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Thursday · 74 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    ALA

    63A According to

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    END

    68A This Across answer, appropriately

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    447
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    ACT

    62A Pretense

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    ADA

    16A Canine care grp.?

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    ENT

    17A Tolkien creature

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    ATIT

    30D Having words

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    EKES

    19D Just manages, with "out"

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    119
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    SECT

    32A Small denomination

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    137
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    SHEA

    57D Where the Mets once met

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    126
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    ALAN

    35D Mathematician Turing

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    CARE

    4D It may be managed or extended

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    EGAN

    9D New York cardinal

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    LASS

    8D Filly

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    MENSA

    51D Indicator of brightness

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    TALL

    44A One way to stand

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    SGT

    52A ___ Maj.

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    117
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    TOR

    66A Rocky point

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    115
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    GENIE

    26A Canadian Oscar

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    66
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    VOL

    37D TV control: Abbr.

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    55
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    ESTD

    56D Founded: Abbr.

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    70
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    LAN

    14A Computer system acronym

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    67
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    APOLLO

    45D New York theater on the National Register of Historic Places, with "the"

    6
    55
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    BESO

    59D Don Juan's kiss

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    24
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    OSE

    7D Sugar ending

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    OILY

    34D Like unwashed hair

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    SIB

    31D Bro or sis

    4
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    ANIMA

    43A True inner self

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    33
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    MARINE

    11D "Battle Cry" soldier

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    32
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    RONI

    23A Rice-A-___

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    26
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    GSUIT

    53D Astronaut's attire

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    20
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    SAS

    29A Eur. carrier

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    LINEAR

    46D Like some algebra

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    25
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    MEG

    11A Ryan of "Top Gun"

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    JESSE

    6D 19th-century James

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    32
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    TOMCAT

    44D The Rum Tum Tugger, e.g.

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    19
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    SIBERIA

    58A Where the Samoyed dog comes from

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    12
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    ITISNT

    49D Words of objection

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    7
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    RISHI

    21D Hindu sage

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    4
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    LYS

    48A Fleur-de-___

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    OPIUM

    50A It's addictive

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    37
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    DORAG

    10D Headwear banned by the N.F.L. in 2001

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    23
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    LAE

    65A Pacific port where Amelia Earhart was last seen

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    23
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    PENH

    28D Phnom ___

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    INANER

    49A Comparatively cockamamie

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    HOLST

    42A Composer of "The Planets"

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    17
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    AMERICAN

    40D Yank

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    16
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    AGESAGO

    15A Way, way back

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    15
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    CLASPS

    27A Holds

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    15
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    ROSESARERED

    18A Start of a lover's quatrain

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    5
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    AES

    24A 1950s political inits.

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    CRI

    1A ___ de coeur

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    TERR

    54A The Dakotas, once: Abbr.

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    ENATE

    38D Maternally related

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    OPP

    61D Vs.

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    EDENIC

    12D Like paradise

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    OSTIA

    34A Port of ancient Rome

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    AGORAS

    5D Ancient meeting places

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    ADORERS

    20A Big fans

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    ADAPTTO

    67A Get comfortable with

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    GADGET

    13D Thingumbob

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    MONKEES

    55A #1 album for 13 weeks in 1966-67, with "The"

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    7
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    STEPINS

    64A Panties, old-style

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    NARRATED

    41D Told tales

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    THEINVISIBLEMAN

    36A 1897 novel subtitled "A Grotesque Romance"

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    4
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    CLEARCUT

    1D Plain as day

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    3
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    INTONATE

    3D Speak with gravity

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    3
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    SNAKING

    22A Not straight, in a way

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    UPTHE

    33A ___ ante

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    CAJOLED

    4A Worked on

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    CLEANSHOUSE debut

    60A Eliminates undesirable parts

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    LUKA

    47D 1987 Suzanne Vega hit

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    RANDOLPH

    2D Air Force base near San Antonio

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    2
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    SSSSSSS

    25D 1973 horror flick about a doctor who turns his assistant into a cobra

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    MINERALE debut

    39D Eau ___

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