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Friday · 72 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    EAR

    5D Attention

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    ACNE

    32A Bad marks gotten in high school?

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    NEE

    4D It separates two names

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    EVA

    52D 2006 Bond girl ___ Green

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    REM

    10D Nocturnal cycle occurrence

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    BRO

    50D Dawg

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    LAS

    45A Syllables sung by Figaro

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    TONE

    20D Cosmetologist's concern

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    OPTS

    3D Gets off the fence

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    IRAS

    18A 1040 subjs.

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    MED

    21A Antibiotic, e.g., briefly

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    ZEN

    53D Road to enlightenment, for some

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    OPEDS

    8D Pundit pieces

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    BTU

    42A HVAC measure

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    HARE

    36D Famously overconfident competitor

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    TAEBO

    40A Cardio option

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    LOUD

    47D Obstreperous

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    COPA

    25A "Meet Me at the ___"

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    CALEB

    25D Biblical scout

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    TBONES

    1A Hearty cuts

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    ZITI

    48A Tubes in an oven

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    NADIR

    28A Culmination's opposite

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    49
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    ASARULE

    54A In the main

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    IFFY

    43A Not settled

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    ZINC

    48D Calamine component

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    LOSER

    47A 36-Down, notably

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    SOBE

    33A Lizard Fuel beverage maker

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    OPHELIA

    15A The "thee" in "Get thee to a nunnery"

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    DANCES

    57A Boston and Charleston

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    DURESS

    44A Defense attorney's claim

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    PIU

    46A "Non ___ andrai" (Figaro aria)

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    DOYLE

    44D Creator of Professor Challenger

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    CLICHE

    14D Chestnut

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    SAPOR

    41A Palate stimulus

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    COR

    22A Prefix with relation

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    HUD

    26A Govt. org. associated with auctions

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    FEINT

    27A Fencing action

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    TABBY

    30D Puss

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    ABHORS

    23A Finds unbearable

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    AFLCIO

    23D Org. with a handshake in its logo

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    BACARDI

    2D Owner of Martini & Rossi, Dewar's and Grey Goose

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    TIPJAR

    40D Place for extra notes on a piano?

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    ROLODEX

    56A Spinner with numbers

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    GAYDAR

    13D Sense of orientation

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    ALAMODE

    11D Having gotten the scoop?

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    BEING

    24D It's alive

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    GALEN

    31A Founder of experimental physiology

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    STUDY

    19A Room in Clue

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    LECTERN

    16A Address location

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    MRBIG

    34A Top banana

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    SUSSEX

    41D Area where the hoax Piltdown man was found

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    YOGURT

    7D Kind of smoothie

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    NABORS

    28D He played an attendant at Wally's Filling Station in 1960s TV

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    AVENUEQ

    55A Musical with the song "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"

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    STATUES

    38D Bronzes, maybe

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    GERMANY

    17A Bad setting

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    GOGOS

    31D "Our Lips Are Sealed" band

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    SUSIEQ

    39D Final track on the Rolling Stones' "12 X 5"

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    NINEPIN

    12D One standing in the back of an alley

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    5
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    MAFIOSO

    34D One who might be seen in the offing?

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    OBLIQUE

    37D Indirect

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    REFUSAL

    35D Thumbs-down

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    SUNSHINE

    6D Gloom's opposite

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    CHAPEAU

    14A Lid

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    UHRY

    9D Pulitzer winner for "Driving Miss Daisy"

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    BEZIQUE

    51A Favorite card game of Winston Churchill

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    EXITLINE debut

    29A Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g.

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    JOSBOYS debut

    49A 1886 Alcott sequel

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    SUPERBAD debut

    33D 2007 hit comedy with a character who dubbed himself McLovin

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    HUGOBOSS debut

    36A Giant in fashion

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    THEROUX debut

    1D "The Great Railway Bazaar" travel writer

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    YOURANG debut

    7A Response of mock subservience

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