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Thursday · 72 answers · 9 debuts

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

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    ALAS

    1A "Regrettably ..."

    26
    321
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    ABLE

    3D Fit

    25
    259
  3. 3
    TON

    24A Lot

    21
    209
  4. 4
    TIA

    39A Mexican relative

    20
    144
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    PLEA

    47D Subject of some bargaining

    18
    154
  6. 6
    EARN

    48D Make

    17
    185
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    EOS

    34A Mother of the winds, in Greek myth

    17
    173
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    HBO

    28D "John Adams" airer

    17
    128
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    TADA

    53D "I did it!"

    16
    138
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    SALT

    4D Curer

    15
    115
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    ANG

    6D Lee with a 2005 Oscar

    14
    117
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    OBIT

    25D End piece?

    13
    142
  13. 13
    SNIP

    50D Presumptuous sort

    12
    133
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    JAB

    7D Hook alternative

    12
    89
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    EATS

    63A Wears (away)

    11
    166
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    RAG

    45A Title word after "Pineapple" or "Maple Leaf"

    11
    149
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    ERNIE

    59A ___ Davis, first African-American to win a Heisman

    9
    163
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    TUNE

    49D Get ready to play, say

    9
    84
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    LOON

    2D Screwball

    9
    81
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    SATAN

    37A Character in Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered"

    9
    81
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    SLOW

    11D Not busy

    8
    64
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    YOGA

    38A "Salute to the sun" discipline

    7
    65
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    SKEE

    52D ___-Ball

    6
    61
  24. 24
    HAUL

    12D Cart

    6
    46
  25. 25
    NELL

    46A 1994 Jodie Foster role

    4
    78
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    LENIN

    40A Red head?

    4
    70
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    TONAL

    27D Having harmony

    4
    49
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    JIG

    58D It's often said to be "up"

    4
    19
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    PASTAS

    51A Corkscrews and bow ties

    4
    19
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    GOBANANAS

    14A Wig out

    4
    11
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    CAVE

    21A Locale for Osama bin Laden

    3
    43
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    HAJI

    5A Observant Muslim, at times

    3
    22
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    SSTS

    55D Onetime J.F.K. arrivals

    2
    184
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    ELPASO

    44D Sun Bowl city

    2
    48
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    CAROM

    33A Have a reflection?

    2
    36
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    NIECES

    15D Some family reuners

    2
    30
  37. 37
    GMA

    57D TV-over-breakfast inits.

    2
    27
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    FRANCE

    29D Essential part of a grand tour

    2
    15
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    ACTSON

    18D Follows, as advice

    2
    14
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    YUL

    38D Broadway's Brynner

    1
    42
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    AGRO

    1D Soil: Prefix

    1
    39
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    ORIGIN

    43D Where the x and y axes meet

    1
    20
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    ELATION

    23D "I won the lottery!" feeling

    1
    17
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    LILACS

    41D Subject for Chagall and Cassatt

    1
    14
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    SERGEI

    37D Composer Prokofiev

    1
    13
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    PETITES

    47A Dress shop section

    1
    8
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    ATTY

    13D Case worker: Abbr.

    0
    69
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    ASIT

    54D ___ were

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    41
  49. 49
    LOGON

    31D Prepare to tweet, say

    0
    28
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    SARG

    35D Puppeteer Tony

    0
    21
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    PAGO

    62A When repeated, capital city of 11,000

    0
    17
  52. 52
    ANEND

    61A Bring to ___

    0
    15
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    HANNAH

    5D Palindromic woman's name

    0
    15
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    ITNO

    36A "Pay ___ mind"

    0
    12
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    VACANT

    22D Unoccupied

    0
    11
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    ONETEN

    19A A bit past lunch hour

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    10
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    ILLAT

    16A ___ ease

    0
    9
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    LEOXI

    30D Pope with a 27-day pontificate

    0
    9
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    LUXOR

    41A Egypt's Temple of ___

    0
    7
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    ISLS

    8D Lanai and Maui: Abbr.

    0
    6
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    NOTIF

    26D "___ I can help it!"

    0
    6
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    MASHA

    9A One of the sisters in Chekhov's "Three Sisters"

    0
    5
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    ALKANE

    10D Saturated hydrocarbon

    0
    4
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    BOOBS debut

    32A Fools

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    3
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    LOATHED debut

    40D Couldn't take

    0
    2
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    ROLLINGBLACKOUT debut

    17A Utility's power-saving stratagem

    0
    2
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    FLOORTOCEILING debut

    42A Fully, in a way

    0
    1
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    IMISSEDIT debut

    60A "That blew right by me"

    0
    1
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    LAUGHINGJACKASS debut

    56A Kookaburra

    0
    1
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    MICROHM debut

    9D Tiny electrical measure

    0
    1
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    ONTHEHALFSHELL debut

    25A How oysters may be served

    0
    1
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    SCRAWLY debut

    20A Like doodles

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    1