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Saturday · 72 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    ASIA

    11D It's west of the Sea of Okhotsk

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    NSA

    60A Intelligence grp.

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    ASAP

    31D Express letters?

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    NBA

    19D Draft org.

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    DEN

    37D ___ mother

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    URN

    45D Holder of a "leaf-fringed legend," to Keats

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    ALOHA

    5D Welcome to paradise?

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    TRY

    15A Whirl

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    AWE

    33D Dazzle

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    CAN

    41A Pen

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    USSR

    12D Former part of 11-Down: Abbr.

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    ECRU

    53D Soft shade

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    URDU

    45A It's written right to left

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    OSCAR

    23D Academy offering

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    LASSO

    16A Stop from running, maybe

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    ASL

    34D It's sometimes seen in the corner of a TV screen: Abbr.

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    INIT

    51D Questionnaire datum: Abbr.

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    OTT

    57A John who pioneered time-lapse photography

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    ITOO

    6D "Was ___ hard ...?"

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    BETA

    52D Not fully tested

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    LOP

    35D Prune

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    DST

    32D It ends in the fall: Abbr.

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    COAL

    43A Big Utah export

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    ROMP

    40A Cavort

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    BEER

    50D Contents of a 56-Across

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    HALL

    10D Long way?

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    55
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    STEIN

    56A 50-Down holder

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    EWERS

    58A Some porcelain

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    TORTE

    59A Patisserie order

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    OAS

    23A Charter of Punta del Este grp.

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    AERATE

    38A Clear out

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    MOST

    48D ___ of all

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    GED

    42A Community coll. prerequisite, maybe

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    OTO

    25D Iowa relative

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    MEESE

    28D Reagan cabinet member

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    CLAUS

    9D Santa ___

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    10
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    CYRANO

    8D Rostand hero

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    9
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    CLINE

    43D Singer profiled in "Sweet Dreams"

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    29
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    INAS

    22A Sworn ___ (officially given the role of)

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    ZORBA

    1A 1968 hit musical with the song "Life Is"

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    LUAUS

    61A Parties with a whole lot of shaking going on

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    JVS

    18D Certain H.S. teams

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    OLLA

    26D Pot on a fire

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    OVO

    25A Omne vivum ex ___ (all life [is] from eggs: Lat.)

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    SESS

    54D Part of a committee sched.

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    BLISS

    4D Paradise

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    OEN

    44D Vintner's prefix

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    AEREO

    24D ___ di linea (flier to Italy)

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    ALLIED

    34A Like Cuba and Venezuela, e.g.

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    OWAR

    2D Man ___

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    ICC

    6A Former transportation regulation agcy.

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    OFME

    26A "For the life ___ ..."

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    13
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    SETADATE

    30A Make plans to tie the knot

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    ASAS

    21A Gray and others

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    OPTO

    49D Prefix with -metry

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    AWILL

    14A "Caesar, now be still: / I kill'd not thee with half so good ___": Brutus

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    5
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    DREWU

    47D Sch. in Madison, N.J.

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    5
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    EDRED

    29D Conqueror of Northumbria in 946

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    RATEL

    46D Honey badger

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    5
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    CALGON

    41D Brand for the bath

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    DOTY

    13D Feeble-minded

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    CHAUD

    9A Hot: Fr.

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    CRUCIVERBALISTS

    7D You and others

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    MOBILELIBRARIES debut

    48A Ones with reading schedules

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    ZARF

    1D Cup holder

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    2
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    BELPAESE debut

    39A Mozzarella alternative

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    CROSSWORDSOLVER debut

    36A You, e.g.

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    FIVEGUINEA debut

    27D Like an old English coin worth 21 shillings

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    FRESHVOCABULARY debut

    20A What 36-Acrosses and 7-Down appreciate

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    OPENINGSENTENCE debut

    55A "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...," e.g.

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    RADIOJOURNALIST debut

    17A One making waves in the news business?

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    RIDEASTORM debut

    3D Endure difficulties, with "out"

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