.

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    ONEIL

    20D Buck ___, first black coach in Major League Baseball (Cubs, 1962)

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    ONSETS

    20A Inceptions

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    TROMP

    49D Step heavily (on)

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    RETD

    4D Part of AARP: Abbr.

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    TTOPS

    25A Some car roofs

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    DWI

    36D Bad record, for short

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    ONSPEC

    17D How many writers work

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    DENIES

    52A Contravenes

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    REE

    59A Riddle-me-___

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    MILD

    54D Like Clark Kent's manner

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    AGITATE

    2D Perturb

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    SORTOF

    35D Rather

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    SUNSETS

    1D Hackneyed movie endings

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    TONITE

    45D This evening, on posters

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    EXPELS

    9D Runs out

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    FESTS

    8A Themed events

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    LOCATOR

    3D G.P.S. device, e.g.

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    STOLAF

    40A Minnesota college

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    STANDBY

    19A Request that often follows "Please"

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    SIXERS

    15A Allen Iverson's teammates till '06

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    WAITASEC

    44A "Hold on!"

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    ICONOCLAST debut

    22A Oscar Wilde or Bill Maher, for example

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    SYNOPSIS debut

    15D TV Guide info

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    ERNE

    14A Seaside raptor

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    CMI

    55D Third year in the reign of Edward the Elder

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    IDEES

    60A Foreign thoughts

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    LICENSE

    38D Certain plate

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    ALTERED

    42D Not the same anymore

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    ORIBI

    5D Small African antelope

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    TRESSES

    11D Locks

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    AROLL

    47A Hot, after "on"

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    FIASCO

    8D Big bomb

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    UGO

    13A Actor Tognazzi of "La Cage aux Folles"

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    IIS

    30A Grafton's "___ for Innocent"

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    NICOTINE

    16A Ingredient in some gum

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    AMINES

    46D Organic compounds with nitrogen

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    ORIFICE

    23D Opening

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    REMOTES

    53A They give you control

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    DBL

    36A R.B.I. producer, sometimes: Abbr.

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    MISTED

    57A Lightly sprayed

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    AIRSPEED

    29D What machmeters measure

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    BANDAID

    37D Not a long-term solution

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    FLOSSES

    43D Gets ready to brush, maybe

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    LOITERS

    41D Overstays?

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    YAPPER

    18A Gossip

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    CONIFERS debut

    56A Cedar and hemlock

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    INCOMPLETE

    48A Like some passes

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    INNYC

    6D "Back ___" (1974 Genesis song)

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    REPOSTED debut

    27A Like some announcements that have been lost

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    SEPTATE

    10D Having a dividing wall, in biology

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    COINFLIPS debut

    32A Starts of some games ... and of the answers to 16-, 22-, 48 and 56-Across?

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