Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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   TEE

   30A Ball-bearing article

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   ALAS

   8D Preceder of a bit of bad news

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   TESS

   29A Literary title character called "a pure woman"

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   ENTS

   26A Fangorn Forest race

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   NAPE

   7D It's often cleaned up by a barber

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   TEX

   28D Handle on a ranch

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   ALIBABA

   15A Noted password user

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   SATIN

   24D Like some bedding

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    DOOM

    31A Alarmist's topic

    3
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    LATHE

    27A What may make you bats?

    3
    40
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    CASK

    37A Port container

    3
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    SCENERY

    55A Trees, hills, etc.

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    SEDATES

    35D Calms down

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    RELYON

    46A Use for support

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    LINEONE

    16A Start of a form to fill out

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    ANIMATE

    51A Get moving

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    SHEAF

    25D Unit for 14-Down

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    28
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    USENET

    21A One of its groups is rec.puzzles

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20. 19
    MASTER

    5D Be able to nail

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    DURANTE

    31D Entertainer with the gag reply "What elephant?"

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    SCOOTER

    39D Two-wheeler

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    ENDURES

    13D Gets through

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    OLDSTER

    33D Person getting way up there?

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    9
25. 24
    ADOPTER

    8A Mother who never had a delivery?

    1
    5
26. 25
    DIDTIME debut

    9D Was a joint tenant?

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    5
27. 26
    JACCUSE

    1D 1898 Émile Zola letter

    1
    5
28. 27
    NEDS

    48D ABC newsman Potter and others

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    ALSORAN

    47A One not seated?

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30. 29
    DERIDE

    42D Put down

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31. 30
    ADDENDA

    18A Extras

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    KENNEDY

    40D Castro's "enemy to whom we had become accustomed"

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    INSURE

    22A Have covered

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    SIXAM

    35A Midpoint of morning watch

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    EARLESS

    54A Like many seals

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    REAPERS

    14D Combining workers

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    REWIRE

    44D Make some new connections in

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38. 37
    ONDINE

    10D 1939 Giraudoux play

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    PEERSAT

    11D Tries to make out

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    TREADED

    52A Like tractors

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    ABUTTAL

    6D Adjacency

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    ALROSEN

    2D 1953 A.L. M.V.P. who played for the Indians

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    SMEARER

    25A Dirty campaigner

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    MORONIC debut

    36D Dumb

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    COLETTE

    19A "Chéri" novelist, 1920

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    FORONCE debut

    43A As a welcome change

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    JAVAMAN

    1A Homo found in 1891

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    4
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    MAYORAL

    34D Kind of campaign

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    ONELIRA

    32D A pound of Turkey?

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50. 49
    PIRATED debut

    53A Stole

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51. 50
    STIRSUP

    20A Foments

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    ABSENTS

    4D Withdraws (oneself)

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    COLEMAN

    37D Company whose logo is a lantern

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    REDYED debut

    45A Brown, then red, then brown again, maybe

    0
    3
55. 54
    VIOLENT

    3D Wroth

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    PAPS debut

    49D Dads, in dialect

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    SENTRAS debut

    23A Alternatives to Civics

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    TONSURE

    12D Clerical clipping

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    UNLADEN

    41A Empty, at a port, say

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    ANYRATE debut

    38D Whatever happens, after "at"

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    1
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    CROSSUP debut

    17A Deceive

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    1
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    NITRITE debut

    50A Meat curer

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    1
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    POWERON debut

    49A Start up, as electronic equipment

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